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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
  • Acalypha (173)
  • Adenocline (1)
  • Alchornea (57)
  • Aleurites (3)
  • Amanoa (3)
  • Anthostema (7)
  • Antidesma (71)
  • Argomuellera (15)
  • Bridelia (86)
  • Caperonia (2)
  • Cavacoa (4)
  • Cephalocroton (2)
  • Chaetocarpus (1)
  • Chamaesyce (2)
  • Chrozophora (7)
  • Claoxylon (3)
  • Cleidion (2)
  • Cleistanthus (25)
  • Clutia (26)
  • Croton (31)
  • Crotonogyne (14)
  • Cyclostemon (9)
  • Cyrtogonone (5)
  • Dalechampia (14)
  • Dichostemma (12)
  • Discoclaoxylon (10)
  • Discoglypremna (12)
  • Drypetes (86)
  • Duvigneaudia (4)
  • Erythrococca (47)
  • Euphorbia (190)
  • Excoecaria (2)
  • Flueggea (19)
  • Gelonium (2)
  • Givotia (3)
  • Grossera (10)
  • Hamilcoa (1)
  • Hevea (5)
  • Hura (1)
  • Hymenocardia (14)
  • Jatropha (14)
  • Klaineanthus (7)
  • Lepidococca (2)
  • Lepidoturus (1)
  • Macaranga (88)
  • Mallotus (26)
  • Manihot (5)
  • Manniophyton (8)
  • Maprounea (16)
  • Mareya (23)
  • Mareyopsis (3)
  • Margaritaria (25)
  • Micrococca (4)
  • Mildbraedia (5)
  • Monadenium (3)
  • Necepsia (12)
  • Neoboutonia (13)
  • Neoholstia (2)
  • Paranecepsia (1)
  • Phyllanthus (162)
  • Plukenetia (6)
  • Pseudagrostistachys (5)
  • Pycnocoma (8)
  • Ricinodendron (17)
  • Ricinus (7)
  • Sapium (44)
  • Suregada (15)
  • Synadenium (5)
  • Tannodia (1)
  • Tetracarpidium (2)
  • Tetrorchidium (24)
  • Tragia (28)
  • Tragiella (5)
  • Uapaca (57)