Missouri Botanical Garden Ferns (MO-Pteridophytes)

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. MO has 7,071,017 total accessioned specimens: 6,453,223 vascular plants and 617,794 bryophytes.

Contacts: Jordan Teisher, jteisher@mobot.org

Garden Resources: https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/resources.aspx

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 2 October 2023

IPT / DwC-A Source:

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

Rights Holder: Missouri Botanical Garden

Collection Statistics

10,302 specimen records
5,589 (54%) georeferenced
9,373 (91%) identified to species
38 families
167 genera
949 species
1,050 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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