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Wesley E. Niles Herbarium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

The herbarium collection consists of approximately 65,000 specimens of vascular plants, and a small but rapidly expanding number of mosses and liverworts.
Contacts: Kathryn Birgy, Collections Manager, kathryn.birgy@unlv.edu
Homepage: http://www.unlv.edu/lifesciences/herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8234825f-209e-49bb-a6dc-7ab406bb0f4d
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/UNLV_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 3,154 specimen records
  • 1,554 (49%) georeferenced
  • 3,154 (100%) with images (6,525 total images)
  • 2,720 (86%) identified to species
  • 80 families
  • 218 genera
  • 578 species
  • 634 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics