**Code**: [WU](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126513) **Organization**: Universität Wien **Division**: Faculty of Life Sciences **Department**: Department for Botany und Biodiversity Research **Location**: Wien, Austria **Total number of specimens**: 1400000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1879 **Taxonomic coverage**: All plant groups, mainly angiosperms **Geographic coverage**: Central Europe, Balkan peninsula, southwestern Asia, China, South America, and Africa **Important collectors**: L. Adamović, A. Baldacci, M. Zeyher **Notes**: Updated Aug. 2022. Some specimens have been digitized, especially types, and records are available in Virtual Herbaria: https://www.jacq.org/\#database. Loan requests for type specimens must state exact details about place of publication, synonyms, type-locality, etc. Collections of the Mycological Society of Austria are part of WU, fully databased and curated and numbered separately as WU-MYC in the Virtual Herbaria database. Requests of all material (WU and WU-MYC) should be addressed to Curator of WU. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-08-24 > [!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.