Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
- building a Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
National Tropical Botanical Garden - Bryophyte collection (PTBG)
PTBG houses about 5,500 specimens of bryophytes and 1430 lichens primarily from Hawaiʻi, and the broader tropical Pacific region, which includes the Polynesia-Micronesia biodiversity hotspot.
Curator: Tim Flynn, tflynn@ntbg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 June 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Rights Holder: National Tropical Botanical Garden
Collection Statistics
- 6,065 specimen records
- 3,861 (64%) georeferenced
- 5,495 (91%) with images (13,302 total images)
- 4,777 (79%) identified to species
- 134 families
- 415 genera
- 1,040 species
- 1,040 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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