Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
- building a Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium (ALA)
The Herbarium (ALA) contains more than 220,000 specimens of non-vascular and vascular plants and is the only major research herbarium in Alaska. The collection also includes plants from other states, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia, Japan, and Russia and provides a basis for teaching and research.
Contacts: Steffi M. Ickert-Bond, Curator, smickertbond@alaska.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ALA_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 45,258 specimen records
- 14,916 (33%) georeferenced
- 37,643 (83%) with images (40,815 total images)
- 1 GenBank genetic references
- 42,106 (93%) identified to species
- 156 families
- 463 genera
- 1,482 species
- 1,493 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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