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West Virginia University Herbarium (WVA)

Contacts: Donna Ford-Werntz, dford2@wvu.edu
Homepage: https://biology.wvu.edu/about/facilities/wvu-herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 October 2022
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://pteridoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/WVA_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Cite this collection:
West Virginia University Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: d3131093-6074-41c0-b67c-b332f4b49183) https://pteridoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/WVA_DwC-A.zip accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2024-05-18).
Collection Statistics
  • 8,732 specimen records
  • 2,414 (28%) georeferenced
  • 8,406 (96%) with images (8,456 total images)
  • 8,511 (97%) identified to species
  • 39 families
  • 159 genera
  • 701 species
  • 806 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Massachusetts
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Barnstable (3)
  • Berkshire (2)
  • Dukes (6)
  • Essex (4)
  • Franklin (13)
  • Hampden (11)
  • Hampshire (26)
  • Middlesex (1)
  • Norfolk (6)
  • Plymouth (3)
  • Suffolk (1)