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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
  • Amorphophallus (7)
  • Anchomanes (14)
  • Anubias (7)
  • Arisaema (8)
  • Callopsis (5)
  • Cercestis (7)
  • Colocasia (1)
  • Culcasia (47)
  • Epipremnum (1)
  • Gonatopus (5)
  • Lasimorpha (10)
  • Lemna (5)
  • Nephthytis (8)
  • Pistia (1)
  • Pseudohydrosme (2)
  • Rhaphidophora (4)
  • Sauromatum (2)
  • Stylochaeton (7)
  • Zamioculcas (4)
  • Zantedeschia (1)