The Herbarium
Only some fascicles of the genera Dicranella and Campylopus were saved in 1943. The remainder of the general herbarium was destroyed. Fortunately some important old collections are extant because they were kept separately. The most valuable herbarium is that of S. E. de Bridel which is still not included in the general herbarium (Schultze-Motel 1977). Other old or newly acquired collections came from Andres, M. Fleischer, Hintze, Loeske, K. Osterwald, H. Reimers and many others (see Selective list of collections).
A list of extant types of C. Warnstorf's herbarium was published by Schultze-Motel (1962), who also reported on a collection of bryophytes made in 1829 by Ch. G. Ehrenberg and A. von Humboldt in Siberia (Schultze-Motel 1963). The list of an extant old collection from Peru (leg. Raimondi) has just been published (Menzel & Schultze-Motel 1987).
Extant collections from the time before 1943
- Herbarium Bridel (complete); list downloadable
- Dicranaceae, some fasc. (Campylopus and Dicranella p.p.)
The Bryophyte collection now contains more than 280,000 specimens.
[Text from P. Hiepko in Englera 7: 219-252, 1987; modified]
