LISU Lichen collection

Herbarium LISU was established in 1839 as part of Escola Politécnica, but its collections include earlier material from the Ajuda Royal Cabinet The Lichen Collection available through this resource includes about 3540 records of preserved specimens from Portugal, maintained at the LISU Herbarium, and collected from the period 1848-2007. The total number of lichen specimens existing in the herbarium is about 51000, and includes the Carlos N. Tavares collection. The digitising process is ongoing, which will result in new additions to this resource in the near future.

Identification

Alternate Identifier: 85bcaab2-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a

Publication Date: 2020-11-22

Title: LISU Lichen collection

Abstract: Herbarium LISU was established in 1839 as part of Escola Politécnica, but its collections include earlier material from the Ajuda Royal Cabinet The Lichen Collection available through this resource includes about 3540 records of preserved specimens from Portugal, maintained at the LISU Herbarium, and collected from the period 1848-2007. The total number of lichen specimens existing in the herbarium is about 51000, and includes the Carlos N. Tavares collection. The digitising process is ongoing, which will result in new additions to this resource in the near future.

Dataset Language: ENGLISH

Dataset Creator: MNHNC - Palmira Carvalho (Lichens curator)

Lisboa
,
PORTUGAL

Metadata Provider: Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Rui Figueira (Researcher)

Lisboa
,
PORTUGAL

Metadata Provider: MNHNC - Palmira Carvalho (Lichens curator)

Lisboa
,
PORTUGAL

Dataset Contact: MNHNC - Palmira Carvalho (Lichens curator)

Lisboa
,
PORTUGAL

Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml)

Occurrence

Keywords (GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml)

Specimen

Keywords (NA)

Lichens
LISU
Portugal

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description: The specimens were collected on Portugal mainland

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate: -9.36

East Bounding Coordinate: -6.108

North Bounding Coordinate: 42.521

South Bounding Coordinate: 36.985

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

End Date

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage: All lichen specimens were identified to genus or species.

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Kingdom

Taxonomic Rank Value: Fungi

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp: 2021-11-29T09:06:07Z

Citation: Carvalho P, Figueira R (2020). LISU Lichen collection. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5yoywc accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-11-29.

Physical

Object Name: GBIF Occurrence Download

Character Encoding: UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name: Darwin Core Archive

Distribution

Online

URL: http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0012304-180131172636756.zip

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