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
  • 45,748 (83%) identified to species
  • 370 families
  • 961 genera
  • 3,752 species
  • 3,939 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anema (11)
  • Cryptothele (3)
  • Digitothyrea (17)
  • Ephebe (28)
  • Euopsis (11)
  • Gonohymenia (4)
  • Harpidium (5)
  • Heppia (20)
  • Lempholemma (55)
  • Leprocollema (1)
  • Lichina (22)
  • Lichinella (17)
  • Paulia (37)
  • Peccania (23)
  • Phloeopeccania (6)
  • Phylliscum (8)
  • Porocyphus (11)
  • Pseudopaulia (2)
  • Psorotichia (28)
  • Pterygiopsis (4)
  • Pyrenocarpon (6)
  • Pyrenopsis (10)
  • Synalissa (11)
  • Thelignya (2)
  • Thermutis (33)
  • Thyrea (17)