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Catalog of GENT Mycological
Herbarium Type Specimens
(Catalog last updated April 12, 2002)
The New York Botanical Garden has begun the process of hosting
specimen data from other institutions. The GENT herbarium's fungal type collection
is the first set of hosted data to be freely made searchable on the Garden's
web site. All inquiries about the data and specimens should be directed to
Prof. Dr. A. Verbeken (mieke.verbeken@rug.ac.be).
The fungus herbarium of GENT (Belgium) comprises approximately
25,000 specimens. Historical collections consist of some "published herbaria" of cryptogams of Belgium and Northern France:
- Desmazières J.B.H.J., Plantes cryptogames [du Nord] de la
France, nrs. 1-2200 [fasc. 1-44 (1825-1851);
- Desmazières J.B.H.J., Plantes cryptogames de France, éd.
2, sér. 2, nrs. 1-800 [fasc. 1-16 (1853-1861);
- Libert M.A., Plantae Cryptogamae, quas in Arduenna collegit,
nrs. 1-400 [fasc. 1-4 (1830-1837)];
- Westendorp G.D., Herbier cryptogamique ou collection des
plantes cryptogames et agames qui croissent en Belgique, nrs. 1-1400 [fasc.
1-28 (1845-1859), 2 copies] as well as the material, unfortunately only
partly preserved, that formed the base of 2 historical local floras;
- Kickx Jean f. (1835) Flore cryptogamique des environs de
Louvain, ou description des plantes cryptogames et agames qui croissent
dans le Brabant et dans une partie de la province d'Anvers. Bruxelles, Vandooren;
- Kickx Jean Jacques (1867) Flore cryptogamique des Flandres.
Oeuvre posthume de Jean Kickx. II. Gand, Librairie Générale.
Other old collections were made by Prof. Van Bambeke C. (1829-1918,
mainly local Gasteromycetes and Aphyllophorales s.l.) and Prof. Verplancke
J.P.J. (1898-1964, mainly plant pathogens of both wild and locally cultivated
plants). More recently, collections of macrofungi and myxomycetes of Belgium
were built up by both staff members and local amateur mycologists. An active
collecting program in Papua New Guinea carried out in the nineties concentrated
on polypores and Xylariaceae. Some collecting was also done in Central Africa
and Zimbabwe. At present, emphasis is made on the study of the genus Lactarius
(world-wide) and microfungi on Phragmites australis (local).
Curator: Prof. Dr. A. Verbeken, mieke.verbeken@rug.ac.be
Collaborator: Ruben Walleyn.
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