Herbarium Senckenbergianum - Lichens (FR)

Taxonomic Coverage: Fungi worldwide, in particular corticolous, crustose lichens from the Holarctic.
Geography: Worldwide, Hesse, Europe, Mediterranean region, Atlantic islands, Asia, North America, southern South America, Antarctica.

Notes: Updated Dec 2017 (incorporated herbaria). This institute is part of a decentralized institution (Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museums) which also comprises botanical research departments and herbaria in Görlitz (GLM) and Weimar (IQW). For a survey of collections, see H. J. Conert (ed.), Index Collectorum Herbarii Senckenbergiani.- Courier Forschungsinst. Senckenberg 217: 1-201.

Curator of Lichens (FR - Frankfurt): Christian Printzen, christian.printzen@senckenberg.de, +49 69 7542 1154 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-0871-0803)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 March 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 54,792 specimen records
  • 13,039 (24%) georeferenced
  • 45,745 (83%) identified to species
  • 370 families
  • 959 genera
  • 3,750 species
  • 3,937 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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