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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
  • Achyranthes (53)
  • Aerva (53)
  • Alternanthera (42)
  • Amaranthus (51)
  • Celosia (69)
  • Centemopsis (2)
  • Chionothrix (4)
  • Cyathula (58)
  • Cyphocarpa (1)
  • Digera (5)
  • Gomphrena (6)
  • Hermbstaedtia (2)
  • Lagrezia (2)
  • Marcellia (3)
  • Nothosaerua (3)
  • Pandiaka (3)
  • Philoxerus (6)
  • Pleuropterantha (1)
  • Psilotrichum (18)
  • Pupalia (25)
  • Sericocomopsis (2)
  • Sericostachys (7)