Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
- building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
Lund Botanical Museum (LD)
The scientific collections of Lund Universty Botanical Museum (Herbarium LD) comprise 2.5 million specimens divided into algae & cyanobacteria (102 000), bryophytes (149 000), fungi (63 000), lichens (170 000) and vascular plants (2 000 000). The collections go back to the 18th century and represent more than 250 years of scientific research. Coverage is worldwide with particularly important collections from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Australia.
Museum Director: Ulf Arup, Ulf.Arup@biol.lu.se
Lund Botanical Museum: https://www.biomus.lu.se/en/botany/lichens
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 November 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
- 99,809 specimen records
- 93,538 (94%) georeferenced
- 95,086 (95%) identified to species
- 154 families
- 587 genera
- 5,054 species
- 5,170 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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