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
  • Amandinea (2)
  • Anaptychia (131)
  • Heterodermia (168)
  • Hyperphyscia (36)
  • Leucodermia (74)
  • Mischoblastia (31)
  • Mobergia (3)
  • Phaeophyscia (218)
  • Phaeorrhiza (8)
  • Physcia (567)
  • Physciella (7)
  • Physconia (229)
  • Rinodina (367)
  • Rinodinella (14)
  • Tornabea (11)