**Code**: [HMAS](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124865) **Organization**: Chinese Academy of Sciences **Department**: Institute of Microbiology, CAS **Location**: Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China **Total number of specimens**: 561000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1953 **Taxonomic coverage**: Fungi and lichens, especially Uredinales, Erysiphales, Ustilaginales, Agaricales, Aphyllophorales, <Cercospora> and allies, and discomyetes; other higher basidiomycetes and ascomycetes; Cladoniaceae; Umbilicariaceae **Geographic coverage**: Mainly China **Incorporated herbaria**: Fungi of: former Tsinghua University, National Research Institute of Biology, Academia Sinica, former Peiping Academy, University of Nanking in part. **Important collectors**: J. C. Arthur, J. B. Chen, S. L. Chen, C. C. Cheo, W. F. Chiu, C. E. Cummins, S. Q. Deng, J. B. Ellis, B. M. Everhart, W. G. Farlow, Y. Hashioka, H. Hertel, N. Hiratsuka, Y. M. Jiang, H. Kashiwadani, S. Kurokawa, E. Licent, L. Ling, T.-n. Liou, X. J. Liu, X. L. Mao, R. Moberg, S. H. Ou, H. E. Parks, J. A. Parmelee, O. A. Plunkett, K. Sawada, A. B. Seymour, C. L. Shear, H. Sydow, P. Sydow, F.-l. Tai, L. Tibell, S.-c. Teng, R. Thaxter, Y. Tochinai, Y. Tokunaga, P. C. Tsoong, J. C. Tracy, K. Vánky, P. Vogel, T. Vestergren, Y. C. Wang, Z. Wang, C. T. Wei, J. C. Wei, J. R. Weir, H. A. Wen, C. Y. Wu, W. N. Xiang, W. Yamamoto, H. S. Yao, W. Y. Yen, J. Z. Ying, H. N. Yu, T. F. Yu, J. D. Zhao, R. Y. Zheng **Notes**: Updated Mar 2015 (updated address, new staff ). **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-05-24 > [!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.