**Code**: [K](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125812) **Organization**: Royal Botanic Gardens **Division**: Science **Location**: Kew, England, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 8125000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1852 **Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants and larger fungi; emphasis on families of major economic importance **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially Africa, tropical Asia, and Australasia **Incorporated herbaria**: Fungi of BM, BRC, IMI, PHA, PSGB, SHYP, TKMN. **Important collectors**: E. F. André, R. Baron, G. Bentham, M. J. Berkeley, W. Borrer, C. E. Broome, W. J. Burchell, G. C. Churchill, C. B. Clarke, M. C. Cooke, A. Cunningham, J. F. Duthie, J. R. Forster, J. G. A. Forster, J. S. Gamble, G. Gardner, J. E. Gay, A. Gonan, W. Hancock, R. M. Harley, A. Henry, G. B. Hinton, J. D. Hooker, W. J. Hooker, H. J. Howard, A. F. G. Kerr, F. C. Lehmann, J. Lightfoot, J. Lindley (K-L), J. T. Moggridge, T. Moore, P. D. Orton, T. Petch, R. C. A. Prior, C. Rea, J. P. Rottler, R. Spruce, K. Vollesen, N. Wallich (K-W), H. C. Watson (K-WA), E. A. Willmott, E. H. Wilson, J.R.I. Wood **Notes**: Updated December 2022: Please use the following link to request a visit to the collections https://www.kew.org/science/engage/accessing-our-science/access-our-collections. Funded as a government institution in 1841; Kew herbarium and library founded in 1852. Around 7 million vascular plant specimens (including approximately 330,000 types) and 1.25 million fungi specimens. Digitisation of specimens is underway. Catalogue numbers of Herbarium specimens begin with K; and with K-M for Fungarium specimens, older records may have been cited as K(M). Specimens of original Wallich Herbarium (K-W) are not sent on loan. K lichens (pre mid 1960s only), bryophytes, and algae transferred to BM in the 1960s. K is a Non-Departmental Public Body (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-12-21 > [!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.