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United States National Herbarium - Smithsonian (US)

The United States National Herbarium was founded in 1848, when the first collections were accessioned from the United States Exploring Expedition (50,000 specimens of 10,000 species). Current holdings total 5 million specimens, making this collection among the ten largest in the world representing about 8% of the plant collection resources of the United States. The herbarium is especially rich in type specimens (@110,000).
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Collection Statistics

  • 175,530 specimen records
  • 19,661 (11%) georeferenced
  • 2,640 (2%) with images (5,085 total images)
  • 168,221 (96%) identified to species
  • 215 families
  • 1,057 genera
  • 11,508 species
  • 12,166 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 April 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Transfer from Internal IPT Parsing
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