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Collection Profile for:
Indiana University Herbarium, Deam Herbarium (IND)
The Department of Biology administers the Indiana University Herbarium (IND). Founded in 1885, the herbarium houses over 155,000 specimens of vascular plants, including the collections of Charles C. Deam on which the Flora of Indiana is based.
This dataset contains only specimens collected in the following regions (if they exist in this collection):
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.
Contacts:
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Director: Eric Knox, eknox@indiana.edu
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Associate Curator Emeritus: Paul E. Rothrock, perothro@indiana.edu
Collection Statistics
- 4,246 specimen records
- 4,098 (97%) georeferenced
- 4,230 (100%) with images (4,532 total images)
- 167 GenBank genetic references
- 3,922 (92%) identified to species
- 107 families
- 414 genera
- 927 species
- 1,083 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)