**Code**: [RNG](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126800) **Organization**: University of Reading **Division**: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology **Department**: Biological Sciences **Location**: Reading, England, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 400000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1893 **Taxonomic coverage**: Flowering Plants, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, bryophytes, lichens **Geographic coverage**: Europe, especially Great Britain and Ireland; Iberian Peninsula; northern Africa (especially Morocco); Macaronesia; Middle East; cool temperate South America; British Isles, Europe, and Morocco **Incorporated herbaria**: RU, WRO (10 000 specimens) in 2003., SOTON (14,000 specimens) in 2008, SPN (12,000 specimens) in 2013 **Important collectors**: J. R. Akeroyd, C. H. Binstead, H. J. M. Bowen, D. Bramwell, J. P. M. Brenan, J. W. Carr, E. J. Clement, P. H. Davis, S. G. Gardner, M. F. Gardner, R. N. Goodall, S. W. Greene, E. Guinea, S.L. Jury, P. P. King, J. E. Lousley, K. M. Lyell, D. M. Moore, J. Percival, E. Pisano, F. J. Rumsey, Fr. Sennen, C. C. Townsend, B. Valdés Castrillón, E. C. Wallace, E. V. Watson **Notes**: SPN now fully incorporated into RNG. Herbarium News published annually (e-mail subscriptions welcomed); issues available for consultation at https://research.reading.ac.uk/herbarium/news-archive/. Herbarium collections stored in AdLib. Other web addresses: http://www.herbarium.rdg.ac.uk/ **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2019-02-28 > [!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.