Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
- building a Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
University of Washington Herbarium (WTU-Bryophytes)
The University of Washington Herbarium (also known as WTU) is an international resource for research into the diversity, distribution and ecology of Pacific Northwest vascular plants, non-vascular plants, fungi, lichen, and algae. With over 600,000 specimens currently in the collections and between 5,000-10,000 specimens added annually, WTU is one of the largest herbaria in the region.
Contacts: David Giblin, Collections Manager, wtu@u.washington.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/WTU-Bryophytes_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 76,669 specimen records
- 46,942 (61%) georeferenced
- 25,022 (33%) with images (25,909 total images)
- 73,318 (96%) identified to species
- 164 families
- 557 genera
- 3,165 species
- 3,887 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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