Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, UK (RBG-K)

Funded as a government institution in 1841; Kew herbarium and library founded in 1852. Around 7 million vascular plant specimens (including approximately 330,000 types) and 1.25 million fungi specimens. This dataset has been updated to follow the APG IV system.

Contact: Alan Paton, Head of Collections (a.paton@kew.org)

Home Page: https://apps.kew.org/herbcat/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 2 April 2020

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: Royal Botanic Garden

Access Rights: Public Domain

Collection Statistics

212 specimen records
0 georeferenced
78 (37%) identified to species
37 families
17 genera
28 species
29 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Family Distribution

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Acanthaceae (1)
Asparagaceae (11)
Asteraceae (2)
Balsaminaceae (1)
Begoniaceae (1)
Cactaceae (6)
Chrysobalanaceae (11)
Convolvulaceae (1)
Cyperaceae (5)
Dioscoreaceae (6)
Eriocaulaceae (2)
Euphorbiaceae (1)
Fabaceae (39)
Gleicheniaceae (4)
Hymenophyllaceae (3)
Lamiaceae (9)
Lentibulariaceae (1)
Lomariopsidaceae (1)
Loranthaceae (6)
Malvaceae (1)
Myricaceae (1)
Myrsinaceae (1)
Myrtaceae (8)
Oleaceae (1)
Oleandraceae (1)
Orchidaceae (10)
Poaceae (7)
Podocarpaceae (2)
Polypodiaceae (1)
Proteaceae (1)
Pteridaceae (3)
Ranunculaceae (1)
Rosaceae (1)
Rubiaceae (17)
Santalaceae (4)
Scrophulariaceae (2)
Solanaceae (39)