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Bryophyte Herbarium, Oslo (O) UiO

Specimen Records: 188,282
Media Records: 172,854
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-19

Bryophytes at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. The bryophyte herbarium at the Botanical Museum, the University of Oslo, comprises a Norwegian herbarium (ca. 185,000 specimens, of which ca. 100,000 mosses, ca. 15,000 peat mosses and ca. 35,000 hepatics), a general herbarium (ca. 80,000), a type herbarium with ca. 100 types and a collection of older exsiccata (ca. 5,000 specimens). The herbarium contains important material among others from Norway, the Arctic, Macaronesia and Tristan da Cunha. Important collectors are Matthias Numsen Blytt (1789-1862), Søren Christian Sommerfelt (1794-1838), Christian Kaurin (1831-1898), Frantz Caspar Kiær (1835-1893), Nils Gregers Ingvald Wulfsberg (1847-1888), Elling Ryan (1849-1905), Baard Bastian Larsen Kaalaas (1851-1917), Ingebrigt Severin Hagen (1852-1917; in part), Nils Bryhn (1854-1916; in part), Eugen Honoratius Jørgensen (1862-1938; in part), Johannes Lid (1886-1971) and Per Størmer (1907-1991). Buildup of the herbarium database started in 1997. Currently approximately 185,000 specimens have been imaged and so far 68,000 specimens databased from the Norwegian collection.

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Rolenone
Emailhelpdesk@gbif.no
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Rolenone
Emailhelpdesk@gbif.no
Name Rune Halvorsen
RoleProfessor
Emailrune.halvorsen@nhm.uio.no
Name Siri Rui
RoleHead engineer
Emailsiri.rui@nhm.uio.no
Name Anne Molia
RoleHead engineer
Emailanne.molia@nhm.uio.no
Name Rune Halvorsen
RoleProfessor
Emailrune.halvorsen@nhm.uio.no
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