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California Academy of Sciences Bryophyte dataset (CAS-BOT-BC)

The herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the largest collection of vascular plants in the western U.S. It is the sixth largest collection in the United States. The bryophytes comprise less than 5% of the collection, about 150,000 specimens. Together with the Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley (UC) the San Francisco Bay area is regarded as a National Resource Center for systematic botany. These two major collections have an informal agreement to avoid duplication, thus providing botanists with a rich and varied resource for research.

Contacts: Emily Magnaghi, emagnaghi@calacademy.org
Homepage: https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/botany-collections
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 September 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
California Academy of Sciences
Herbarium, Department of Botany
55 Music Concourse Drive
San Francisco, California   94118-4503
U.S.A.
Collection Statistics
  • 82,111 specimen records
  • 52,087 (63%) georeferenced
  • 55,632 (68%) with images (110,819 total images)
  • 79,931 (97%) identified to species
  • 136 families
  • 570 genera
  • 2,626 species
  • 2,841 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics