Herbarium Ustilaginales Vánky (HUV)

 

   

 

                 

 

 

 

 

 

The Herbarium Ustilaginales Vánky (HUV) is a private herbarium. It started its activity in 1954 in Romania, continued in Sweden, Gagnef (between 1970-1986) and in Germany, Tübingen (1986-2013).

   The HUV manages a collection of smut fungi (Ustilaginomycotina), containing in January 2013 over 22.000 samples, of which a great number are type specimens (holotypes, isotypes, neotypes, lectotypes, syntypes, paratypes, topotypes).

   The HUV arranges exchange of smut fungi on a one-to-one basis. The HUV also issues and distributes the ‘Vanky, Ustilaginales exsiccata’ (Vanky, Ust. exs.; see chapter Exsiccate).