# Institutional Abbreviations ## expand\_more Updated 8 March 2008, R. K. Edgar Institutional acronyms in bold are those of [*Index Herbariorum*](http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html) \[IH\]; acronym links are to the IH entry, other links are to the herbarium or institution. If no IH acronym is available, the city of the institution or herbarium or the institution itself is used. Additional information was incorporated from de Wolf & Sterrenburg's (2003)[ *International Survey of Diatom Collection*s.](http://home.planet.nl/%7Ewolf0334/) Sort[**ANSP**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=123881) Diatom Herbarium, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The Department of Botany at the Academy has the IH acroynym of **PH**. [**AWH**](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/?irn=124429) Herbarium, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Dr. Henri Van Heurck Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium \[diatoms transferred to **BR** in 2007\] [**B**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124103) [Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem](http://www.bgbm.org/), Berlin, Germany Belvaux [Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann](http://www.crpgl.lu/) , Belvaux, Luxembourg [**BERN**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126603) [Botanisches Institut und Garten der Universität](http://boga.unibe.ch/boga/de/home.html), Bern, Switzerland [**BHU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124783) Herbarium, Institut für Biologie, AG Spezielle Botanik und Arboretum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germnay [**BM**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126148) [The Natural History Museum](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/) \[formerly British Museum (Natural History)\], London, England, United Kingdom [**BP**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124790) Herbarium, [Botanical Department, Hungarian Natural History](http://www.bot.nhmus.hu/) Museum, Budapest, Hungary [**BPI**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126926) [Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory](http://ars.usda.gov.ba/psi/smml), USDA - Agricultural Research Service, U.S. National Fungus Collections, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America [**BR**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124997) [Jardin botanique national de Belgique](http://www.br.fgov.be/), Meise, Belgium [**BREG**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126959) Herbarium, [Vorarlberger Naturschau](http://www.naturschau.at/cup/z103/welcome.asp), Dornbirn, Austria [**BRM**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=123937) [Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung](http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/hustedt1-d.html), Bremerhaven, Germany [**BRU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124134) Stephen T. Olney Herbarium, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America [**C**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126643) [Botanical Museum and Herbarium](http://www.botanicalmuseum.dk/bot), Copenhagen, Denmark [**CAHS**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124356) Crispus Attucks High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America \[Diatom collection tranferred to **ANSP**\] [**CANA**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124181) National Herbarium of Canada, Phycology Section, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada [**CAS**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124156) [Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology](http://research.calacademy.org/research/diatoms/), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America **CAS** is technically the IH acronym for the Department of Botany at **CAS**; however, the diatom collection is housed in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, so that is the departmental link which has been provided. [**CGE**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126630) [Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences](http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom [**CHR**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125110) [Allan Herbarium](http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/databases/db_details.asp?Database_Collection_ID=1), Landcare Research New Zealand Limited, Lincoln, New Zealand [**CMU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124261) Herbarium, Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand [**CN**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126526) Herbier, Laboratoire de Biologie et Biotechnologies Marines (Equipe Phycologie), Université de Caen, Caen, Calvados, France [**DBN**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125441) Herbarium, National Museum of Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland [**E**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125811) [Royal Botanic Garden](http://www.rbge.org.uk/), Edinburg, Scotland, United Kingdom [**F**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124518) John G. Searle Herbarium, Botany Department, Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, Illinois, United States of America [**FEZA**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126387) Herbario FEZA, Carrera de Biologia, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico [**FH**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124712) [Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany](http://www.huh.harvard.edu/diatom/), [Harvard University Herbaria,](http://www.huh.harvard.edu/) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America [**FI**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125338) Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae, Sezione Botanica, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università, Firenze, Italy [**G**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124334) [Herbarium, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève,](http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/) Genève, Switzerland [**GOET**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126498) Herbarium, [Abteilung Systematische Botanik](http://www.sysbot.uni-goettingen.de/), Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany [**H**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126669) [Botanical Museum](http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/english/botany/index.htm), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland [**HAL**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125224) Herbarium, [Institut für Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten](http://www.biologie.uni-halle.de/bot.html), Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, Germany [**HANU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124700) Herbarium, Biology Department, [Harbin Normal University](http://www.hrbnu.edu.cn/2008/), Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China [**HBG**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124874) [Herbarium, Biozentrum Klein-Flottbek](http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/syst/herbar2.htm), Hamburg, Germany Irkutsk [Limnological Institute](http://lin.irk.ru/about.htm), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia [**JE**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124582) [Herbarium Haussknecht](http://www2.uni-jena.de/biologie/spezbot/herbar/hhe.html), Institut für Spezielle Botanik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany [**K**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125812) [Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens](http://www.kew.org/collections/herbcol.html), Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom **KBG** Kunming Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China [*fide* Lisa Decesare, Botany Libraries, Harvard Univeristy Herbaria] [**KIEL**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126504) Herbarium KIEL, Botanisches Garten , Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, German**y** [**L**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125426) [Nationaal Herbarium Nederland](http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/), Leiden University branch, Leiden, Netherlands La Chaux-des-Fonds [Lycée Blaise-Cendrars](http://www.rpn.ch/lbc/spip/), La Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland [**LD**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124082) [Herbarium, Botanical Musuem](http://www.biomus.lu.se/o.o.i.s/8510), Lund, Sweden [**LE**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126956) Herbarium, Russian Academy of Sciences, [V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute](http://www.binran.ru/), Leningrad, Russia Leiden [Museum Boerhaave](http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/), Leiden, The Netherlands [**LG**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126529) Herbarium, Département de Botanique, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium [**LP**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125337) Herbario, División Plantas Vasculares, [Museo de La Plata](http://www.unlp.edu.ar/museo/index.html), Buenos Aires, Argentina [**M**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124105) Herbarium,[ Botanische Staatssammlung München](http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/), München, Germany [**MPU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126555) Herbier, Institut de Botanique, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France [**NCY**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124335) Herbier, [Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques](http://www.cjbn.uhp-nancy.fr/) de Nancy, Nancy, France [**NEU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126534) Herbarium, Laboratoire de botanique évolutive, Institut de Botanique, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [**NMW**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125463) Herbarium, [Department of Biodiversity and Systematic Biology](http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/biosyb/lowerplants/), [National Museums and Galleries of Wales](http://www.nmgw.ac.uk/), Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom [**NPA**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125416) Herbarium, Paleobotany Laboratory, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China [**NSW**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125814) National Herbarium of New South Wales, [Royal Botanic Gardens](http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/), Sydney, Australia [**NY**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125525) William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, [New York Botanical Garden,](http://www.nybg.org/) Bronx, New York, United States of America [**NYS**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125526) Herbarium, Biological Survey, New York State Museum, Albany, New York, United States of America [**O**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124083) [Herbarium, Botanical Museum,](http://www.nhm.uio.no/botanisk/bot-mus/index.html) University of Oslo, Norway [**OS**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125593) Herbarium, [Museum of Biological Diversity](http://herbarium.biosci.ohio-state.edu/), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America [**OXF**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126783) [Fielding-Druce Herbarium, Deparment of Botany](http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/home/), Oxford University, Oxford, Great Britain [**PAD**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126450) Erbario Patavinum, Centro Interdipartimentale Musei Scientifici, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy [**PAV**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126467) Erbario, Dipartimento de Ecologia del Territorio, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy [**PC**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125380) Herbier Cryptogamique, Départment de Systématique et Évolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [**PEU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126792) [Ria Olivier Herbarium, Botany Department,](http://www.upe.ac.za/botany/botany.htm) University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth, South Africa [**PH**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?IRN=123882) [Department of Botany, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia](http://www.acnatsci.org/research/biodiv/botany.html), Philadelphia, Pennsylvana, United States of America [**PRA**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124846) Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic Pretoria National Institute for Water Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa [**RO**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126453) Erbario, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy [**ROST**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126510) Herbarium Rostochiense, Botanischer Garten, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany [**S**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126099) Herbarium, Botany Departments, [Swedish Museum of Natural History](http://www.nrm.se/), Stockholm, Sweden \[incorporated into **S**\] [**SI**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124891) [Herbario, Instituto de Botánica Darwinion](http://www.darwin.edu.arhttp/www.darwin.edu.ar/), San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina [**SPA**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126100) Section for Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden \[former acronym **S-PA**\] [**SP**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124893) Herbário, Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brazil Stevenson John A. Stevenson Mycological Library, [Smithsonian Institution](http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/), Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America [**STR**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=124827) Herbier, Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France [**STU**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126038) Herbarium, Abteilung für Botanik, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany Szczecin Department of Geology & Palaeogeography, Institute of Marine Sciences, Szczecin University, Szczecin, Poland [**TALE**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125099) Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire Géologique, Talence, France [**TCD**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126186) Herbarium, School of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland [**TL**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126560) [Herbier, Service des herbiers de l'UPS](http://www.tela-botanica.org/), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France [**TNS**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125471) Herbarium, [Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science](http://www.kahaku.go/jp/english/), Tsukuba, Japan Ulaanbaatar Biology Faculty, [National University of Mongolia](http://num.edu.mn/), Ulaanbaatar \[Ulan Bator\], Mongolia, People’s Republic of China [**UPCB**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126365) Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil [**UPS**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126919) [Museum of Evolution, Botany Section (Fytoteket),](http://www-hotel.uu.se/evolmuseum/fytotek/) Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala, Sweden [**W**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=125500) [Herbarium, Department of Botany, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/nhm/Botanik/), Wien, Austria [**WRSL**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=127049) Herbarium, Botany Department, Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Wrocklaw, Poland [**Z**](http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126516) [Herbarium, Institut für Systematische Botanik](http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/herbarium/), Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland