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University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Lichens

Specimen Records: 16,956
Media Records: 31,545
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.

Contacts

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EmailLichenConsortium@gmail.com
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EmailLichenConsortium@gmail.com
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Emailtwidhelm2@unl.edu
Name Todd Widhelm
RoleCurator, Bessey Herbarium
Emailtwidhelm2@unl.edu
Name Susan Weller
RoleDirector, Morrill Hall
Emailsusan.weller@unl.edu
Name Todd Widhelm
RoleCurator, Bessey Herbarium
Emailtwidhelm2@unl.edu
Name Susan Weller
RoleDirector, Morrill Hall
Emailsusan.weller@unl.edu
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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78.09
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66.726
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3.025
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rev_geocode_failure  i1
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rev_geocode_mismatch  i1
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