Herbarium of Umeå University (UME)

Nils Ericson

doi:10.15468/gatdg4

Herbarium of Umeå University (UME)

Citation

Ericson N, Stenman K (2023). Herbarium of Umeå University (UME). Umeå University. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gatdg4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-13.

Description

Herbarium UME is a public research herbarium encompassing approximately 300 000 specimens of vascular plants, mosses, algae, fungi and lichens from all parts of the world, but mainly from northern Sweden. Herbarium UME is run by the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (EMG) at the University of Umeå, Sweden, and is a member of NAMSA (Co-operation Forum for Swedish Natural History Museums). The herbarium was founded in 1968 at the former Department for Ecological Botany. Originally, most material came from donations and exchange. Since then much material has been added from researchers collections, schools, private collections, inventories, local flora projects etc. The collections are still growing, and we are happy to recieve material from any part of Northern Fennoscandia. The aim of Herbarium UME is to preserve plant collections from northern Sweden, to give active support to the botanical exploration of the region and to encourage a proper documentation of the flora in connection with inventories, flora projects and research work. The dataset currently holds about 50000 bryophytes, 22000 lichens, 15000 fungi, 10000 vascular plants, and some algae. About a third of the collection at the herbarium is currently registered in the database.

Taxonomic Coverages

Vascular plants, fungi, bryophytes, lichens, algae

Fungi
common name: Fungi rank: kingdom
Bryophyta
common name: Mosses
Plantae
common name: Plants rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Specimens mainly from northern Sweden, but the herbarium also holds specimens from other parts of the world.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Nils Ericson
originator
position: Researcher
Umeå University
Umeå
SE
email: Nils.Ericson@umu.se

Katarina Stenman
metadata author
position: Curator
Umeå University
Umeå
SE
email: katarina.stenman@umu.se

Manash Shah
administrative point of contact
position: Database Developer
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE
email: manash.shah@nrm.se

Katarina Stenman
administrative point of contact
position: Curator
Umeå University
Umeå
SE
email: katarina.stenman@umu.se

Veronika Johansson
administrative point of contact
position: Node Manager
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
email: veronika.johansson@nrm.se