Collectors of lichens of Minnesota (USA) Version 31 December 2017

 

1. Fink, Bruce: - Lichenologist. Collected in August 1901 in Voyageurs National Park. Collections from many part of the state for the Botanical survey housed in the herbarium of the University of Minnesota (MIN). Published in 1903 and 1910. "During the summer of 1899, Fink collected lichens near Mankato and other towns along the Minnesota River and at Pipestone (Fink 1899). Wetmore (1978) reviewed Fink's lichen collections and publications and produced an itinerary of Fink's Minnesota collection dates and localities. Unfortunately, Fink's precise collection sites could not be located because his herbarium labels give only brief locality names and his collection books and field notebooks are apparently lost (Wetmore 1978). Fink's references, in his publication and on his specimen labels, to Sioux quartzite and pipestone as lichen substrates, suggest that he collected from the Indian quarries north of the town of Pipestone. In 1937, this area became Pipeston National Monument (PIPE). We detected changes in the lichen flora of PIPE by comparing Fink's species list with our collections." Willson & Vinyard (1986).

2. Schmitt, Dr. Imke: - Lichenologist.
   Address:   Dr. I. Schmitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Curator of Lichenized Fungi, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 250 Biological Sciences Center, 1445 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
   Phone: (612)-624-5428
   Fax: (612)-625-1738
   E-mail: schm2109@umn.edu

3. Vinyard, Timothy W.: - Collected and published together with Willson.

4. Wetmore, Dr. Clifford M.: - Lichenologist. Collected intensely in 1978 and 1979 in Voyageurs National Park.
   Clifford Wetmore

5. Willson, Gary D.: - Collections from Pipestone National Monument in 1983 and 1984 in PIPE herbarium.