The herbarium of the Botanische Staatssammlung München (herbarium acronym: M) comprises about 3.2 million dried specimens of plants and fungi and is systematically arranged. Associated are collections of pickled flowers , microscope slide collections, illustrations of plants and fungi, and dried fruits and seeds. The collections are worldwide in scope, but with particular strengths in the flora of Bavaria and the Alps, the vascular plants of Brazil, Chile, Middle Asia and parts of Africa, as well as in lichens and fungi. The herbarium grows at an average rate of 16,000 specimens a year and is estimated to house about 25% of the known species of the world.

Online since: 10/10/2014
Last update: 14/10/2014

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The Vascular Plant Collection at the Botanische Staatssammlung München Rights as supplied: © Botanische Staatssammlung München

Contacts

Director or head of department:
Susanne Renner
renner@lmu.de
Curator:
Andreas Beck
beck@bsm.mwn.de
Curator:
Andreas Fleischmann
fleischmann@bsm.mwn.de
Curator:
Dagmar Triebel
triebel@bsm.mwn.de
Curator:
Hans-Joachim Esser
esser@bsm.mwn.de