University of West Florida (UWFP)
The Michael I. Cousens Herbarium of the University of West Florida (UWFP) was established 30 October 1974 (as the Herbarium of the University of West Florida) for the purpose of documenting the Flora of the Florida panhandle and neighboring states. Currently, its holdings include approximately 22,000 vascular plant specimens of 3500 species and smaller collections of bryophytes and macroalgae.
Important collectors represented are R. K. Godfrey, L. C. Anderson, J. B. Nelson, B. F. Hansen, J. R. Abbott, J. R. Burkhalter, and O. Degener. The core of the permanent exsiccatae collection consists of approximately 10,500 specimens from over 600 locations in Escambia County, FL, representing 1,600 species, making it one of the most biodiverse county floras in the United States.
Important collectors represented are R. K. Godfrey, L. C. Anderson, J. B. Nelson, B. F. Hansen, J. R. Abbott, J. R. Burkhalter, and O. Degener. The core of the permanent exsiccatae collection consists of approximately 10,500 specimens from over 600 locations in Escambia County, FL, representing 1,600 species, making it one of the most biodiverse county floras in the United States.
Contact: Philip Darby (pdarby@uwf.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8583263d-cb31-45a3-80ec-406d3c1dec61
DwC-Archive Publishing: http://sernecportal.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 21,216 specimen records
- 1 (0%) georeferenced
- 21,210 (100%) with images
- 20,533 (97%) identified to species
- 211 families
- 1,091 genera
- 2,836 species
- 2,857 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)