Duke University Vascular Plant Collection (DUKE)
Duke Herbarium houses more than 425,000 specimens of vascular plants, including 821 types. The collection is especially rich in accessions from the Southeastern United States, in particular for the Carolinas, and Mesoamerica. The vascular plant herbarium contains an important collection of over 22,000 sheets from La Selva in Costa Rica.
Contacts: Michael D. Windham, mdw26@duke.edu
Contacts: Connie Robertson, cjrobert@duke.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 274b5332-1247-4374-b124-c819b814cd6e
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/DUKE_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/785da3a1-3b86-4ac2-8f68-0903cb1cd085
Address:
Duke University; Herbarium
Dept. of Biology
130 Science Dr., Box 90338
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0338
USA
Collection Statistics
- 157,652 specimen records
- 3,139 (2%) georeferenced
- 142,799 (91%) with images (142,801 total images)
- 1 GenBank genetic references
- 151,728 (96%) identified to species
- 245 families
- 1,616 genera
- 8,550 species
- 8,958 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)