Tel Aviv University Herbarium (TELA)
Collection of Lichens
The Lichen Collection was established in 1965, when Israel Reichert, who had studied lichens
since 1936, donated his collection and large library to the
Department of Plant Sciences at
Tel Aviv University. This donation comprised some
2000 specimens from many countries all over the worls, and a collection of largely unidentified
lichens collected through many years in Israel, Sinai and several neighbouring countries
(Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, etc.). The lichen collection from abroad, which contains to date
some 4000 specimens, served as reference material for the preparation of the The Lichens of
Israel by M. Galun (1970), published by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
and for later studies on the lichen flora of Israel and Sinai. All the species (about 300, several
specimens of each) described in these studies form the lichen herbarium of the local
species (Israel and Sinai).
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Verrucaria marmorea |
Ramalina lacera |
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Caloplaca aurantia |
Lecanora muralis |
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Lecanora atra |
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