**Code**: [LISC](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124900) **Organization**: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical **Division**: Universidade de Lisboa **Department**: Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência **Location**: Lisboa, Portugal **Total number of specimens**: 300000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1948 **Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants **Geographic coverage**: Tropical Africa, especially Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Príncipe **Incorporated herbaria**: LISM., LISJC (57 000 specimens in 2002) **Important collectors**: M. E. F. Angola, J. M. Antunes, L. A. G. Barbosa, E. De Kindt, J. V. G. Espírito Santo, J. Gossweiler, G. M. P. C. Le Testu, I. C. Leong, E. J. S. M. Mendes, F. de A. Mendonça, H.-J. E. Schlieben, J. M. B. Teixeira, A. R. da Torre **Notes**: Updated Apr 2017 (Address updated and phone and fax numbers removed). LISC is part of State Ministry of Science and Technology. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-11-26 > [!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.