Oregon State University Vascular Plant Collection (OSC-V)
The Oregon State University Herbarium houses approximately 550,000 vascular plant, bryophyte, algal, and fungal specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with a focus on the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
Contacts: Thea Jaster, jastert@oregonstate.edu
Homepage: https://bpp.oregonstate.edu/herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 October 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Cite this collection:
Oregon State University Vascular Plant Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 10191017-8cee-42b0-a9b6-5dea543188a5) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-01).
Collection Statistics
- 8,023 specimen records
- 2,967 (37%) georeferenced
- 7,476 (93%) with images (14,030 total images)
- 5,980 (75%) identified to species
- 19 families
- 51 genera
- 186 species
- 178 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.