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Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (O)

The collection consists of about 350,000 lichen specimens. We have important collections from Norway (120,000, fully computerized), Iceland, the Arctic (especially Greenland, Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Svalbard, and Novaya Zemlya), Macaronesia, and East Africa (especially Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda). The material includes, e.g., the collections of Mathias Numsen Blytt (1789-1862), Søren Christian Sommerfelt (1794-1838), Niels Green Moe (1812-1892), Johannes Musæus Norman (1823-1903; part), Bernt Lynge (1884-1942), Eilif Dahl (1916-1993), and Hildur Krog (1922-2014). So far about 1,500 lichen types have been identified.
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Herbarium O
Natural History Museum University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1172, Blindern
Oslo,    NO-0318
Norway
+(47)22851620
https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/collections/index.html

Collection Statistics

  • 277,266 specimen records
  • 155,454 (56%) georeferenced
  • 251,571 (91%) identified to species
  • 174 families
  • 832 genera
  • 6,975 species
  • 7,188 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 December 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Oslo GBIF IPT Import
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