Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
- building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State University (ISC)
The Ada Hayden Herbarium has the largest collection of Iowa plants and fungi, containing over 600,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens. Functioning primarily as a research facility important for taxonomic studies (occurrence, distribution, and relationships of plants), it is also used for identifying unknown plants. Specimens are loaned to specialists at other institutions around the world to support research. Loans from other institutions allow our researchers access to other herbaria. Recently, herbaria have become a source of materials to use in molecular studies and to support basic research on biodiversity.
Contacts: Deborah Lewis; Jim Colbert, dlewis@iastate.edu; jtcolber@iastate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 06d3d6a4-9436-44ea-92ea-13445d7fa38f
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ISC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 6,593 specimen records
- 1,710 (26%) georeferenced
- 6,396 (97%) identified to species
- 78 families
- 265 genera
- 847 species
- 863 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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