University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium - Bryophytes (COLO-Bryophytes)

Herbarium COLO is the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on the Boulder campus. The Herbarium is available to anyone with an interest in botany. Users include faculty and students, visiting scholars, private consultants, local naturalists, and botanists from a variety of public and private agencies. This dataset contains the North American portion of COLO Bryophyte collection. Approximately 50,000 specimens from the rest of the world have not been digitized. No work has been done to georeference this collection. Any coordinates provided are from the collector's label and have not been verified. Collection strengths: Colorado, Southern Rocky Mountains and Western North American vascular plants and cryptogams, worldwide arctic and alpine, Appalachia, Galapagos Lichens, Australia, New Guinea, Altai, Mexico and the Seville Flowers Bryophyte Collection.

Contacts: J Ryan Allen, james.r.allen@Colorado.EDU
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 November 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
COLOBryophytes-DwC-import-2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Cite this collection:
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium - Bryophytes. Occurrence dataset (ID: 6868b991-56d3-4fcc-a934-afc683319de0) accessed via the New Brunswick Museum Collections Portal, /portal, 2024-05-03).
Collection Statistics
  • 534 specimen records
  • 410 (77%) georeferenced
  • 534 (100%) with images (547 total images)
  • 531 (99%) identified to species
  • 43 families
  • 108 genera
  • 216 species
  • 219 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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