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Denver Museum of Nature and Science Herbarium (DMNS-Herb)

Worldwide in scope, though with a focus on Colorado and the American West, the Herbarium at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science comprises over 4,000 preserved plant specimens. This diverse collection contains around 250 families of plants, with the strongest representation in Asteraceae, Lauraceae, Myrtaceae, and Fabaceae. Collection dates range from 1859 to the present. The collection is housed in the Avenir Collections Center - an onsite state-of-the-art museum collections facility.
Contacts: Dr. Frank Krell, frank.krell@dmns.org
Homepage: http://www.dmns.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5b4eabe7-ad02-4638-ba67-1f456c41c465
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/content/dwca/DMNS-Herb_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Rights Holder: Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Collection Statistics
  • 3,713 specimen records
  • 2,816 (76%) georeferenced
  • 845 (23%) with images (845 total images)
  • 3,144 (85%) identified to species
  • 206 families
  • 974 genera
  • 1,731 species
  • 1,747 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics