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  • Number of Specimens

    446000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants
  • Date Founded

    1802

  • Updated

    10/06/2024

  • Associated Institution

    Associated garden: Liverpool University Botanic Garden, Ness, Neston, South Wirral L64 4AY, England.

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    BCKN;
    BM timber collections;
    CHELB in 1963;
    CHT in 1963;
    CRBY (2013);
    economic botany collections of Liverpool Commodity Trades Association and Liverpool Salvage Corps;
    EXR (25 000 specimens) in 1993;
    fluid-preserved marine algal collections from Marine Biological Station, Port Erin, Isle of Man.;
    LIVC in 1909;
    Liverpool Chemists Association;
    LIVNFC;
    LIVU (130 000 specimens);
    LPL;
    LRL;
    pharmaco-botany collections of Liverpool John Moores University;
    PTN;
    slide collections of diatoms from Liverpool Microscopical Society;
    SPT (2013);
    SPTS (2013);
    TOD

  • Important Collectors

    J. Banks, A. Bivona-Bernardi, F. Boott, J. Boswarva, W. Boult, J. E. Bowman, J. Bradbury, R. Brown, F. Buchanan-Hamilton, A. Dallman, E. Davall, J. Dickinson, J. Dickson, J. W. Ellis, P. Forsskål, J. G. A. Forster, J. R. Forster, J. Harriman, T. von Heldreich, B. Heyne, V. H. Heywood, W. J. Hooker, F. J. Hutchison, N. J. Jacquin, J. G. Klein, J. G. König, E. F. Linton, W. R. Linton, F. P. Marrat, F. Masson, H. McAllister, A. Menzies, I. B. Molineri, G. H. E. Muhlenberg, T. Nuttall, T. Palgrave, P. S. Pallas, F. T. Pursh, T. W. Naylor-Beckett, J. Ralfs, A. E. Ratcliffe, W. Roscoe, J. P. Rottler, W. Roxburgh, J. F. Royle, G. Russell, W. P. Schimper, J. C. Schleicher, M.R.D. Seaward, J. Shepherd, J. Shillito, F. W. Sieber, J. E. Smith, R. Spruce, J. E. Stocks, W. S. Sullivant, W. Swainson, O. P. Swartz, C. P. Thunberg, W. G. Travis, T. Velley, D. Villars, N. Wallich, J. R. Wellsted, J. White