Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Bryophytes (PH)

PH (the official, internationally recognized abbreviation for the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences) is the oldest institutional herbarium in U.S. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850, with some dating from as early as 1689.

Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 921fe619-c251-4b3b-9ee4-447c586b44cb
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 61,340 specimen records
  • 31,205 (51%) georeferenced
  • 46,961 (77%) with images (54,868 total images)
  • 53,367 (87%) identified to species
  • 191 families
  • 683 genera
  • 4,364 species
  • 4,852 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anisothecium (31)
  • Aongstroemia (6)
  • Arctoa (5)
  • Atractylocarpus (1)
  • Braunfelsia (5)
  • Brothera (13)
  • Bryohumbertia (2)
  • Campylopodium (1)
  • Campylopus (74)
  • Chorisodontium (1)
  • Cnestrum (1)
  • Cynodontium (49)
  • Dichodontium (45)
  • Dicnemon (2)
  • Dicranella (698)
  • Dicranodontium (27)
  • Dicranoloma (14)
  • Dicranoweisia (55)
  • Dicranum (3774)
  • Holomitrium (7)
  • Kiaeria (34)
  • Leucobryum (60)
  • Leucoloma (13)
  • Metzleria (2)
  • Microdus (5)
  • Octoblepharum (3)
  • Oncophorus (66)
  • Oreas (2)
  • Oreoweisia (2)
  • Orthodicranum (24)
  • Paraleucobryum (92)
  • Pilopogon (6)
  • Rhabdoweisia (37)
  • Symblepharis (4)