Universität Wien

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  • Name

    Universität Wien

  • Herbarium Code

    WU

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Hermann Voglmayr, hermann.voglmayr@univie.ac.at

  • Contact

    [43] 1 4277 54170
    Fax: [43] 1 4277 9541
    Email: herbarium@univie.ac.at

  • Address

    Herbarium
    Department for Botany und Biodiversity Research
    Faculty of Life Sciences
    Universität Wien
    Rennweg 14
    Wien A-1030
    Austria
    http://herbarium.botanik.univie.ac.at

  • CITES

    AT 020

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: All plant groups, mainly angiosperms

    Geography: Central Europe, Balkan peninsula, southwestern Asia, China, South America, and Africa

  • Notes

    Updated Aug. 2022. Some specimens have been digitized, especially types, and records are available in Virtual Herbaria: https://www.jacq.org/#database. Loan requests for type specimens must state exact details about place of publication, synonyms, type-locality, etc. Collections of the Mycological Society of Austria are part of WU, fully databased and curated and numbered separately as WU-MYC in the Virtual Herbaria database. Requests of all material (WU and WU-MYC) should be addressed to Curator of WU.

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  • Number of Specimens

    1400000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae 20000 700 670
    Bryophytes 400000 700 600
    Fungi/Lichens 100000 43500 15
    Pteridophytes 30000 2000 1000
    Seed Plants 900000 79000 50000
  • Date Founded

    1879

  • Updated

    24/08/2022

  • Associated Institution

    Associated garden: Botanischer Garten, Universität Wien.

  • Important Collectors

    L. Adamović, A. Baldacci, M. Zeyher