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
  • Agonimia (32)
  • Bagliettoa (61)
  • Catapyrenium (109)
  • Clavascidium (10)
  • Dermatocarpon (162)
  • Endocarpon (55)
  • Halospora (3)
  • Henrica (8)
  • Hydropunctaria (20)
  • Involucropyrenium (6)
  • Mastodia (1)
  • Muellerella (23)
  • Normandina (29)
  • Parabagliettoa (17)
  • Phaeospora (6)
  • Phylloblastia (2)
  • Placidiopsis (4)
  • Placidium (10)
  • Placocarpus (9)
  • Placopyrenium (3)
  • Polyblastia (77)
  • Psoroglaena (11)
  • Staurothele (89)
  • Thelidiopsis (1)
  • Thelidium (130)
  • Tichothecium (2)
  • Verrucaria (469)
  • Verruculopsis (9)
  • Wahlenbergiella (6)