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University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History Herbarium Bryophyte Collection (COLO-B)

Herbarium COLO is the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on the Boulder campus. The Herbarium is available to anyone with an interest in botany. Users include faculty and students, visiting scholars, private consultants, local naturalists, and botanists from a variety of public and private agencies.

This dataset contains the North American portion of COLO Bryophyte collection. Approximately 50,000 specimens from the rest of the world have not been digitized.

No work has been done to georeference this collection. Any coordinates provided are from the collector's label and have not been verified.

Collection strengths: Colorado, Southern Rocky Mountains and Western North American vascular plants and cryptogams, worldwide arctic and alpine, Appalachia, Galapagos Lichens, Australia, New Guinea, Altai, Mexico and the Seville Flowers Bryophyte Collection.

Contacts: J Ryan Allen, james.r.allen@Colorado.EDU
Collection Manager: Dina Clark, dina.clark@colorado.edu
Homepage: http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/research/botany
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c861ca9b-2edf-47f4-ba05-989db6fa53b1
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/COLO-B_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 83,629 specimen records
  • 16,832 (20%) georeferenced
  • 80,453 (96%) with images (83,099 total images)
  • 81,941 (98%) identified to species
  • 169 families
  • 713 genera
  • 4,587 species
  • 4,722 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics