Western Illinois University, R. M. Myers Herbarium (MWI)
The R.M. Myers Herbarium contains more than 75,000 specimens, of which most are from western Illinois or southeastern Iowa. We hold a major collection of moss specimens from western Illinois, as well as a set of Opuntia fragilis specimens that document most areas where it grows in the midwest.
Contact: Eric Ribbens (e-ribbens@wiu.edu)
Home Page: http://wiu.edu/users/mfer1/MWI.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5f887025-5ee0-453e-b25b-360c1f5e870a
DwC-Archive Publishing: http://midwestherbaria.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
Live Data Download: Login for access
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Western Illinois University
iDigBio Dataset page: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/43aa1339-67e4-4298-b7c5-3d0f201266ef
Collection Statistics
- 42,498 specimen records
- 4,037 (9%) georeferenced
- 42,142 (99%) identified to species
- 299 families
- 1,991 genera
- 6,203 species
- 7,083 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Development of SEINet, Symbiota, and several of the specimen databases have been supported by
National Science Foundation Grants
(DBI 9983132,
BRC 0237418,
DBI 0743827,
DBI 0847966)