Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
- building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, founded in 1849, is a museum collection of dried, labeled plants of state, national and international importance, which is used extensively for taxonomic and ecological research, as well as for teaching and public service. It contains the world's largest collection of Wisconsin plants, about one-third of its 1,000,000 specimens having been collected within the state. Most of the world's floras are well represented, and the holdings from certain areas, such as the Upper Midwest, eastern North America and western Mexico, are widely recognized as resources of global significance.
Contacts: Kenneth M. Cameron, kmcameron@wisc.edu
Homepage: http://www.botany.wisc.edu/herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 89717c08-38c6-4a2e-9293-7381ea799a99
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/WIS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 151,191 specimen records
- 148,452 (98%) georeferenced
- 144,762 (96%) with images (180,368 total images)
- 140,238 (93%) identified to species
- 201 families
- 966 genera
- 8,485 species
- 8,975 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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