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
Allamanda (4 ) Allomarkgrafia (2 ) Alstonia (1 ) Ambelania (14 ) Anacampta (1 ) Anartia (1 ) Angadenia (1 ) Aspidosperma (159 ) Bonafousia (7 ) Cameraria (1 ) Cascabela (2 ) Condylocarpon (7 ) Couma (27 ) Cufodontia (2 ) Dipladenia (3 ) Echites (13 ) Ervatamia (1 ) Fernaldia (2 ) Forsteronia (36 ) Galactophora (5 ) Geissospermum (5 ) Haemadictyon (1 ) Hancornia (4 ) Himatanthus (23 ) Lacmellea (22 ) Laseguea (2 ) Macoubea (7 ) Malouetia (32 ) Mandevilla (45 ) Mesechites (4 ) Microplumeria (1 ) Molongum (1 ) Mortoniella (3 ) Neocouma (3 ) Nerium (4 ) Odontadenia (25 ) Parahancornia (17 ) Peltastes (10 ) Peschiera (2 ) Plumeria (17 ) Prestonia (41 ) Quadricasaea (2 ) Rauvolfia (42 ) Rhabdadenia (7 ) Secondatia (1 ) Stemmadenia (15 ) Stenosolen (3 ) Tabernaemontana (102 ) Thenardia (1 ) Thevetia (7 ) Thyrsanthus (1 ) Tintinnabularia (1 ) Tonduzia (4 ) Vallesia (3 ) Vinca (1 ) Willoughbya (2 ) Woytkowskia (1 ) Zschokkea (16 )