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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: 21 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 72,945 specimen records
  • 13,543 (19%) georeferenced
  • 65,751 (90%) with images (70,428 total images)
  • 7 GenBank genetic references
  • 62,982 (86%) identified to species
  • 496 families
  • 2,939 genera
  • 13,419 species
  • 13,963 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthodium (1)
  • Acanthopale (9)
  • Acanthus (38)
  • Afrofittonia (3)
  • Afromendoncia (5)
  • Anisosepalum (12)
  • Anisotes (7)
  • Ascotheca (1)
  • Asteracantha (6)
  • Asystasia (86)
  • Avicennia (19)
  • Barleria (99)
  • Blepharis (57)
  • Brachystephanus (12)
  • Brillantaisia (44)
  • Chlamydacanthus (2)
  • Chlamydostachya (1)
  • Crabbea (6)
  • Crossandra (37)
  • Dicliptera (30)
  • Dinteracanthus (1)
  • Dischistocalyx (3)
  • Duosperma (10)
  • Dyschoriste (45)
  • Ecbolium (8)
  • Elytraria (3)
  • Eranthemum (6)
  • Eremomastax (7)
  • Graptophyllum (2)
  • Hygrophila (27)
  • Hypoestes (102)
  • Isoglossa (37)
  • Justicia (308)
  • Lankesteria (29)
  • Lepidagathis (27)
  • Macrorungia (1)
  • Megalochlamys (6)
  • Mellera (17)
  • Mendoncia (3)
  • Mimulopsis (13)
  • Monechma (5)
  • Monothecium (3)
  • Nelsonia (25)
  • Neuracanthus (2)
  • Odontonema (1)
  • Peristrophe (12)
  • Petalidium (18)
  • Phaulopsis (48)
  • Physacanthus (9)
  • Pseuderanthemum (30)
  • Pseudocalyx (1)
  • Rhaphidospora (2)
  • Rhinacanthus (13)
  • Rostellularia (1)
  • Ruellia (29)
  • Rungia (16)
  • Ruspolia (3)
  • Ruttya (5)
  • Sanchezia (2)
  • Satanocrater (3)
  • Schaueria (2)
  • Schwabea (1)
  • Sclerochiton (22)
  • Staurogyne (5)
  • Stenandriopsis (4)
  • Strobilanthes (1)
  • Strobilanthopsis (2)
  • Teliostachya (1)
  • Thunbergia (85)
  • Tyloglossa (3)
  • Whitfieldia (36)