Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Cryptogams (PC)

The herbarium of the museum, referred to by code PC, includes a large number of important collections amongst its 2 000 000 cryptogams (algae, bryophyta, fungi and lichens) specimens. These collections are constitued by a general herbarium and numerous particular collections. Among these last, Allorge, Bescherelle, Bourdot & Galzin, Heim, Hue, Montagne, Romagnesi, Sauvageau, Thuret & Bornet herbaria.
Curator: Sébastien Leblond
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 May 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Collection Statistics
  • 142,936 specimen records
  • 4,894 (3%) georeferenced
  • 129,602 (91%) identified to species
  • 108 families
  • 975 genera
  • 17,935 species
  • 20,543 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anisothecium (124)
  • Aongstroemia (183)
  • Arctoa (18)
  • Atractylocarpus (45)
  • Atrichum (2)
  • Bizotia (2)
  • Braunfelsia (9)
  • Brothera (10)
  • Brotherobryum (4)
  • Bryohumbertia (53)
  • Bryoporteria (1)
  • Bryotestua (3)
  • Camptodontium (10)
  • Campylochaetium (2)
  • Campylopodiella (3)
  • Campylopodium (50)
  • Campylopus (3978)
  • Cardotia (48)
  • Cecalyphum (1)
  • Ceratodon (28)
  • Cheilothela (9)
  • Chorisodontium (13)
  • Cladophascum (2)
  • Cladopodanthus (7)
  • Cnestrum (3)
  • Cryptodicranum (1)
  • Cynodontium (248)
  • Dichodontium (156)
  • Dicnemoloma (6)
  • Dicranella (1136)
  • Dicranodontium (198)
  • Dicranoloma (378)
  • Dicranoweisia (269)
  • Dicranum (2646)
  • Didymodon (3)
  • Diobelon (2)
  • Eucamptodontopsis (3)
  • Holodontium (4)
  • Holomitrium (406)
  • Hygrodicranum (4)
  • Illecebraria (2)
  • Kiaeria (104)
  • Leptotrichella (6)
  • Leucobryum (1495)
  • Leucoloma (1610)
  • Mesotus (4)
  • Metzlerella (6)
  • Metzleria (4)
  • Microcampylopus (28)
  • Microdus (134)
  • Muscoherzogia (2)
  • Nanomitriopsis (5)
  • Ochrobryum (66)
  • Oncophorus (248)
  • Oreas (9)
  • Oreoweisia (34)
  • Orthodicranum (174)
  • Paraleucobryum (134)
  • Parisia (19)
  • Pilopogon (85)
  • Pocsiella (1)
  • Poecilophyllum (3)
  • Polymerodon (2)
  • Pseudephemerum (48)
  • Schistomitrium (21)
  • Schliephackea (3)
  • Sclerodontium (3)
  • Sphaerothecium (4)
  • Spirula (5)
  • Sporledera (8)
  • Symblepharis (55)
  • Thysanomitrion (33)
  • Uleopsis (8)
  • Wardia (9)