**Code**: [EGR](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124499) **Organization**: Eszterhazy Karoly University of Applied Sciences **Division**: Institute of Biology **Department**: Department of Botany and Plant physiology **Location**: Eger, Hungary **Total number of specimens**: 220000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1961 **Taxonomic coverage**: Lichens; bryophytes; vascular plants **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, Europe and Africa, especially of tropical regions of Africa and adjacent islands, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, Cuba, and Venezuela; the Carpathian Basin **Incorporated herbaria**: Foreign bryophytes of BP. **Important collectors**: B. Ádám, D. Balázs, A. Bernecker, A. Borhidi, Á. Boros, J. L. De Sloover, F. Fóriss, J-P. Frahm, S. R. Gradstein, A. Károlyi, T. Koponen, J. Kubassek, V. László, R. E. Magill, T. Ninh, D. H. Norris, R. Ochyra, S. Orbán, T. Pócs, A. Schäfer-Verwimp, H. Streiman, J. Suba, G. Topál, A. Touw, L. Vajda, G. van Reenen, B. O. van Zanten, A. Vezda, G. Vida, A. Vojtkó, M. Vrabélyi **Notes**: Updated Sep 2017 (notes). Botanical library available to all researchers. Library includes over 5000 volumes (books and monographs), 10000 reprints, collections of archives and manuscripts, seed catalogs, photographs. Specialty: all groups worldwide with greatest strength in tropical Africa. 633 specimens incorporated into Conservatoire Botanique National de Mascarin (Mayotte) (MAO) in 2006. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2021-10-12 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.