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Clifton Smith Herbarium, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden - Bryophytes (SBBG)

The SBBG herbaria house the region's largest scientific collection of preserved Central Coast and California Channel Islands vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, and macrofungi. Across these collections, the Garden curates approximately 205,000 specimens. Vascular plant specimen data are served on this portal (https://cch2.org/). Lichen specimen data are served on the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/). Macrofungus specimen data are served on the Mycology Collections Portal (https://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php). Bryophyte data are not yet served digitally.

Director: C. Matt Guilliams, mguilliams@sbbg.org
Homepage: https://www.sbbg.org/explore-garden/pritzlaff-conservation-center/herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 948e88e5-74e4-495a-afda-0ad722d5d92d
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 646 specimen records
  • 147 (23%) georeferenced
  • 580 (90%) identified to species
  • 51 families
  • 91 genera
  • 192 species
  • 195 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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