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).
Contacts: Rusty Russell, Collections Manager, russellr@si.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 May 2014
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.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Bolivar
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Aripao (2 ) Ascención Farreras (1 ) Caroni (1 ) Cedeno Dist. (1 ) Cedero (1 ) Cedeño (25 ) Disto. Heres (1 ) Disto. Piar (1 ) Distr. Cedeño (3 ) Distr. Piar (1 ) Distr. Roscio (2 ) Distrito de Heres (1 ) Dsto. Cedeño (1 ) Dsto. Heres (5 ) Dsto. Piar (52 ) Dsto. Roscio (10 ) Dsto. Roscio, Mpio. Urdaneta (1 ) Dsto. Sifontes (1 ) El Dorado Mun. (1 ) Gran Sabana (8 ) Gran Sabana Dist. (2 ) Gran Sabana Mun. (1 ) Heres (7 ) Heres Dist. (3 ) Mount Roraima (3 ) Mpio. Cedeño (2 ) Mpio. Gran Sabana (18 ) Mpio. Raul Leoni (1 ) Mun. Gran Sabana (1 ) Municipio Gran Sabana (2 ) Piar (46 ) Piar Dept. (17 ) Piar Dist (1 ) Piar Dist. (32 ) Raul Leoni (2 ) Raul Leoni ? (2 ) Raul Leoni Mun. (1 ) Rio Venamo (1 ) Roscio (12 ) Roscio Dist. (1 ) Sifontes (2 ) Sucre (4 ) Sucre Mun. (1 ) Upata Mun. (1 )