Description
The geographic focus of the lichen collection is Norway with Svalbard, and this make up about 80 % of the collection. Most of the specimens are registered in the database. A significant part of the collection is from the period after 1980 and includes many interesting specimens from the boreal rainforest of Central Norway.
Most specimens from outside Norway are from the Nordic countries. From other parts of the world the specimens from Africa collected by Ove A. Høeg are of special interest.
The genera Bryoria and Cladonia as well as pin lichens in a wide sense, i.e. genera like Calicium, Chaenotheca, Sclerophora etc are well represented in the collection.
About 200 type specimens are included in the collection.
Important exsiccatae includes: Cladoniae exsiccatae, Heinrich Sandstede Lichenes selecti Scandinavici exsiccati. Adolf Hugo Magnusson
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 60,308 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.