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List of collections

  • AlgaTerra has the collection(s):
      AlgaTerra
    • Contact: Dr. Regine Jahn, Wolf-Henning Kusber
    • Description: Algal observations, specimens, and strain information, provided by the AlgaTerra Information System.
  • AlgaTerraMovies has the collection(s):
      AlgaTerraMovies
    • Contact: Dr. Oliver Skibbe
    • Description: Movies of living freshwater micro algae, produced for the AlgaTerra Information System for Micro Algal Biodiversity
  • Algaterra Types has the collection(s):
      Algaterra Types
    • Contact: Dr. Regine Jahn, Wolf-Henning Kusber
    • Description: Nomenclatural types and original material of algal names. Data from B, BHUPM, BRM and other resources (literature, original data).
  • BoBO - Botanic Garden Berlin BDI Observations has the collection(s):
      BoBO - Botanic Garden Berlin BDI Observations
    • Contact: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem, Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics
  • BoGART has the collection(s):
      BoGART
    • Description: Accession database of the Berlin Botanic Garden.
  • Bridel Herbar has the collection(s):
      Bridel Herbar
    • Contact: Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 114195 Berlin, Germany
    • Description: The herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B) contains as one of its historical collections the moss herbarium of Bridel. Fortunately, this collection was separated from the main herbarium during the Second World War, and therefore escaped the destruction of the Berlin Botanic Museum in 1943. The Bridel herbarium comprises 1006 folders with more than 3000 moss specimens including many types collected by Bridel, Bruch, Funck, Hornschuch, Humboldt, Pylaie, Schwaegrichen and other bryologists of the early 19th century.
  • Christopher Walker collection of Glomeromycotan fungi has the collection(s):
      Christopher Walker collection of Glomeromycotan fungi
    • Contact: Dr Chris Walker
    • Description: The collection of fungi, mainly members of the Glomeromycota, consists of voucher specimens and records relating to some three decades of research into the taxonomy and systematics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi . Most of the specimens are held in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E), though more recent ones may still be retained personally by Chris Walker pending their deposit in the herbarium. The vouchers mainly consist of spores mounted in polyvinyl-alcohol lactophenol (PVL) or polyvinyl-alcohol lacto glycerol (PVLG), with or without the addition of reagents (principally Melzer's reagent) and dyes (e.g., trypan blue, ink). The organisms have been collected by many different people too numerous to mention, and their contributionis acknowledged with thanks. Some are of importance because they are type specimens, and some are voucher records for published work. Some records of types are virtual, being merely pointers to the specimens held in other herbaria.
  • Desmidiaceae Engels has the collection(s):
      Desmidiaceae Engels
    • Contact: Dr. Monika Engels
    • Description: A new record of reference material of the Desmidiaceae of Germany was compiled, using the databank “Specify”. Aim of the project was to summarize and digitalize the data of the dried and otherwise preserved specimens stored in the German herbaria as well as of the living strains, cultured in culture collections. Many of the references are completed by figures of the labels or by scanned micrographs from preparations for the light- or scanning microscopes.
  • Desmidiaceae Mollenhauer has the collection(s):
      Desmidiaceae Mollenhauer
    • Contact: Prof. Dr. Dieter Mollenhauer
    • Description: A new record of reference material of the Desmidiaceae of Germany was compiled, using the databank “Specify”. Aim of the project was to summarize and digitalize the data of the dried and otherwise preserved specimens stored in the German herbaria as well as of the living strains, cultured in culture collections. Many of the references are completed by figures of the labels or by scanned micrographs from preparations for the light- or scanning microscopes.
  • Desmidiaceae Rostock has the collection(s):
      Desmidiaceae Rostock
    • Contact: Prof. Dr. H. Schubert
    • Description: Culture collection of Desmidiaceae contained in the collections of the University of Rostock.
  • ENBI-Dataset of GART-GloBIS has the collection(s):
      ENBI-Dataset of GART-GloBIS
    • Contact: Christoph Häuser
    • Description: This database is a demonstrating database containing a data sample from the more comprehensive GART/GloBIS database
  • Flora exsiccata Bavarica has the collection(s):
      Flora exsiccata Bavarica
    • Contact: Dr. Anton Schmidt
    • Description: The herbarium "Flora exsiccata Bavarica" contains 2000 vascular plants collected between 1898 and 1930. It was published by the Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft as a reference collection to the Bavarian Flora.
  • GEO Biodiversity Day has the collection(s):
      GEO Biodiversity Day
    • Description: Database compiled in the course of the GEO Biodiversity Day on June 10/11 2005 containing observations made within a 24 hour period in the Tiergarten, Berlin. The aim is to register all existing species in this area.
  • Harpactus Shuckard has the collection(s):
      Harpactus Shuckard
    • Contact: Toshko Ljubomirov
    • Description: The database lists 448 specimens belonging to 16 species of genus Harpactus Shuckard, 1837 having their depository at the entomological collections of the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden (The Netherlands) and the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid (Spain). Harpactus, predominantly Holarctic genus with 73 recently valid species displays both great diversity and abundance in arid regions and includes many “problem“ species which are ill defined as a separate species and/or have never been recognized after appearing of their first descriptions. Those circumstances bring the attention the researchers to put whole members of the genus under revision. Such as revision, formally started in 2005 with the exploration over the Harpactus materials in the Zoologisches Museum an der Humboldt-Universitat in Berlin (Germany) already results in some particular outputs one of which is the present database. Included species in the data base are these which are morphologically recognized as a valid species without any doubt.
  • Herbarium Berolinense has the collection(s):
      Herbarium Berolinense
    • Description: The herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (herbarium acronym: B) is the largest in Germany and holds a collection of more than 3.5 million preserved specimens. All plant groups – flowering plants, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and algae, as well as fungi and lichens – are represented in the collections which are worldwide in scope. Associated with the general herbarium are special collections of dried fruits and seeds, wood samples, and specimens preserved in alcohol. The collections of the herbarium are growing constantly through field research conducted by staff, and through gifts, acquisitions, and exchanges of specimens from other herbaria
  • Herbarium Senckenbergianum Görlitz (GLM) has the collection(s):
      Herbarium Senckenbergianum Görlitz (GLM)
    • Contact: Karsten Wesche
    • Description: The "Herbarium Lusaticum" represents the flora of Upper Lusatia with 47,000 specimens of vascular plants collected over a period of 200 years. About 45,000 specimens of the "Herbarium Lusaticum" are digitised in the collection database.
  • Herbarium Willing has the collection(s):
      Herbarium Willing
    • Contact: Dr. Eckhard Willing
    • Description: The “Herbarium Willing” is a private Phanerogam collection of Eckhard Willing. The collection is focussed on Greece and central Europe and consists of more then 150.000 specimens which are successively inserted and barcoded at the BGBM (Herbarium B).
  • Lichen Herbarium Berlin has the collection(s):
      Lichen Herbarium Berlin
    • Contact: Dr. Harrie Sipman
    • Description: This database contains label information for about 71,000 specimens (anno 2006) of lichens preserved in the herbarium of the Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, acronym B. It represents about a quarter of the lichen holdings and contains mainly recent acquisitions, in particular such resulting from own fieldwork. It is designed to allow search for specimens for DNA research and to trace specimens renamed after publication.
  • Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Botanical Collection has the collection(s):
      Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Botanical Collection
    • Contact: Dr. Carsten Renker
    • Description: The herbarium MNHM contains about 27.000 specimens. Special collections of 5.000 each are the herbarium of Herbert Frankenhäuser from Rwanda (c. 5000 specimens), the Herbarium of Albert Oesau from Rhineland-Palatinate(c. 5000 specimens), and the collection of mosses and liverworts from Ruprecht Düll (c. 10.000 specimens). Meinhard Grubert gathered Podostemaceae (preserved in alcohol) from waterfalls in Venezuela. A worldwide seed and fruit collection with 16.500 specimens came from Ulrich Hecker. In 2009 the remaining parts of the Herbarium of the University of Cologne (KOELN) were transfered to Mainz. This herbarium contains vouchers from the Rhineland which were collected at the beginning of the 20th century by Paul Thyssen, Ludwig Laven and August Schlickum. Another important historical collection is (the part of) the Herbarium Ludwig Geisenheyner which came to Mainz in 1990. This collection contains approx. 3.500 specimens of Pteridophyta, Poaceae and Caryophyllaceae.
      Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Zoological Collection
    • Contact: Dr. Carsten Renker
    • Description: The zoological collection of the Mainz Natural History Museum / State Collection of Natural History of Rhineland-Palatinate is the largest in Rhineland-Palatinate and holds approx. 750.000 preserved specimens. The most comprehensive inventory exists for the insects (entomological collections) including the butterflies (Lepidoptera) with the collections of Erich Bettag, Heinz Falkner, August Jung, Jürgen Lay, Otfried Legler, Helga Luckenbach, Manfred Persohn, Klaus Rose as well as Dieter and Paul Schulz. The true bugs (Heteroptera) are represented by the collections of Hannes Günther and Viktor Zebe. The beetles (Coleoptera) were collected by Erich Bettag, Frank Köhler and Viktor Zebe (in this case exclusively weevils). Concerning flies (Diptera) the museum has the largest individual collection based on the hoverflies (Syrphidae) of Franz Malec. The Hymenoptera are documented based on collections of Klaus Cölln, Andrea Jakubzik and Franz Malec (Vespidae). Vertebrates - mainly mammals and birds - are represented by 10.000 preserved specimens. The collection includes mounted specimens, specimens skins, bones, eggs, and bird nests. The most relevant collection is the one of Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger which is conserved on behalf of the Ingelheimer Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz. The Invertebrate collection contains 40.000 specimens including collections in the frame of the regular survey of the river Rhine, the mollusc collection (material from Rhineland-Palatinate collected Peter Subai as well as Birgit, Waltrauf & Paul Schnell, freshwater mussels collected by Jürgen H. Jungbluth). Some marine molluscs were provided by Ragnar Kinzelbach, who also deposited his collection of scorpiones at the museum.
  • Pollichia Pilzherbar has the collection(s):
      Pollichia Pilzherbar
    • Contact: POLLICHIA, Verein für Naturforschung und Landespflege e.V.
    • Description: The mycological collection of the POLLICHIA at the Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde in Bad Dürkheim (Germany) comprises about 3500 specimens, originating from all systematic groups. All taxa so far identified from the Palatinate (southern Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany) are represented in the collection with individual vouchers. These vouchers have been collected since 1810 and document a period of about 200 years of regional mycological research.
  • PonTaurus collection has the collection(s):
      PonTaurus collection
    • Description: Plant specimens gathered in the Toroslar mountain range of southern Turkey and the Pontic mountain range in north eastern torkey in 1999. The collection mainly covers grass vegetation plots of the subalpine level. It was collected together with many more observation records for vegetational studies applying phytosociological analysis. The resulting thesis was released in the public domain and is available at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/VegetationskundlicheUntersuchungenInDerHochgebirgsregionDerBolkar">http://www.archive.org/details/VegetationskundlicheUntersuchungenInDerHochgebirgsregionDerBolkar</a>. Specimens have been deposited at the Berlin Botanical Garden Herbarium (B) with duplicates send to the Istanbul herbarium and the private collection of Gerald Parolly who supervised this work.
  • Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Herbarium has the collection(s):