Duke University Herbarium Bryophyte Collection

doi:10.15468/bgfxdc

Duke University Herbarium Bryophyte Collection

Citation

Duke University Herbarium (2023). Duke University Herbarium Bryophyte Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/bgfxdc accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-09-23.

Description

The L. E. Anderson Bryophyte Herbarium includes approximately 260,000 specimens, of which some 220,000 are mosses. With about 50,000 moss collections from the southeastern United States, the DUKE collection is one of, if not the most important, resource for documenting the southeastern moss flora. Important collections of bryophytes include those of L.E. Anderson, H.L. Blomquist, M. Crosby, A.J. Grout, B.D. Mishler, W.B. Schofield, R. Schuster, A.J. Shaw, 48 bryophyte exsiccatae collections, and over 900 bryophyte type specimens.

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Contacts

originator
Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
email: BryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
homepage: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.php

metadata author
Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
email: BryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
homepage: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.php

administrative point of contact
Duke University Herbarium Bryophyte Collection
email: shaw@duke.edu
homepage: https://herbarium.duke.edu

Jonathan Shaw
content provider
position: Curator of Bryophytes
email: shaw@duke.edu

Blanka Aguero
content provider
position: Collections manager
email: blanka@duke.edu
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-5409