Hardin-Simmons University Herbarium (HSU)
Founded in 1964, the Hardin-Simmons University Herbarium contains approximately 5,500 specimens, most of which are from Texas, and with a special emphasis on Taylor County. This herbarium collection is being digitized with support from the National Science Foundation (Award #:1902078) in collaboration with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (contact: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org).
Curator: Rick Hammer, rhammer@hsutx.edu
Digitization Lead: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: fa909cad-9082-48ef-a65e-31ab4ee82eac
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://portal.torcherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/HSU_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Collection Statistics
- 5,969 specimen records
- 309 (5%) georeferenced
- 5,145 (86%) with images (5,145 total images)
- 5,762 (97%) identified to species
- 148 families
- 767 genera
- 2,047 species
- 2,303 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)