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Lichen herbaria store preserved specimens of lichenized (and often lichenicolous) fungi. The main tasks of lichen (and all other) herbaria are as follows: Taxonomic studies must be at least in part based upon herbarium specimens, of which the so called type-specimens are the most important. It is on these that descriptions of new taxa are based, and they serve in perpetuity as the reference for these names. For a new species to be validly published, the herbarium in which the type specimens are lodged must be specified. Locations, contents, acronyms etc. of the world’s public herbaria can be found in “Index Herbariorum“, compiled by Holmgren et al. 1990. A searchable internet-version is available at: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/.
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Obermayer, W. (2002). Management of a Lichen Herbarium. In: Kranner, I.C., Beckett, R.P., Varma, A.K. (eds) Protocols in Lichenology. Springer Lab Manuals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56359-1_29
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