The Freeman Herbarium at Auburn University - Lichens (AUA-Lichens)

The Freeman Herbarium (AUA) contains over 90,000 specimens of vascular and non-vascular plants including, over 80,000 vascular plants, about 1800 bryophytes, over 4000 lichens, and about 3000 specimens of fungi.

Curator: Curtis Hansen, hansecj@auburn.edu, 344-844-1630 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3660-0548)
Director: Leslie Goertzen, goertlr@auburn.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
The John D. Freeman Herbarium
Auburn University Museum of Natural History
101 Rouse Life Sciences Bldg.
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Auburn, AL   36849
United States
Collection Statistics
  • 4,065 specimen records
  • 3,669 (90%) georeferenced
  • 1,959 (48%) with images (2,064 total images)
  • 3,850 (95%) identified to species
  • 79 families
  • 255 genera
  • 780 species
  • 780 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anzia (4)
  • Bryoria (2)
  • Bulbothrix (12)
  • Canoparmelia (67)
  • Cetraria (1)
  • Crespoa (4)
  • Evernia (3)
  • Everniastrum (1)
  • Flavoparmelia (42)
  • Hypogymnia (4)
  • Hypotrachyna (65)
  • Imshaugia (3)
  • Letharia (1)
  • Melanelia (1)
  • Melanelixia (2)
  • Melanohalea (1)
  • Menegazzia (3)
  • Myelochroa (48)
  • Neoprotoparmelia (2)
  • Parmelia (25)
  • Parmeliopsis (1)
  • Parmotrema (243)
  • Platismatia (12)
  • Pleurosticta (1)
  • Protoparmelia (1)
  • Pseudevernia (7)
  • Pseudoparmelia (4)
  • Punctelia (80)
  • Squamaria (1)
  • Tuckermanella (1)
  • Tuckermannopsis (12)
  • Usnea (128)
  • Usnocetraria (1)
  • Vulpicida (1)
  • Xanthoparmelia (33)