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Missouri Botanical Garden - in process of being digitized (MO-in-process)

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 2020 the herbarium collection had 6.93 million mounted specimens (6.33 million vascular plants and 598,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.7 million records (4.3 million vascular plants and 380,000 bryophytes).

Collection Statistics

  • 99,721 specimen records
  • 225 (0.23%) georeferenced
  • 99,721 (100%) with images (99,740 total images)
  • 97,016 (97%) identified to species
  • 133 families
  • 530 genera
  • 2,267 species
  • 2,475 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
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Global Unique Identifier: baf21610-f6f7-43f3-bd42-12fbf44fc5c2
Digital Metadata: EML File
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