**Code**: [Z](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126516) **Organization**: Herbarium of the University of Zürich **Department**: Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany **Location**: Zürich, Switzerland **Total number of specimens**: 1840000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1834 **Taxonomic coverage**: Algae, fungi, bryophytes, and vascular plants **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide; especially Central Europe, southern Africa, New Caledonia **Incorporated herbaria**: BERN (2008, bryophytes) **Important collectors**: J. H. Albrecht, O. Appert, M. Baumann-Bodenheim, W. Becker, A. Braun, P. Culmann, A. U. Däniker, K. Dinter, A. Ernst, W. Geilinger, J. Gessner, M. B. F. Gugelberg von Moos, J. Hegetschweiler, T. von Heldreich, T. C. J. Herzog, H. Hürlimann, R. Keller, K. U. Kramer, F. Markgraf, I. Markgraf-Dannenberg, J. Müller, M. Rautanen, A. Rehmann, J. J. Roemer, W. Schibler, H. Schinz, F. R. R. Schlechter, H.-J. E. Schlieben, E. Schmid, E. Sickenberger, H. Siegfried, H. U. Stauffer, A. F. Stolz, A. Thellung, E. Werdermann, F. O. Wolf, G. A. Zenker, E. Zogg **Notes**: In 1990, the Herbarium of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ZT) and the Herbarium of the Universität Zürich (Z) were combined to work together as United Herbaria Zürich Z+ZT. Requests for material to either Z or ZT will be considered as a request to both institutions. Address given above concerns the plant collections of Z+ZT. The bryophyte collection of BERN is maintained separately.The address for the fungi and lichen collections can be found under the entry for ZT. URL of the herbarium is https://www.herbarien.uzh.ch **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-04-13 > [!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.