Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
- building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University (FH)
The Farlow Herbarium houses nearly 1,400,000 specimens of lichenized and non-lichenized fungi, bryophytes, and algae. The collections are world-wide in scope; particular strengths are in bound, indexed exsiccatae, bryophytes and fungi from Asia, entomogenous fungi, Antarctic lichens, and special "authors" herbaria which contain many type specimens.
Contacts: Michaela Schmull, mschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
Homepage: https://huh.harvard.edu/pages/herbaria
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 March 2023
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/FH_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Access Rights: https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain
Collection Statistics
- 66,018 specimen records
- 3,553 (5%) georeferenced
- 58,068 (88%) with images (105,878 total images)
- 58,445 (89%) identified to species
- 156 families
- 600 genera
- 4,765 species
- 4,793 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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