Duke University (DUKE)
The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, lichens, and basidiomycete fungi, including more than 1900 types. The collection is especially rich in specimens from the southeastern United States, but has synoptic representation worldwide.
Contacts: Layne Huiet, rlh22@duke.edu
Homepage: https://herbarium.duke.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 December 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Cite this collection:
Duke University. Occurrence dataset (ID: 72d3fa91-8c56-4909-bdab-1adee22656e7) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-10).
Collection Statistics
- 26,444 specimen records
- 678 (3%) georeferenced
- 14,031 (53%) with images (27,854 total images)
- 25,405 (96%) identified to species
- 48 families
- 282 genera
- 3,041 species
- 3,106 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.