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
Achimenes (327 ) Aeschynanthus (2 ) Alloplectus (242 ) Alsobia (4 ) Amalophyllon (54 ) Anetanthus (28 ) Besleria (3425 ) Brachyloma (3 ) Bucinella (3 ) Bucinellina (1 ) Calanthus (1 ) Capanea (13 ) Centrosolenia (4 ) Chrysothemis (268 ) Cobananthus (12 ) Codonanthe (772 ) Codonanthopsis (70 ) Columnea (5296 ) Corytholoma (2 ) Corytoplectus (258 ) Crantzia (13 ) Cremersia (2 ) Cremosperma (355 ) Cremospermopsis (26 ) Cryptoloma (2 ) Dalbergaria (9 ) Diastema (526 ) Drymonia (4106 ) Episcia (234 ) Fiebrigia (1 ) Fluckigeria (2 ) Fritschiantha (1 ) Gasteranthus (835 ) Gesneria (12 ) Glossoloma (1431 ) Gloxinella (2 ) Gloxinia (288 ) Gloxiniopsis (14 ) Goyazia (6 ) Halphophyllum (1 ) Heppiella (290 ) Isoloma (4 ) Koellikeria (1 ) Kohleria (1654 ) Lembocarpus (10 ) Lietzia (1 ) Mandirola (10 ) Monopyle (546 ) Moussonia (148 ) Napeanthus (221 ) Nautilocalyx (909 ) Nematanthus (208 ) Neomortonia (81 ) Niphaea (3 ) Nomopyle (26 ) Oerstedina (19 ) Paliavana (59 ) Paradrymonia (596 ) Parakohleria (20 ) Pearcea (365 ) Pentadenia (5 ) Phinaea (11 ) Pterobesleria (1 ) Rechsteineria (3 ) Reldia (60 ) Resia (21 ) Rhoogeton (22 ) Rhynchoglossum (31 ) Rufodorsia (101 ) Seemannia (322 ) Sinningia (675 ) Solenophora (141 ) Sphaerorrhiza (19 ) Trichantha (8 ) Vanhouttea (9 )
