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
  • Athallia (121)
  • Austroplaca (2)
  • Blastenia (115)
  • Bryoplaca (28)
  • Calogaya (101)
  • Caloplaca (599)
  • Cephalophysis (1)
  • Cerothallia (29)
  • Coppinsiella (1)
  • Dufourea (1)
  • Elenkiniana (25)
  • Flavoplaca (100)
  • Fulgensia (29)
  • Gallowayella (9)
  • Gondwania (4)
  • Gyalolechia (141)
  • Haloplaca (6)
  • Hanstrassia (1)
  • Huea (1)
  • Huneckia (9)
  • Igneoplaca (2)
  • Leproplaca (11)
  • Marchantiana (1)
  • Martinjahnsia (13)
  • Opeltia (1)
  • Oxneria (19)
  • Parvoplaca (3)
  • Pisutiella (8)
  • Polycauliona (99)
  • Pyrenodesmia (50)
  • Rufoplaca (27)
  • Rusavskia (3)
  • Scythioria (4)
  • Seawardiella (9)
  • Solitaria (5)
  • Squamulea (2)
  • Stellarangia (2)
  • Teloschistes (153)
  • Teloschistopsis (1)
  • Upretia (3)
  • Variospora (102)
  • Verrucoplaca (3)
  • Xanthocarpia (17)
  • Xanthomendoza (1)
  • Xanthoria (302)
  • Zeroviella (1)