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Natural History Museum of Denmark: The Herbarium of Lichens (C-L)

The herbarium includes ca. 266,000 specimens of lichens from all groups and from all over the world. It holds the largest collection of Danish lichens with about 900 species, and the largest collection of Greenland lichens with about 1,000 species. The Danish lichen collection (about 50.000 specimens) have been digitized and are available through http://www.svampeatlas.dk and www.gbif.org.

Contacts: Christian Lange, curator@snm.ku.dk
Homepage: https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/toer-og-vaadsamlinger/botanik/lichen-herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 August 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Collection Statistics
  • 6,957 specimen records
  • 6,864 (99%) georeferenced
  • 6,891 (99%) identified to species
  • 98 families
  • 243 genera
  • 802 species
  • 802 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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