University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection

Linda Jennings

doi:10.5886/rtt57cc9

University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection

Citation

Jennings L (2017). University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection. Version 16.2. University of British Columbia. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.5886/rtt57cc9 accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-04-21.

Description

This dataset includes all digitized vascular plants in the UBC collection, encompassing approximately 68% of the collection. The UBC Herbarium has one of the world’s largest collections of British Columbia vascular plants and is worldwide in scope. At present, the collection includes more than 235,000 accessioned specimens.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Plantae
common name: Plants rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

The UBC Herbarium has one of the world’s largest collections of British Columbia vascular plants and is worldwide in scope. Of the 235,000 vascular plant specimens, about 52% are from British Columbia. About 18% are from the rest of Canada, with the Northwest Territories and Yukon especially well represented. Specimens from the United States make up about 15% of the collection, with 8% from the five Pacific Coast states (California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska) and 7% from the rest of the United States. Hawaiian plants are especially well represented. About 15% of the collection is from the rest of the world, with the largest numbers from Great Britain, Finland, China, Australia, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, Taiwan, Russia, Greenland, and Sweden.

Bibliographic Citations

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Rai, H.S., Reeves, P.A., Peakall, R., Olmstead, R.G., Graham, S.W. 2008. Inference of higher-order conifer relationships from a multi-locus plastid data set. Botany 86(7): 658-669. - http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/B08-062
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 161(2): 105-121. - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract
Haston, E., Richardson, J.E., Stevens, P.F., Chase, M.W., Harris, D.J. 2009. The Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG) III: a linear sequence of the families in APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 161(2): 128-131. - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01000.x/abstract

Contacts

Linda Jennings
originator
position: Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (604) 822-9740
email: linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca
homepage: http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/

Linda Jennings
metadata author
position: Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (604) 822-9740
email: linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca
homepage: http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/

Jeannette Whitton
principal investigator
position: Director & Curator, Vascular Plants
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: jeannette.whitton@botany.ubc.ca
homepage: http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/jwhitton.html

Linda Jennings
custodian steward
position: Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (604) 822-9740
email: linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca
homepage: http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/

Sean Graham
principal investigator
position: Curator, Monocots and Basal Angiosperms
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: sean.graham@ubc.ca
homepage: http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/sgraham.html

Quentin Cronk
principal investigator
position: Curator, Eudicots
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: quentin.cronk@ubc.ca
homepage: http://cronklab.wikidot.com/

publisher
University of British Columbia
2329 West Mall
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA

Linda Jennings
administrative point of contact
position: Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (604) 822-9740
email: linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca
homepage: http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/