United States National Herbarium (US)

This dataset contains only Pacific Island database records. 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.

Melinda Peters, Acquisitions and Exchange, petersm@si.edu
Meghann Toner, Herbarium Manager/Visitors, Interim Loans Officer, tonerm@si.edu
Joseph Kirkbride, kirkbridej@si.edu

Contacts: Rusty Russell, Program Director for Collectio, russellr@si.edu

Homepage: http://botany.si.edu/colls/collections_overview.htm

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 26 April 2016

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Smithsonian Institution

Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

Address:

United States National Herbarium

Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution

NMNH, MRC-166

P.O. Box 37012

Washington, District of Columbia 20013-7012

United States

[1] 202/ 633-0920

http://botany.si.edu/

Collection Statistics

85,217 specimen records
6,118 (7%) georeferenced
48,869 (57%) identified to species
502 families
1,678 genera
4,805 species
5,094 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

Show Geographic Distribution

Show Family Distribution

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Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile United States National Herbarium (US) This dataset contains only Pacific Island database records. 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. Melinda Peters, Acquisitions and Exchange, petersm@si.edu Meghann Toner, Herbarium Manager/Visitors, Interim Loans Officer, tonerm@si.edu Joseph Kirkbride, kirkbridej@si.edu Contacts: Rusty Russell, Program Director for Collectio, russellr@si.edu Homepage: http://botany.si.edu/colls/collections_overview.htm Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 26 April 2016 Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Rights Holder: Smithsonian Institution Access Rights: not-for-profit use only Address: United States National Herbarium Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution NMNH, MRC-166 P.O. Box 37012 Washington, District of Columbia 20013-7012 United States [1] 202/ 633-0920 http://botany.si.edu/ Collection Statistics 85,217 specimen records 6,118 (7%) georeferenced 48,869 (57%) identified to species 502 families 1,678 genera 4,805 species 5,094 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution
Development of the Consortium of Pacific Herbaria and several of the specimen databases have been supported by National Science Foundation Grants (BRC 1057303, ADBC 1304924 and ADBC1115116). Data Usage Policy. Continued support provided by the Symbiota Support Hub, a domain of iDigBio (NSF Award #2027654). Copyright 2015 University of Hawai‘i.