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: 2 October 2024

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, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2024-10-15).

Collection Statistics

230,759 specimen records
148,973 (65%) georeferenced
202,048 (88%) with images (626,209 total images)
203,483 (88%) identified to species
52 families
489 genera
11,235 species
11,953 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

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Geographic Distribution - Germany

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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: 2 October 2024 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, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2024-10-15). Collection Statistics 230,759 specimen records 148,973 (65%) georeferenced 202,048 (88%) with images (626,209 total images) 203,483 (88%) identified to species 52 families 489 genera 11,235 species 11,953 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution Geographic Distribution - Germany Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term Bavaria (1) Berlin (13) North Rhine-Westphalia (1) Rhineland-Palatinate (2)
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.