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University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)

The bryophyte collection at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) houses approximately 500 collections of bryophytes. Most of these collections were made in the 1960's by James D. Perry, previous herbarium curator, and most were made in the Southern Appalachians. There are also about 2000 lichen collections from the same region.
Contacts: David Clarke, dclarke@unca.edu
Homepage: https://biology.unca.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 24bc18ef-bbb1-4755-82de-81edc684bd21
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/dwca/UNCA_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 158 specimen records
  • 106 (67%) georeferenced
  • 158 (100%) identified to species
  • 46 families
  • 93 genera
  • 123 species
  • 125 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics