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

Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

Rights Holder: Western Illinois University

• 42,498 specimen records
• 4,035 (9%) georeferenced
• 42,113 (99%) identified to species
• 283 families
• 1,984 genera
• 6,191 species
• 7,067 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)