University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Lichens (NEB)

The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.

Contacts: Thomas Labedz, TLabedz1@unl.edu
Contacts: Robert Zink, rzink2@unl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0dcd0899-9713-4d6b-91b3-d59a565e1a6d
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
C.E. Bessey Herbarium
University of Nebraska State Museum
Morrill Hall
645 North 14th Street
Lincoln, Nebraska   68588-0338
USA
+11(402)472-1607
Collection Statistics
  • 16,956 specimen records
  • 102 (0.6%) georeferenced
  • 16,954 (100%) with images (31,577 total images)
  • 11,409 (67%) identified to species
  • 99 families
  • 291 genera
  • 1,896 species
  • 2,150 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics