Missouri Botanical Garden, USA (MOBOT-MO)
The Missouri Botanical Garden's Herbarium is one of the world's outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 2018 the collection has nearly 7 million specimens. It is the second largest herbarium in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
Contact: James Solomon, Curator of Vascular Plants (jim.solomon@mobot.org)
Home Page: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/resources/herbarium.aspx
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 April 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
- 1,449 specimen records
- 0 georeferenced
- 263 (18%) identified to species
- 125 families
- 73 genera
- 99 species
- 106 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Copyright (c)2020. Data portal development has been supported through the cooperation of Biocultural Diversity International and the National Herbarium of Rwanda (NHR)
at the Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management (CoEB).
We are currently actively seeking additional funding for this project.
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