Royal BC Museum - Herbarium (V)
Citation
Wheeler E, Guest H (2023). Royal BC Museum - Herbarium (V). Version 2.2. Royal British Columbia Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.5886/yxupar accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.Description
The Royal BC Museum herbarium (V) houses 218,000 vascular plants specimens, most of which (>90%) were collected within the limits of the province of British Columbia. Specimens from adjacent jurisdictions such as the Yukon, Alberta, Washington and Alaska make up a smaller part of our collection (<10%). Our earliest specimens were collected in the 1890's and during the first part of the 20th century by James R. Anderson and John Macoun. A recent focus of our collections is on the flora of alpine habitats in northern BC.Taxonomic Coverages
A large majority (>90%) of our specimens are of native or naturalized vascular plant taxa in British Columbia. We also have a small collection of bryophytes and lichens. Among vascular plants we have good collections of most angiosperm, gymnosperm and fern (and allies) taxa and extensive collections of some focal angiosperm families such as Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae and Salicaceae.
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Asteraceae
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Cyperaceae
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Poaceae
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Salicaceae
Geographic Coverages
British Columbia, Canada
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Erica Wheeleroriginator
position: Head of Collections, Care and Conservation
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria
V8W 9W2
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (250) 387-2918
email: ewheeler@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
homepage: https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/natural-history/botany
Heidi Guest
metadata author
position: Collections Manager Natural History | Collections Care and Conservation
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria
V8W 9W2
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (250) 387-2918
email: HGuest@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
homepage: https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/natural-history/botany
Heidi Guest
point of contact
position: Collections Manager Natural History | Collections Care and Conservation
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria
V8W 9W2
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (250) 387-2918
email: HGuest@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
homepage: https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/natural-history/botany
Kendrick Marr
curator
position: Botany Curator
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria
V8W 9W2
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (250) 386-8176
email: kmarr@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
homepage: http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/nh-collections/botany-plants/
Heidi Guest
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager Natural History | Collections Care and Conservation
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria
V8W 9W2
British Columbia
CA
Telephone: (250) 387-2918
email: HGuest@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
homepage: https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/natural-history/botany