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University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH)

Specialty: Worldwide, especially temperate North America and the Great Lakes region. Specific strengths include marine algae of eastern North America, West Indies, Alaska, and Pacific Islands; bryophytes of tropical America; Agaricaceae and Hymenogastraceae of western North America; vascular plants of Mexico, Iran, Himalayas, southwestern Pacific Region, and southeastern Asia; Cyperaceae, Malpighiaceae, and Myrtaceae of the New World.
Date Founded: 1837.
Collection manager of fungi, lichens, bryophytes: Alison Harrington, alisonhh@umich.edu, +1(734)936-8028
Loan Requests: http://lsa.umich.edu/herbarium/collections/loan-requests.html
Homepage: https://lsa.umich.edu/herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 December 2023
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/MICH_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 148,320 specimen records
  • 41,900 (28%) georeferenced
  • 142,463 (96%) with images (152,055 total images)
  • 146,663 (99%) identified to species
  • 141 families
  • 822 genera
  • 6,247 species
  • 7,024 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics