Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium (MO-Tropicos)

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).

Curator and Director of the Herbarium: Jordan Teisher, jteisher@mobot.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 November 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
MINTropicos-DwC-import-2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Missouri Botanical Garden
Cite this collection:
Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: 04508008-f879-42ee-8ff1-8e1b7893ed3c) accessed via the New Brunswick Museum Collections Portal, /portal, 2024-05-03).
Collection Statistics
  • 367 specimen records
  • 65 (18%) georeferenced
  • 43 (12%) with images (90 total images)
  • 325 (89%) identified to species
  • 55 families
  • 114 genera
  • 207 species
  • 209 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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