Emory University Bryophyte Herbarium (GEO)

The Emory University Herbarium (GEO) has more than 20,200 plant specimens, dating back to the early 1900s. The majority of the collection is composed of plants from the southeast USA collected by Don E. Eyles (aquatic plants), Robert F. Thorne (Flora of SW Georgia) and Madeline L. Burbanck (granite rock outcrop plants). Recent collections more focused on our growing global collection from the Mediterranean and Balkans (medicinal plants) and Australia (pollinator ecology).
Contacts: Tharanga Samarakoon, Collections Manager, tsamarakoon@emory.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 April 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 255 specimen records
  • 224 (88%) georeferenced
  • 236 (93%) with images (236 total images)
  • 243 (95%) identified to species
  • 61 families
  • 91 genera
  • 149 species
  • 149 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution