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Missouri Botanical Garden (MO-MO)

The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2020 the herbarium collection had 6.93 million mounted specimens (6.33 million vascular plants and 598,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.7 million records (4.3 million vascular plants and 380,000 bryophytes).

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Collection Statistics

  • 177,520 specimen records
  • 70,301 (40%) georeferenced
  • 104,521 (59%) with images (331,583 total images)
  • 119,717 (67%) identified to species
  • 516 families
  • 4,279 genera
  • 21,773 species
  • 23,014 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 May 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Tropicos MO Specimen Data
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