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
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Amphiscopia (2 ) Anisacanthus (3 ) Aphelandra (198 ) Averia (2 ) Avicennia (20 ) Beloperone (25 ) Blechum (10 ) Bravaisia (5 ) Buceragenia (1 ) Carlowrightia (2 ) Chaetochlamys (4 ) Chaetothylax (8 ) Chamaeranthemum (2 ) Cuenotia (1 ) Cyphisia (1 ) Dicliptera (52 ) Duvernoia (1 ) Dyschoriste (5 ) Ebermaiera (2 ) Elytraria (2 ) Encephalosphaera (2 ) Fittonia (1 ) Geissomeria (1 ) Glockeria (3 ) Habracanthus (41 ) Hansteinia (1 ) Henrya (7 ) Herpetacanthus (5 ) Hygrophila (3 ) Hypoestes (1 ) Jacobinia (5 ) Justicia (170 ) Kalbreyeriella (3 ) Lepidagathis (2 ) Lophostachys (6 ) Louteridium (5 ) Megalostoma (1 ) Mendoncia (81 ) Neriacanthus (5 ) Odontonema (14 ) Oplonia (1 ) Pachystachys (19 ) Poikilacanthus (6 ) Pranceacanthus (1 ) Pseuderanthemum (26 ) Psilanthele (1 ) Razisea (4 ) Ruellia (96 ) Sanchezia (63 ) Schaueria (1 ) Sericographis (1 ) Siphonoglossa (4 ) Spathacanthus (1 ) Staurogyne (7 ) Stenandrium (5 ) Stenostephanus (10 ) Stephanophysum (1 ) Streblacanthus (3 ) Suessenguthia (4 ) Teliostachya (2 ) Tetramerium (6 ) Thunbergia (3 ) Thyrsacanthus (2 ) Trichanthera (9 )