National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution - Botany (NMNH-Plantae)

Contacts: Thomas Orrell, orrellt@si.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 October 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 62,164 specimen records
  • 7,278 (12%) georeferenced
  • 52,582 (85%) with images (53,507 total images)
  • 56,404 (91%) identified to species
  • 384 families
  • 2,214 genera
  • 8,405 species
  • 8,860 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthophora (50)
  • Amansia (5)
  • Bostrychia (16)
  • Bryothamnion (84)
  • Chondria (56)
  • Chondrophycus (4)
  • Digenea (6)
  • Herposiphonia (11)
  • Janczewskia (2)
  • Laurencia (63)
  • Lophocladia (2)
  • Lophosiphonia (2)
  • Murrayella (2)
  • Osmundaria (2)
  • Polysiphonia (41)
  • Wrightiella (3)