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Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Herbarium Pacificum) (BISH)

The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) collection consists of more than 710,000 plant, algae and fungi specimens. Our emphasis is on Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin, but we also house representative material from other world regions. The collections of Hawaiian plants form the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of such specimens in the world, with approximately 187,000 specimens.

Contacts: Barbara Kennedy, bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org

Homepage: https://www.bishopmuseum.org/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 16 March 2021

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

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Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Herbarium Pacificum). Occurrence dataset (ID: 1d1c50ed-29c9-4572-96b8-ba06a6bc4395) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-06).

Collection Statistics

46,752 specimen records
4,962 (11%) georeferenced
42,531 (91%) with images (42,531 total images)
42,746 (91%) identified to species
59 families
323 genera
3,468 species
3,621 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Herbarium Pacificum) (BISH) The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) collection consists of more than 710,000 plant, algae and fungi specimens. Our emphasis is on Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin, but we also house representative material from other world regions. The collections of Hawaiian plants form the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of such specimens in the world, with approximately 187,000 specimens. Contacts: Barbara Kennedy, bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org Homepage: https://www.bishopmuseum.org/ Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 16 March 2021 Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Cite this collection: Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Herbarium Pacificum). Occurrence dataset (ID: 1d1c50ed-29c9-4572-96b8-ba06a6bc4395) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-12-06). Collection Statistics 46,752 specimen records 4,962 (11%) georeferenced 42,531 (91%) with images (42,531 total images) 42,746 (91%) identified to species 59 families 323 genera 3,468 species 3,621 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.