University of Minnesota (MIN)
Contacts: George Weiblen, museum-herbarium@umn.edu
Homepage: https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/plants/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 July 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Cite this collection:
University of Minnesota. Occurrence dataset (ID: 76046370-d088-4526-9c93-e703b140a227) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2024-07-26).
Collection Statistics
- 26,498 specimen records
- 15,536 (59%) georeferenced
- 9,414 (36%) with images (9,432 total images)
- 25,277 (95%) identified to species
- 47 families
- 169 genera
- 1,423 species
- 1,504 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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.