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University of Vermont - Pringle Herbarium (VT)

The Pringle Herbarium (VT) contains 300,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae and fungi. Of these, this portal will contain about 180,000 vascular plant specimens, including all vascular plant specimens except for those from New England. Other digitization projects cover type specimens, vascular plant specimens from New England, North American bryophytes and lichens, macroalgae and macrofungi. These images and data are available through various other portals. The herbarium does not maintain its own online database.

Curator: Weston L. Testo, wtesto@uvm.edu
Homepage: http://www.uvm.edu/~plantbio/pringle/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Rights Holder: University of Vermont
Cite this collection:
University of Vermont - Pringle Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: 05099540-f2dc-4b13-ab25-17bb35f85691) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2024-04-16).
Collection Statistics
  • 36,415 specimen records
  • 18,703 (51%) georeferenced
  • 36,358 (100%) with images (49,773 total images)
  • 1 misc genetic references
  • 27,628 (76%) identified to species
  • 132 families
  • 386 genera
  • 4,078 species
  • 4,345 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Mexico
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