Collection Profile for: 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).
Collection Statistics
272,025 specimen records
167,317 (62%) georeferenced
147,413 (54%) with images (231,477 total images) 220,638 (81%) identified to species 478 families 4,667 genera 29,991 species 33,913 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
2 December 2024
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Alocasia (3 ) Amauriella (1 ) Ambrosinia (4 ) Amorphophallus (85 ) Anchomanes (118 ) Anthurium (2 ) Anubias (159 ) Arisaema (23 ) Arisarum (14 ) Arum (10 ) Biarum (3 ) Caladium (11 ) Calla (1 ) Callopsis (14 ) Cercestis (150 ) Colocasia (21 ) Culcasia (740 ) Cyrtosperma (25 ) Dieffenbachia (1 ) Dracunculus (3 ) Gonatopus (23 ) Lasimorpha (20 ) Lemna (2 ) Nephthytis (145 ) Philodendron (1 ) Pistia (60 ) Pothos (2 ) Protarum (1 ) Pseudohydrosme (2 ) Remusatia (12 ) Rhaphidophora (46 ) Rhektophyllum (14 ) Richardia (2 ) Sauromatum (6 ) Spirodela (1 ) Stylochaeton (24 ) Stylochiton (46 ) Syngonium (1 ) Typhonium (1 ) Typhonodorum (2 ) Wolffiella (1 ) Xanthosoma (5 ) Zamioculcas (6 ) Zantedeschia (35 )
