Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
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University Museum of Bergen (BG)
The lichen collection at herbarium BG consists of 95000 fully computerized specimens. About 51000 are from Norway. Important material is also from and the Arctic (Svalbard with Bjørnøya), Antarctica (Mainland Antarctica, Argentine Islands, Bouvet Island, Gough Island, Kerguelen, Prince Edward Islands, and South Orkney Islands), and North-America. The herbarium includes material collected by, e.g., N.M. Blytt, T. Engelskjøn, Th.M. Fries, G. Gaarder, J.J. Havaas, J.I. Johnsen, P.M. Jørgensen, W. Maas, N.G. Moe, J.M. Norman, D.O. Øvstedal, C. Printzen, T. Spribille, and T. Tønsberg.
Curator of lichens: Tor Tønsberg, tor.tonsberg@um.uib.no
Homepage: http://www.uib.no/en/universitymuseum
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 95,102 specimen records
- 65,813 (69%) georeferenced
- 86,107 (91%) identified to species
- 163 families
- 751 genera
- 4,840 species
- 4,944 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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