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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
  • Acrostichum (22)
  • Actiniopteris (51)
  • Adiantum (171)
  • Afropteris (1)
  • Aleuritopteris (28)
  • Anogramma (6)
  • Antrophyum (29)
  • Argyrochosma (1)
  • Ceratopteris (27)
  • Cheilanthes (59)
  • Coniogramme (17)
  • Doryopteris (21)
  • Haplopteris (55)
  • Onychium (3)
  • Pellaea (101)
  • Pityrogramma (30)
  • Pteris (328)
  • Syngramma (1)
  • Vittaria (3)