HERBARIA and COLLECTIONS

This is an alphabetically arranged list of international herbaria and living collections. These are large searchable databases which contain thousands of species.

Last updated: March 30, 1995
.

Arnold Arboretum Living Collections

The Arnold Arboretum began in 1872 and its catalog now has records for 14,889 individual trees, shrubs, and vines.
Access to a searchable database containing 5,191 distinct species and varieties, with taxonomic data and location on the Arboretum grounds.
Australian National Herbarium
The herbarium is located in Canberra as part of the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
The database is searchable by several access points, including plant name, family name, and collector.
Brazilian Herbaria
From the Base de Dados Tropical, this is a searchable index to the holdings of the major herbaria in Brazil. Portuguese and English.
California Academy of Science Botanical Type Specimens
This type specimen catalog contains over 9,000 records of the collections of the California Academy of Science Herbarium and the Herbarium of Stanford University.
Gopher menu provides access to a searchable database and explanatory material.
Conneticut College Herbarium
Although still under construction, this collection of 12,000 specimens is being entered into a searchable database. Eventually both text and images will be available. Expect frequent down time periods for awhile.

Farlow Diatom Collection (Harvard)
The Farlow Herbarium contains a large number of published diatom exsiccatae, and has cataloged approximately 13,000 associated records in the collection.
Gopher menu with direct access to the searchable database, information on how to search, as well as background and update information.
Gray Herbarium Index (Harvard)
The Gray Herbarium Index is a database of over 287,000 records of New World vascular plant taxa dating from 1886.
Gopher menu with direct access to the searchable database, information on how to search, as well as background and update information.
Peabody Museum Paleobotany Collection (Yale)
The Peabody Museum Paleobotany Collecton dates from 1853 and contains over 100,000 specimens. During the 1980's it acquired the collections of the New York Botanical Garden and of Princeton College. This index is the first phase of a project to computerize 45,000 specimens, with over 29,000 currently completed.
Gopher menu with direct access to the searchable database, information on how to search, as well as background and update information.
Plant Fossil Record Database
This searchable database contains descriptions of thousands of extinct plants. Retrieved records can be plotted on a global map.
Access through the International Organization of Paleobotany Home Page.
Swedish Museum of Natural History
In the scientific collections section scroll down to botanical collections for the major herbaria in Sweden.
The Linnean Herbarium is accompanied by Swedish text, but a major source of information.
Type specimen collections for the Scandinavian and Regnell Herbaria and for Phanerogams are also found here.
The Cryptogamic Department presents an English language home page with access to a list of all the lichens in the museum.
U.S. National Herbarium Type Specimen Register
Compiled as a project of the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution, the register cataloges over 88,000 type specimens of flowering plants, ferns, and non-vascular plants.
Access to searchable database and explanatory and background information.
University of Florida Herbarium
The combined herbarium and affiliated paleobotanical collections contain over 500,000 specimens of fungi, bryophytes and lichens, vascular plant flora and paleobotanical specimens.
The searchable database is under construction with only the index to families of vascular plants currently available. Access is available to the Generic Flora of Southeastern U.S. Project.
University of Texas Herbarium
A searchable database from the University of Texas Herbarium Type Register.
Over 1.1 million specimens are included from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central America.

 

 
RETORNAR INDEX SUBIR DOCUMENTO