College of Southern Nevada; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium
Citation
College of Southern Nevada (2024). College of Southern Nevada; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5cr9za accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
Founded in 1970 by Dr. Wesley E. Niles, the herbarium now holds about 70,000 specimens. Its primary focus is the vascular plant diversity in the Mojave Desert regions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. In 2023, the herbarium was transferred to the College of Southern Nevada. It is housed in the building A of the Henderson campus. Important collections include those of T. Ackerman (Desert National Wildlife Refuge); J. C. Beatley (Nevada Test Site); V. Bostick (central and southern Nevada); D. Charlet (Nevada); I.W. Clokey (Spring Mountains); M.Kurzius, D. Schramm, P. Peterson, and C. Annabel (Death Valley, California, and Nevada); S. Meyer (southern Nevada); A. Tiehm, A. Pinzl, and H. Mozingo (central and northern Nevada); W. Niles, P. Leary, J. Holland, and J. Alexander (Nevada, California, and Arizona), and L. Stark (bryophytes of southwestern deserts). Email marcus.hooker@csn.edu to request access to redacted data.
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Contacts
originatorConsortium of Intermountain Herbaria
email: seinetAdmin@asu.edu
homepage: https://intermountainbiota.org/portal/index.php
metadata author
Consortium of Intermountain Herbaria
email: seinetAdmin@asu.edu
homepage: https://intermountainbiota.org/portal/index.php
administrative point of contact
College of Southern Nevada; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium
email: matthew.mahrt@csn.edu
homepage: https://www.csn.edu/schools/school-of-science-engineering-and-mathematics/department-of-biological-sciences/herbarium
Matthew Mahrt
content provider
position: Curator
email: matthew.mahrt@csn.edu
Marcus Hooker
content provider
position: Collection Manager
email: marcus.hooker@csn.edu