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University of New Mexico Herbarium (UNM-Vascular Plants)

The Museum of Southwestern Biology houses New Mexico’s largest herbarium. Our focus is mainly to document and preserve a record of the flora of the state. We have 130,000 specimens; most are from New Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Our primary international holdings are from Mexico. As the fifth largest state we are relatively unexplored and species new to science are still being discovered, documented, and described. Our specimens represent over 7700 species and serve as a reference for what’s been documented within our region.
Additional UNM Collections:
Bryophyte Collection within the CNABH Portal
Lichen Collection within the CNALH Portal
Mycological Collection within the MycoPortal
Curator: Hannah Marx, hmarx@unm.edu, 505-277-2604
Collections Manager: Harpo Faust, harpofaust@unm.edu, 505-277-3781
Homepage: http://msb.unm.edu/divisions/herbarium/index.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 274317fa-b413-42b6-bb9a-cfe8f2e54962
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/content/dwca/UNM-VascularPlants_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Address:
UNM Herbarium; Department of Biology
MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM   87131-00001
USA
(505) 277-3781
Collection Statistics
  • 137,812 specimen records
  • 102,293 (74%) georeferenced
  • 133,129 (97%) with images (137,244 total images)
  • 132,927 (96%) identified to species
  • 274 families
  • 1,947 genera
  • 8,157 species
  • 10,647 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics