**Code**: [LSR](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125141) **Organization**: Leicestershire County Council Museum Service **Department**: Collections Resources Centre **Location**: Leicester, England, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 120000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1849 **Taxonomic coverage**: Lichens, bryophytes, fungi, charophytes, eumycetozoa, and some representative fossil genera; a seed & cone collection, wood collection and ancillary collections of photographs, models and personalia of local botanists **Geographic coverage**: British Isles **Incorporated herbaria**: KRG, UPP **Important collectors**: W. Bell, G. J. V. Bemrose, C. A. Billups, J. P. Blunt, T. Carter, G. A. Chester, D. A. L. Davies, A. Fletcher, F. L. Foord-Kelcey, A. E. Furnival, A. Hackett, C. B. Headly, E. K. Horwood, A. R. Horwood, A. B. Jackson, M. Kirby, D. C. Lindsay, K. G. Messenger, F. T. Mott, P. A. Padmore, T. A. Preston, A. L. Primavesi, P. Reader, T. E. Routh, F. A. Sowter, S. A. Taylor, G. C. Turner, W. A. Vice, A. E. Wade, M. Wigginton **Notes**: Updated Mar 2015 (general update). **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-01-12 > [!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.