Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.

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.

Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu

Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu

Homepage: http://www.ansp.org/research/systematics-evolution/collections/botany/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 1 July 2024

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Collection Statistics

2,688 specimen records
723 (27%) georeferenced
2,556 (95%) with images (2,608 total images)
2,029 (75%) identified to species
151 families
679 genera
1,332 species
1,371 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

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Geographic Distribution - Dabakala

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