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University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

The University of Florida Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium is affiliated with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Biology and the Department of Plant Pathology. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Our mission focuses in plant collections acquisition and care, research based on the collections, education and public service.
Contacts: Alan R. Franck, francka@ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b9ff7774-4a5d-47af-a2ea-bdf3ecc78885
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/FLAS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Rights Holder: University of Florida
Access Rights: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/about-us/overview/copyright-notice/
Collection Statistics
  • 35,818 specimen records
  • 24,627 (69%) georeferenced
  • 34,463 (96%) with images (35,827 total images)
  • 25,114 (70%) identified to species
  • 158 families
  • 624 genera
  • 2,941 species
  • 3,087 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics