MADBRYO

The herbarium of the Eszterházy Károly University, Eger (EGR), Hungary is one of the largest cryptogamic collections in Central Europe. It contains nearly 200,000 bryophyte specimens from all around the world and with remarkable collections made by the staff on expeditions in East Africa, Tunisia, the Indian Ocean islands, Australia, Cuba, Peru, Venezuela, Vietnam, the Fiji Islands and other territories. Within the Carpathian basin the collection of the cryptogamic vegetation of loess cliffs is unique in its comprehensiveness.
Vascular and cryptogamic plants were both collected in different areas of Hungary: Őrség, the Bükk and Mátra Mountains; and from the Carpathians: the Lower Tatra, Bihar, Retezat, Hargita, Tarcu, Parâng and Fogaras mountains.
We also preserve material from outside the Carpathians: from the Julian Alps, the Spitzbergen, Greece and Bulgaria. EGR has started the process of databasing and the data will be available online soon.

Members from the Deparment of Botany led by Prof. T. Pócs, in cooperation with the Missouri Biotanic Garden and the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza (Antananarivo) participated in four collecting expeditions to Madagascar between 1990 and 2004.
The material from these expeditions is held at Tsimbazaza, MO and EGR. Part of the results of these collections are already published, although many of them have yet to be identified to species level, especially the epiphyllous material and several moss groups. Minor collections from Madagascar originate from other collectors as well.