Collections

Section Fungi

Important collections

R. Agerer (approx. 3,500 herbarium specimens and 4,800 specimens of other preservation types), A. Allescher (approx. 12,000 specimens), F. C. G. Arnold (approx. 4,000 specimens, mainly lichenicolous fungi), G. Bresadola (approx. 5,000 specimens), H. & H. Doppelbaur (approx. 6,500 specimens, mainly phytopathogenic taxa), E. Eichhorn (approx. 5,000 specimens, mainly Uredinales), A. Einhellinger (approx. 5,500 specimens, mainly macromycetes), H. Große-Brauckmann (approx. 6,000 specimens, mainly corticioid and polyporoid fungi), H. Jahn (approx. 6,000 specimens, mainly Poriales), S. Killermann (approx. 25,000 specimens, mainly from Bavaria), E. Ludwig (approx. 4,000 specimens, mainly Agaricales s.l. from Europe), M. Moser (approx. 1,000 specimens, mainly Agaricales s.l.), H. Müller (approx. 3,500 specimens of Myxomycota), G. Niessl von Mayendorf (approx. 20,000 specimens), H. Neubert (approx. 7,500 specimens of Myxomycota), F. Petrak (approx. 20,000 specimens), M. Schnittler (approx. 10,000 specimens of Myxomycota), E. Soehner (approx. 2,500 specimens, mainly hypogaeous fungi from Bavaria), J. Stangl (approx. 2,500 specimens, mainly Inocybe).

An index of the collectors and fungi collections in M from 1813 to 1988 is given by Hertel & Schreiber (1988) – online version, extended. For web search of material in M visit Collections online and JSTOR Global Plants in Munich.

Exsiccatae

General information: IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae
Exsiccata currently distributed: Triebel, Microfungi exsiccati

Water colours and other hand drawings

Important series: M. Britzelmayr (approx. 1,500 water colours and pencil drawings of Basidiomycota), J. Schäffer (approx. 900 water colours of Basidiomycota), K. Schieferdecker (approx. 1,300 water colours mainly of fungi from Germany), F. Wohlfarth (approx. 1,900 water colours mainly of macromycetes from Central Europe).