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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
  • Bryoria (1)
  • Bulbothrix (14)
  • Canomaculina (1)
  • Canoparmelia (14)
  • Cetraria (1)
  • Cetrariastrum (1)
  • Evernia (1)
  • Everniastrum (5)
  • Everniopsis (3)
  • Flavoparmelia (2)
  • Flavopunctelia (1)
  • Hypotrachyna (12)
  • Karoowia (1)
  • Neofuscelia (1)
  • Paraparmelia (4)
  • Parmelia (9)
  • Parmelina (1)
  • Parmotrema (5)
  • Punctelia (1)
  • Usnea (42)