Herbarium UGDA - Lichens Collection UGDA-L

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Gdańsk on Mar 23, 2026 University of Gdańsk
Publication date:
23 March 2026
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University of Gdańsk
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Description

The lichen collection consists lichens and lichenicolous fungi (also some other allied non-lichenised fungi are included). It contains a local collection of specimens from Poland (mostly northern part of the country, including specimens from the Białowieża Forest), but also several samples are from Fennosciandia, Baltic Countires, British Isles and other regions. Specimens from the parts of the world mainly represent the area of ​​South America (mainly Bolivia), but also Australia, Greenland and continental North America and other regions of the world. The main collectors are T. Sulma (mainly pertusarioid lichens, Parmeliaceae, Carpathians collections), M. Kukwa (mostly northern Poland, Białowieża Forest, and Bolivia), A. Kowalewska (mostly corticolous specimens from northern Poland) and W. Fałtynowicz (collections mostly from Northern Poland). Most samples were collected after 1935, with many records made in 20th century in the 30th and 50th made by T. Sulma and 80th made by W. Fałtynowicz . Records from the 90th of 20th century and those made in 21th century are mostly collected by M. Kukwa and A. Kowalewska. UGDA-L posses also c. 1000 specimens distributed in exsiccatae

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kukwa M, Jabłońska A, Ossowska E, Kowalewska A, Ptach-Styn Ł, Jaskólska J, Marszewska I, Wszałek-Rożek K (2026). Herbarium UGDA - Lichens Collection UGDA-L. Version 1.8. University of Gdańsk. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=ugda-l&v=1.8

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Gdańsk. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 07822178-87a5-404f-bf35-ff356df06749.  University of Gdańsk publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.

Keywords

Occurrence; Europe; Poland; Bolivia; Neotropics; Białowieża; lichen; lichenicolous fungi; lichenized fungi; Fungi; Ascomycota; Basidiomycota

Contacts

Martin Kukwa
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator of Cryptogams, Herbarium Universitatis Gedanensis
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation
  • Wita Stwosza 59
80-308 Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL
Agnieszka Jabłońska
  • Originator
  • editor
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation
  • Wita Stwosza 59
80-308 Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL
Emilia Ossowska
  • Originator
  • editor
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation
  • Wita Stwosza 59
Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL
Agnieszka Kowalewska
  • Originator
  • editor
Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL
Łucja Ptach-Styn
  • Originator
  • editor
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation
  • Wita Stwosza 59
80-308 Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL
Julia Jaskólska
  • Originator
  • editor
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation
  • Wita Stwosza 59
80-308 Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL
Izabela Marszewska
  • Originator
  • editor
PL
Katarzyna Wszałek-Rożek
  • Metadata Provider
  • Curator of Vascular Plants, Herbarium Universitatis Gedanensis
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Biological Resource Center Gdańsk
  • Wita Stwosza 59
80-308 Gdańsk
Pomerania
PL

Geographic Coverage

Europe ( mailny Poland) and South America (Bolivia)

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Project Data

The aim of the project is to digitize and make available online the resources of Pomeranian herbaria, which will increase access to natural resources. The collected scientific data is addressed to a wide audience – scientific staff, students and pupils, as well as public administration and individual users.

Title Herbarium Pomeranicum Integrated Virtual Herbarium of Pomerania Herbarium Pomeranicum - Digitization and accessibility of herbarium collections of academic units of Pomerania through their connection and digital accessibility.
Identifier Herbarium Pomeranicum
Funding The project is implemented under the Operational Programme Digital Poland 2014-2020, Sub-measure: 2.3.1 Digital access to public sector information from administrative sources and scientific resources (Type II project: Digital access to scientific resources). POPC.02.03.01-00-0076/19-00

The personnel involved in the project:

Dariusz Szlachetko
  • Originator
Katarzyna Wszałek-Rożek
  • Point Of Contact
Joanna Korybyt-Orlowska
  • Metadata Provider

Collection Data

Collection Name Herbarium Universitatis Gedanensis
Collection Identifier UGDA-L
Parent Collection Identifier UGDA
Specimen preservation methods Dried

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 07822178-87a5-404f-bf35-ff356df06749
https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=ugda-l