page_title: UPLB Museum of Natural History
section_title: Mycological Herbarium
hierarchical_section_title: UPLB Museum of Natural History / Sections / Mycological Herbarium
caption_attribution_description: English: A specimen of lichen collected in 1982 by a curator of the UPLB Museum of Natural History Mycological Herbarium.
context_page_description: The UPLB Museum of Natural History is a natural science and natural history museum within the University of the Philippines Los Baños campus. It serves as a center for documentation, research, and information of flora and fauna of the Philippines. The museum is one of the research and extension units of the UPLB and its role parallels that of a library for written records.
context_section_description: The Mycological Herbarium, with a fungal collection of around 13,000 specimens, traces its roots to the Dr. Gerardo O. Ocfemia (considered as the Father of Philippine Plant Pathology) Memorial Herbarium which was established in the 1960s from extensive fungal collections in the Philippines by iconoclast mycologist Dr. Don R. Reynolds and his students. The herbarium was formally recognized in 1966 and became included in the Index Herbariorum in 1968 as CALP (College of Agriculture, Laguna, Philippines).
  
  Similar to the Entomological Museum, the collections of the Mycological Herbarium could have been bigger if not for the complete destruction of the Baker Fungus Collection during the Japanese and American invasions of World War II.
caption: A specimen of lichen collected in 1982 by a curator of the UPLB Museum of Natural History Mycological Herbarium.
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