**Code**: [KRAM](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125703) **Organization**: W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences **Location**: Kraków, Poland **Total number of specimens**: 1227500 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1867 **Taxonomic coverage**: algae (408.000 specimens); bryophytes (250.000 specimens); macrofossils (47.000 specimens); slides of pollen and spores worldwide (17.000 specimens); fungi (60.000 specimens); lichens (71.000 specimens); myxomycetes (1.500 specimens); vascular plants (650.000 specimens) **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially Central European mountains, Poland, Europe, Africa, South America, Antarctica, Subantarctica (South Georgia, Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, Heard Island, Macquarie Island) **Incorporated herbaria**: Bryophytes (10 000 specimens) of KRA on permanent loan, Bolestraszyce Arboretum - BDPA (ca. 7000 specimens of lichens) in 2009, Agricultural University Kraków - KRAP (ca. 7000 specimens of fungal collections of S. Domanski in 2004, ca. 20 000 sheets of vascular plants in 2015). **Important collectors**: H. Bednarek-Ochyra, U. Bielczyk, K. Birkenmajer, W. Boberski, J. Bystrek, A. Chlebicki, S. Cieslinski, B. Cykowska, K. Czyzewska, J. L. De Sloover, W. Faltynowicz, A. Flakus, E. Fudali, J. E. Gilibert, K. Glanc, B. Godzik, K. Grodzinska, E. G. Janczewski, A. Jasiewicz, S. B. Jundzill, K. Karczmarz, J. Kiszka, B. Kotula, J. Krupa, H. Krzemieniewska, B. Krzewicka, M. Kuc, M. Kukwa, R. I. Lewis-Smith, F. Lilienfeld, S. Lisowski, B. A. Lynge, J. Madalski, T. Majewski, C. M. Matteri, J. Motyka, T. Mrozinska, B. Namyslowski, J. Nowak, R. Ochyra, L. Olesinski, B. Pawlowski, J. Piatek, M. Piatek, J. Piórecki, T. Pócs, M. Raciborski, A. Rehmann, K. S. Rouppert, J. A. Shevock, J. Sieminska, A. Slendzinski, L. Sliwa, A. Srodon, K. Starmach, A. Stebel, W. Stec-Rouppertowa, H. Streimann, L. Stuchlik, T. Sulma, B. Szafran, Z. Tobolewski, F. Yu. Velichkevich, Z. Waclawska, C. M. Wetmore, K. Wilk, W. Wojewoda, K. Woloszynski, G. Worobiec, A. Wróblewski, J. Zablocki, W. Zablocki, J. Zarnowiec, K. Zarzycki, M. Zielinska, A. J. Zmuda **Notes**: Updated April 2019 (staff, general data). NOTE: Please address shipments to the relevant curator (see Correspondents) rather than to \"Herbarium.\" Five private herbaria are stored at KRAM. A book series published by the Institute, with some information concerning a.o. KRAM and other Polish collections is Polish Botanical Studies - Guidebook Series / Botanical Guidebooks. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2019-09-20 > [!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.