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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
  • Acokanthera (35)
  • Adenium (9)
  • Alafia (48)
  • Allamanda (3)
  • Alstonia (15)
  • Ancylobothrys (9)
  • Anthoclitandra (8)
  • Baissea (58)
  • Callichilia (17)
  • Carissa (39)
  • Carpodinus (4)
  • Carvalhoa (1)
  • Catharanthus (4)
  • Clitandra (13)
  • Conopharyngia (9)
  • Cyclocotyla (1)
  • Cylindropsis (1)
  • Dewevrella (5)
  • Dictyophleba (9)
  • Diplorhynchus (11)
  • Farquharia (3)
  • Funtumia (40)
  • Guerkea (1)
  • Holarrhena (10)
  • Hunteria (18)
  • Isonema (12)
  • Landolphia (105)
  • Lanugia (1)
  • Lochnera (1)
  • Malouetia (5)
  • Mascarenhasia (3)
  • Motandra (10)
  • Oncinotis (40)
  • Orthopichonia (17)
  • Pachypodium (2)
  • Picralima (9)
  • Pleiocarpa (24)
  • Pleioceras (5)
  • Plumeria (2)
  • Pycnobotrya (5)
  • Rauvolfia (78)
  • Saba (16)
  • Schizozygia (3)
  • Strophanthus (86)
  • Tabernaemontana (63)
  • Tabernanthe (7)
  • Thevetia (2)
  • Vahadenia (1)
  • Vinca (1)
  • Voacanga (43)