Herbarium of Umeå University (UME)

Nils Ericson1, Katarina Stenman1, Manash Shah2

1 Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 2 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

Corresponding author(s): Nils Ericson (Nils.Ericson@umu.se), Katarina Stenman (katarina.stenman@umu.se)

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Northern Sweden, Västerbotten, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=umeaa-general

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Vascular plants, fungi, bryophytes, lichens, algae
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Fungi, Plantae
Common names: Fungi, Mosses, Plants

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Specimens mainly from northern Sweden, but the herbarium also holds specimens from other parts of the world.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not Applicable
Collection name: Herbarium UME
Collection identifier: Not Applicable
Living time period: From early 1800 to now ; The herbarium was founded in 1968, and a large part of the collections are from that period and onwards. The herbarium also hold older collections that have been donated to us.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Herbarium of Umeå University (UME)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www.gbif.se/ipt/archive.do?r=umeaa-general
Publication date of data: 2023-03-23
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-04-22
Hierarchy level: Dataset