Botanical collections
The Museum of Evolution’s botanical collections date back to 1785, when Carl Peter Thunberg was appointed professor at Uppsala University. Thunberg’s extensive herbarium, gathered from South Africa, Ceylon, Java, and Japan, together with Joachim Burser’s Hortus Siccus, form some of our most valuable collections.
Today, the herbarium contains approximately 3.1 million specimens, including 1,920,000 vascular plants, 250,000 mosses, 80,000 algae, 360,000 fungi, and 510,000 lichens.
Important collections
Algae
- Frans Reinhold Kjellman
- Carl Skottsberg
- Heinrich Leonhards Skuja
- Mats Waern
Vascular plants
- Carl Gustav Alm
- Joachim Burser (Hortus Siccus)
- Olof Celsius (Flora Uplandica)
- Gunnar Degelius
- Per Dusén
- Erik Leonard Ekman
- Robert Elias Fries
- Thore Christian Elias Fries
- Fredrik Hasselquist
- Olov Hedberg
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme
- Anders Fredrik Regnell
- Harry Smith
- Carl Peter Thunberg
- Göran Wahlenberg
- Mats Thulin
- Carl Skottsberg
- Ludwig Preiss
- Pehr Kalm
Lichens
- Erik Acharius
- Gunnar Degelius
- Gustaf Einar Du Rietz
- Thore Magnus Fries
- Per Johan Hellbom
- Adolf Hugo Magnusson
- Rolf Santesson
- Greta Sernander-Du Rietz
- Carl Skottsberg
- Göran Wahlenberg
Bryophytes
- Hampus Wilhelm Arnell
- Sigfrid Arnell
- Per Dusén
- Olle Mårtensson
- Edvard von Krusenstjerna
Fungi
- Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart
- Elias Fries
- Kerstin Holm
- Lennart Holm
- Seth Lundell
- Nils Lundqvist
- Petter Adolf Karsten
- John Axel Nannfeldt
- Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst