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University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium (USMS)

Founded in 1964, the University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium specializes in vascular plants of the southeastern U.S., aquatic and wetland plants as well as myxomycetes of Mississippi.
Contacts: Mac Alford, mac.alford@usm.edu
Homepage: https://www.usm.edu/biological-sciences/herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a252df7c-54e5-4067-b8ad-fb3be53cb0f8
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/USMS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium
118 College Drive #5018, Johnson Science Tower 709
Hattiesburg, Mississippi   39406-0001
USA
601/ 266-6531
For FedEx, UPS, or DHL deliveries, please contact curator.
Collection Statistics
  • 18,471 specimen records
  • 10,687 (58%) georeferenced
  • 16,930 (92%) with images (16,957 total images)
  • 17,567 (95%) identified to species
  • 247 families
  • 1,258 genera
  • 3,931 species
  • 4,154 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics