Institut für Evolution und Ökologie

General herbarium

The general herbarium at Tuebingen University (acronym: TUB) currently consists of approximately 250.000 specimens of vascular plants (200.000), ferns (6.000), mosses (15.000), liverworts (2.600), algae (4.000), lichens (7.000) and fungi (66.000), among them several thousand type specimen.

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Many important historical collections are part of the general herbarium, e.g. specimens from J. G. Gmelin's famous Kamchatka Expedition (1733-1743), the private collection of Hugo von Mohl, or the collections of Unio Itineraria (Esslinger Reiseverein, 1825-1845), a legendary scientific society that organised world-wide natural history expeditions, many of them led by well-known explorers and naturalists such as Georg Wilhelm Schimper or Friedrich Welwitsch.