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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 Homepage: http://botany.si.edu/ Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 6 May 2014 Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Collection Statistics
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