National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution - Botany (NMNH-Plantae)

Contacts: Thomas Orrell, orrellt@si.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 October 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Parsed IPT import workflow
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 62,164 specimen records
  • 7,278 (12%) georeferenced
  • 52,582 (85%) with images (53,507 total images)
  • 56,404 (91%) identified to species
  • 384 families
  • 2,214 genera
  • 8,405 species
  • 8,860 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acrostichum (59)
  • Adiantopsis (4)
  • Adiantum (464)
  • Aleuritopteris (1)
  • Ananthacorus (32)
  • Anetium (11)
  • Anogramma (1)
  • Ceratopteris (19)
  • Cheilanthes (1)
  • Gaga (4)
  • Hecistopteris (2)
  • Hemionitis (5)
  • Jamesonia (6)
  • Myriopteris (2)
  • Pityrogramma (61)
  • Polytaenium (24)
  • Pteris (161)
  • Radiovittaria (18)
  • Scoliosorus (5)
  • Vittaria (78)