The Herbarium Hamburgense of the University of Hamburg (HBG) is the 4th largest herbarium in Germany and recently became part of the Loki Schmidt Botanical Garden, a central operational unit of the University of Hamburg. HBG is now also holding the large carpological collections of the former Hamburg Botanical Museum (HBG-ABC) and the various reference collections of the department for seed control at the former Institute of Applied Botany. The Herbarium Hamburgense is making its collections available to the scientific public for biodiversity research in many fields, chiefly plant taxonomy, systematics and evolution as well as ecology. HBG is partner of the JACQ Consortium (www.jacq.org) and digitized specimens are also displayed through the University of Hamburg collections portal Fundus! (www.fundus.uni-hamburg.de) and the German Digital Library collections from colonial contexts portal (https://ccc.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/en). HBG is actively involved in university teaching and cooperates in outreach activities and exhibition projects.
The scope of the collections is worldwide and spans a period of 300 years. HBG covers all plant groups representing c. 200.000 taxa. Important taxonomic groups of vascular plants are Aizoaceae, Lauraceae, Orchidaceae, Pedaliaceae, the fern collection and others. Cryptogamic plants are represented by a very large Fungarium, an actively growing lichen (lichenized ascomycetes) collection and the historically important, large algal and bryophyte collections. All plant groups are represented by numerous, valuable type specimens. Important, large collection include those of D. BRANDIS (India), A. DIETRICH (Australia), J.F. DRÈGE (South Africa), C.F. ECKLON & C.L.P. ZEYHER (South Africa), C.F.E. ERICHSEN (lichens), E. GRAEFFE (South Sea), H.E.K. HARTMANN (Aizoaceae, South Africa), P. MAGNUS (fungi), J. MILDBRAED (Cameroon), W. MÖNKEMEYER (bryophytes), E. ULE (Brazil), H.E. WEBER (Rubus), H.K.A. WINKLER (Borneo) and many others. HBG preserves approximately 50.000 types of which c. 25.000 have been digitized so far. Particular responsibility emerges from the large collections originating in the former German and other colonies. Special collections are the bulky specimens and alcohol collections, especially those of the Applied Botany Collection (ABC), galls and teratologia as well as the autograph and portrait collections.
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Citation: Herbarium Hamburgense (2026). Herbarium Hamburgense. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/31iaih accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-11.