Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University (LSU-Lichens)

Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University, Lichen Collection: ca. 44,000 specimens, particularly from Louisiana, California, throughout North America, and worldwide. Created largely through exchange and collections by Shirley C. Tucker.
Contacts: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager, jkluse@lsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 277e00e1-6282-4ebb-a164-1733d04c99fc
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium
Louisiana State University
131 Life Sciences Bldg.
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA   70803
USA
225-578-8564
Collection Statistics
  • 40,877 specimen records
  • 39,784 (97%) georeferenced
  • 40,795 (100%) with images (49,881 total images)
  • 40,082 (98%) identified to species
  • 150 families
  • 518 genera
  • 4,142 species
  • 4,372 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Ahtiana (8)
  • Alectoria (41)
  • Allantoparmelia (4)
  • Allocetraria (10)
  • Anzia (20)
  • Arctocetraria (2)
  • Arctoparmelia (26)
  • Asahinea (9)
  • Brodoa (3)
  • Bryoria (170)
  • Bulbothrix (144)
  • Canomaculina (11)
  • Canoparmelia (321)
  • Cavernularia (1)
  • Cetraria (128)
  • Cetrariastrum (2)
  • Cetrariella (12)
  • Cetrelia (40)
  • Chondropsis (7)
  • Coelocaulon (5)
  • Cornicularia (53)
  • Dactylina (40)
  • Esslingeriana (4)
  • Evernia (133)
  • Everniastrum (61)
  • Everniopsis (3)
  • Flavocetraria (79)
  • Flavoparmelia (200)
  • Flavopunctelia (80)
  • Himantormia (1)
  • Hypogymnia (413)
  • Hypotrachyna (257)
  • Imshaugia (11)
  • Kaernefeltia (25)
  • Letharia (80)
  • Lethariella (11)
  • Masonhalea (14)
  • Melanelia (233)
  • Melanelixia (5)
  • Melanohalea (3)
  • Menegazzia (130)
  • Myelochroa (81)
  • Neofuscelia (51)
  • Neuropogon (2)
  • Nodobryoria (28)
  • Omphalora (1)
  • Oropogon (23)
  • Pannoparmelia (24)
  • Paraparmelia (5)
  • Parmelia (413)
  • Parmelina (41)
  • Parmelinopsis (174)
  • Parmeliopsis (113)
  • Parmotrema (1542)
  • Phacopsis (5)
  • Platismatia (125)
  • Pleurosticta (3)
  • Protoparmelia (11)
  • Pseudephebe (23)
  • Pseudevernia (86)
  • Pseudoparmelia (72)
  • Punctelia (349)
  • Relicina (5)
  • Rimelia (30)
  • Sulcaria (1)
  • Tuckermanella (3)
  • Tuckermannopsis (139)
  • Tuckermanopsis (2)
  • Usnea (1263)
  • Usnocetraria (9)
  • Vulpicida (83)
  • Xanthomaculina (2)
  • Xanthoparmelia (422)