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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
  • Arabidopsis (1)
  • Arabis (19)
  • Barbarea (2)
  • Brassica (9)
  • Capsella (2)
  • Cardamine (27)
  • Cochlearia (1)
  • Coronopus (2)
  • Crambe (2)
  • Erophila (1)
  • Eruca (1)
  • Erucastrum (5)
  • Farsetia (5)
  • Heliophila (1)
  • Lepidium (5)
  • Matthiola (3)
  • Morettia (1)
  • Raphanus (6)
  • Rorippa (10)
  • Sinapis (1)
  • Sisymbrium (2)
  • Subularia (6)