Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (O)

The collection consists of about 350,000 lichen specimens. We have important collections from Norway (120,000, fully computerized), Iceland, the Arctic (especially Greenland, Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Svalbard, and Novaya Zemlya), Macaronesia, and East Africa (especially Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda). The material includes, e.g., the collections of Mathias Numsen Blytt (1789-1862), Søren Christian Sommerfelt (1794-1838), Niels Green Moe (1812-1892), Johannes Musæus Norman (1823-1903; part), Bernt Lynge (1884-1942), Eilif Dahl (1916-1993), and Hildur Krog (1922-2014). So far about 1,500 lichen types have been identified.
Contacts: Einar Timdal, curator of lichens, einar.timdal@nhm.uio.no
Curator of Lichens: Einar Timdal, einar.timdal@nhm.uio.no, +(47)22851620 (ORCID #: 0000-0003-4524-0617)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Herbarium O
Natural History Museum University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1172, Blindern
Oslo,    NO-0318
Norway
+(47)22851620
Collection Statistics
  • 274,753 specimen records
  • 150,555 (55%) georeferenced
  • 249,355 (91%) identified to species
  • 172 families
  • 827 genera
  • 6,953 species
  • 7,170 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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