Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM-YU)

Founded in 1864 by Daniel Cady Eaton from his personal library and plant collection, the Yale Herbarium is an internationally recognized repository with holdings of approximately 350,000 specimens from throughout the world. There are an estimated 6,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from early botanical collectors. In addition, it was the herbarium of record for the flora of southern New England from 1864 until 1955, when that function passed to the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

Senior Collections Manager: Patrick Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu, 203-432-3537

Homepage: https://peabody.yale.edu/explore/collections/botany

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 44b6a77e-4e99-4761-83ca-f6af93a7d0d9

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Access Rights: http://peabody.yale.edu/about-us/terms-use-what-you-need-know

Cite this collection:

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset (ID: 44b6a77e-4e99-4761-83ca-f6af93a7d0d9) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-01).

Collection Statistics

20,440 specimen records
11,171 (55%) georeferenced
19,642 (96%) with images (19,642 total images)
17,297 (85%) identified to species
56 families
295 genera
3,656 species
3,877 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM-YU) Founded in 1864 by Daniel Cady Eaton from his personal library and plant collection, the Yale Herbarium is an internationally recognized repository with holdings of approximately 350,000 specimens from throughout the world. There are an estimated 6,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from early botanical collectors. In addition, it was the herbarium of record for the flora of southern New England from 1864 until 1955, when that function passed to the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Senior Collections Manager: Patrick Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu, 203-432-3537 Homepage: https://peabody.yale.edu/explore/collections/botany Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal Global Unique Identifier: 44b6a77e-4e99-4761-83ca-f6af93a7d0d9 Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Access Rights: http://peabody.yale.edu/about-us/terms-use-what-you-need-know Cite this collection: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset (ID: 44b6a77e-4e99-4761-83ca-f6af93a7d0d9) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-01). Collection Statistics 20,440 specimen records 11,171 (55%) georeferenced 19,642 (96%) with images (19,642 total images) 17,297 (85%) identified to species 56 families 295 genera 3,656 species 3,877 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution
The PCC, and this data portal, were made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, grant numbers 1802504, 1802352, 1802134, 1802033, 1802270, 1802255, 1802239, 1802446, 1802305. The pteridoportal taxonomic thesaurus is based on the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, generously provided by Michael Hassler.