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)