updated: 22.03.2021
In our collection we preserve appr. 94,500 specimens of 4,000 species that represent approximately 2/3 of the lichen species of the world. Only one third of our material originate from Hungary, the other two thirds of them were collected abroad.
The value of the collection is reflected not only by the large number of specimens, but also by the remarkable amount of type specimens. The genera of the collection were arranged in taxonomic order (Zahlbruckner’s system), however, we are also concerned with alphabetical ordering according to modern nomenclature applied in most of the great lichen collections all over the World.
Lichen collection's history
Staff
Curator: László Lőkös
Preparator: Bernadett Döme
Collection size
Core collection: 98,080 specimens (representing ca 4,000 species)
Type collection: 1,311 specimens
Checklists
Checklist of lichens of Hungary by Verseghy 1994 (714 species)
Revised checklist of Hungarian lichenised and lichenicolous fungi by Lőkös & Farkas 2009 (866+56 species)
Inventory order
Cabinet catalogue (and inventory number)
Availability
Locality data of the Hungarian specimens (29,750) and the types (1,311) are in searchable database (CDS-microISIS and MS Excel).
List of types (A–L), (M–X) [link,
E-mail: László Lőkös: lokos.laszlo@nhmus.hu
Although the majority of our type material basically consist of the types from Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik, Ödön Szatala and Klára Verseghy, we have a large number of items that were obtained by exhange from abroad. Currently our inventory accounts for 1,311 specimens, half of which are holotypes. The list of the types (from A to L and from M to X) is available via our printed catalogue or internet as well.
Verseghy, K. (1964): Typen-Verzeichnis der Flechtensammlung in der Botanischen Abteilung des Ungarischen Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums. – Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest, 146 pp.
Verseghy, K. (1968): Nachtrag I. zum „Typenverzeichnis der Flechtensammlung in der Botanischen Abteilung des Ungarischen Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums”. – Fragmenta Botanica 6(1–4): 41–55.
Verseghy, K. (1974): Nachtrag II. zum „Typenverzeichnis der Flechtensammlung in der Botanischen Abteilung des Ungarischen Naturwissen-schaftlichen Museums”. – Studia bot. hung. 9: 23–29.
Verseghy, K. (1981): Nachtrag III. zum „Typenverzeichnis der Flechtensammlung in der Botanischen Abteilung des Ungarischen Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums”. – Studia bot. hung. 15: 45–47.