Consortium of
North American Bryophyte Herbaria
- building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University (FH)
The Farlow Herbarium houses nearly 1,400,000 specimens of lichenized and non-lichenized fungi, bryophytes, and algae. The collections are world-wide in scope; particular strengths are in bound, indexed exsiccatae, bryophytes and fungi from Asia, entomogenous fungi, Antarctic lichens, and special "authors" herbaria which contain many type specimens.
Contacts: Kennedy, Jonathan, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Homepage: https://huh.harvard.edu/pages/herbaria
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 September 2021
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/Harvard_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Access Rights: https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain
Collection Statistics
- 87,887 specimen records
- 570 (0.65%) georeferenced
- 77,207 (88%) with images (95,462 total images)
- 85,126 (97%) identified to species
- 147 families
- 768 genera
- 5,644 species
- 6,600 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
