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
Acalypha (139 ) Actinostemon (11 ) Adelia (3 ) Adenophaedra (2 ) Adenoropium (1 ) Alchornea (61 ) Alchorneopsis (8 ) Amanoa (17 ) Anisophyllum (1 ) Aparisthmium (14 ) Argythamnia (8 ) Astrocasia (1 ) Bernardia (9 ) Bridelia (1 ) Caperonia (7 ) Caryodendron (10 ) Celianella (1 ) Chaetocarpus (13 ) Chamaesyce (13 ) Cleidion (5 ) Cnidoscolus (13 ) Codiaeum (3 ) Conceveiba (28 ) Conceveibastrum (6 ) Croizatia (26 ) Croton (244 ) Cunuria (11 ) Dalechampia (22 ) Dendrothrix (1 ) Didymocistus (1 ) Discocarpus (1 ) Ditaxis (4 ) Dodecastigma (3 ) Drypetes (35 ) Euphorbia (117 ) Euphronia (2 ) Garcia (3 ) Gavarretia (3 ) Gitara (2 ) Glycydendron (11 ) Gymnanthes (4 ) Hevea (28 ) Hieronyma (63 ) Hippomane (2 ) Hura (24 ) Hyeronima (11 ) Jatropha (25 ) Joannesia (3 ) Julocroton (6 ) Mabea (83 ) Manihot (49 ) Maprounea (10 ) Margaritaria (10 ) Micrandra (9 ) Nealchornea (1 ) Omphalea (14 ) Ophellantha (2 ) Paradrypetes (3 ) Pausandra (19 ) Pedilanthus (2 ) Pera (32 ) Phyllanoa (1 ) Phyllanthus (85 ) Plukenetia (17 ) Pogonophora (16 ) Poinsettia (4 ) Poraresia (1 ) Richeria (11 ) Sagotia (6 ) Sandwithia (1 ) Sapium (75 ) Savia (1 ) Sebastiania (10 ) Securinega (1 ) Senefeldera (18 ) Senefelderopsis (1 ) Stillingia (4 ) Tepuianthus (3 ) Tetrorchidium (29 ) Tragia (10 )