Erik Acharius lichen collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Finnish Museum of Natural History on Mar 18, 2024 Finnish Museum of Natural History
Publication date:
18 March 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Acharius Herbarium (H-ACH) is separately kept at the Botanical Museum of the Finnish Museum of Natural History. It includes about 5500 specimens of lichens, brought together by the Swedish lichenologist Erik Acharius (1757-1819). Acharius, a pupil of Carl von Linné, was a Swedish physician, professor and knight and is known as the "Father of Lichenology". The collection is one of the most significant biological collections in our university. It contains hundreds of type specimens, including those described in Acharius's book "Lichenographia Universalis" (1810). No loans are normally sent out from this collection but visitors are allowed to study and photograph the material. The material primarily derives from Sweden, but also from other countries. It was bought from Sweden in 1834.

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6c781d5f-a189-497b-a78d-5c2d7b41cb6a.  Finnish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Finland.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Sanna Laine
  • Originator
  • Research Assistant
Finnish Museum of Natural History
  • Unioninkatu 44
00014 Helsinki
FI
  • +358-9-1911
Hannu Saarenmaa
  • Metadata Provider
  • Project Manager
Digitisation Centre of the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the University of Eastern Finland
  • Länsikatu 15
80101 Joensuu
FI
  • +358-50-4779668
Soili Stenroos
  • Point Of Contact
  • Professor
Finnish Museum of Natural History
  • Unioninkatu 44
00014 Helsinki
FI
  • +358-9-1911

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Fungi
Phylum Lichens

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 6c781d5f-a189-497b-a78d-5c2d7b41cb6a
https://ipt.laji.fi/resource?r=acharius