Übersee-Museum Bremen

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  • Name

    Übersee-Museum Bremen

  • Herbarium Code

    BREM

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Michaela Grein, Keeper, m.grein@uebersee-museum.de

  • Contact

    [49] 421 16038 202
    [49] 421 16038 213
    Fax: [49] 421 16038 99

  • Address

    Herbarium
    Abteilung Naturkunde
    Übersee-Museum Bremen
    Bahnhofsplatz 13
    Bremen 28195
    Germany

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Adventive flora

    Geography: Worldwide, especially northwestern Germany including North Sea Islands, western Mediterranean, and high mountains of Costa Rica

  • Notes

    Updated Aug 2019 (contact numbers). During World War II: small parts of BREM destroyed, others safeguarded by other institutions. Solanum collections of G. Bitter taken to GOET; Juncus collection of F. Buchenau in W; Algae of E. Lemmermann partly destroyed, indetermined material in B for examination; Rutenberg\'s Madagascar types possibly at CSR; most parts of the Lichen collections of Sandstede, W.O. Focke\'s Rubus collection and General Herbarium returned to BREM.

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  • Number of Specimens

    400000

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

    1865

  • Updated

    05/08/2019

  • Important Collectors

    C. G. Baenitz, W. Bertram, G. Bitter, O. Böckeler, A. Bornmüller, F. G. P. Buchenau, A. C. Callier, A. G. Dietrich, J. Dörfler, P. K. H. Dusén, C. F. Ecklon, H. F. A. von Eggers, H. Farenholtz, W. O. Focke, K. G. Hartwig, J. M. Hildebrandt, H. Klebahn, J. A. Kneucker, K. Koldewey, A. Krause, H. Küsel, O. Leege, E. J. Lemmermann, A. Lüderitz, C. Lürssen, P. von Lützelburg, F. K. Mertens, J. L. C. Noeldeke, K. Ochsenius, C. Osten, H. H. Pfeiffer, G. Rohlfs, A. W. Roth, D. C. Rutenberg, J. H. Sandstede, J. G. Schaffner, H. Schinz, R. von Schlagintweit, J. T. Schmalhausen, G. A. Schweinfurth, W. Siehe, P. E. E. Sintenis, J. Steingröver, G. R. Treviranus, L. C. Treviranus, I. Urban, A. Vigener, P. C. Vogl, C. A. Weber, F. Wirtgen, C. Wright, C. L. P. Zeyher