Missouri Botanical Garden (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 31 December 2015 the collection had 6.66 million specimens (6.1 million vascular plants and 563,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.4 million records (4.0 million vascular plants and 300,000 bryophytes).

Contacts: James Solomon, jim.solomon@mobot.org

Homepage: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 11 October 2022

IPT / DwC-A Source:

MO import
DwC-A from URL upload
IPT DwC-A import (Aug 2022)

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

Cite this collection:

Missouri Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset (ID: d4a6331d-c76e-4c90-bc3e-f17a7a9883d5) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-07).

Collection Statistics

249,916 specimen records
179,612 (72%) georeferenced
123,045 (49%) with images (227,100 total images)
214,771 (86%) identified to species
55 families
463 genera
10,259 species
10,957 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile Missouri Botanical Garden (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 31 December 2015 the collection had 6.66 million specimens (6.1 million vascular plants and 563,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.4 million records (4.0 million vascular plants and 300,000 bryophytes). Contacts: James Solomon, jim.solomon@mobot.org Homepage: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/ Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 11 October 2022 IPT / DwC-A Source: MO import DwC-A from URL upload IPT DwC-A import (Aug 2022) Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution) Cite this collection: Missouri Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset (ID: d4a6331d-c76e-4c90-bc3e-f17a7a9883d5) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-07). Collection Statistics 249,916 specimen records 179,612 (72%) georeferenced 123,045 (49%) with images (227,100 total images) 214,771 (86%) identified to species 55 families 463 genera 10,259 species 10,957 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.