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
  • Adelolecia (7)
  • Bacidia (602)
  • Bacidina (41)
  • Badimia (1)
  • Biatora (494)
  • Biatorina (1)
  • Bibbya (6)
  • Bilimbia (74)
  • Catinaria (16)
  • Cenozosia (1)
  • Cliostomum (70)
  • Coppinsidea (7)
  • Frutidella (30)
  • Herteliana (1)
  • Japewia (14)
  • Kiliasia (18)
  • Lecania (350)
  • Lithocalla (1)
  • Lopezaria (1)
  • Megalaria (36)
  • Niebla (42)
  • Phyllopsora (16)
  • Polyozosia (119)
  • Ramalina (1113)
  • Ramalinopsis (1)
  • Schadonia (1)
  • Thalloidima (21)
  • Toninia (116)
  • Toniniopsis (54)
  • Waynea (3)