Collection Profile for: United States National Herbarium (US-Botany) The United States National Herbarium was founded in 1848, when the first collections were accessioned from the United States Exploring Expedition (50,000 specimens of 10,000 species). Current holdings total 5 million specimens, making this collection among the ten largest in the world representing about 8% of the plant collection resources of the United States. The herbarium is especially rich in type specimens (@110,000).
Collection Statistics
238,399 specimen records
48,651 (20%) georeferenced
47,384 (20%) with images (47,384 total images) 172,766 (72%) identified to species 545 families 4,191 genera 36,612 species 38,873 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
6 May 2014
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acanthococos (1 ) Acoelorraphe (24 ) Acrocomia (51 ) Aiphanes (72 ) Allagoptera (37 ) Ammandra (11 ) Aphandra (4 ) Areca (2 ) Aristeyera (1 ) Asterogyne (76 ) Astrocaryum (185 ) Attalea (203 ) Bactris (745 ) Brahea (45 ) Butia (58 ) Calamus (1 ) Calyptrogyne (87 ) Caryota (10 ) Catoblastus (2 ) Catostigma (6 ) Ceroxylon (63 ) Chamaedorea (1240 ) Chamaerops (2 ) Chelyocarpus (17 ) Chrysalidocarpus (1 ) Coccothrinax (20 ) Cocos (16 ) Colpothrinax (35 ) Copernicia (18 ) Cryosophila (105 ) Desmoncus (184 ) Dictyocaryum (8 ) Dictyosperma (4 ) Elaeis (56 ) Erythea (1 ) Euterpe (261 ) Geonoma (1081 ) Guilielma (1 ) Hyospathe (78 ) Iriartea (67 ) Iriartella (70 ) Jessenia (12 ) Jubaea (6 ) Latania (2 ) Leopoldinia (36 ) Lepidocaryum (36 ) Manicaria (70 ) Mauritia (30 ) Mauritiella (53 ) Maximiliana (12 ) Metroxylon (1 ) Neonicholsonia (21 ) Oenocarpus (157 ) Opsiandra (1 ) Orbignya (35 ) Parajubaea (11 ) Paurotis (1 ) Phoenix (11 ) Pholidostachys (4 ) Phytelephas (53 ) Polyandrococos (4 ) Prestoea (136 ) Pritchardia (7 ) Ptychosperma (24 ) Reinhardtia (123 ) Rhapis (2 ) Roystonea (35 ) Sabal (58 ) Scheelea (22 ) Schippia (3 ) Socratea (104 ) Syagrus (202 ) Synechanthus (145 ) Thrinax (32 ) Trithrinax (6 ) Veitchia (4 ) Washingtonia (4 ) Welfia (34 ) Wendlandiella (3 ) Wettinia (88 ) Ynesa (4 ) Yuyba (1 )