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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.

Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Homepage: http://www.ansp.org/research/systematics-evolution/collections/botany/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/PH_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 606,145 specimen records
  • 284,605 (47%) georeferenced
  • 596,053 (98%) with images (601,291 total images)
  • 561,047 (93%) identified to species
  • 445 families
  • 5,663 genera
  • 33,794 species
  • 36,671 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthocereus (3)
  • Ancistrocactus (5)
  • Ariocarpus (1)
  • Cactus (3)
  • Cephalocereus (2)
  • Cereus (90)
  • Cleistocactus (4)
  • Cochemiea (1)
  • Copiapoa (1)
  • Corryocactus (2)
  • Coryphantha (29)
  • Echinocactus (11)
  • Echinocereus (36)
  • Echinomastus (4)
  • Echinopsis (3)
  • Epiphyllum (9)
  • Epithelantha (4)
  • Ferocactus (22)
  • Frailea (1)
  • Gymnocalycium (2)
  • Hamatocactus (1)
  • Hariota (2)
  • Harrisia (2)
  • Hylocereus (2)
  • Lemaireocereus (4)
  • Lobivia (5)
  • Lophocereus (1)
  • Lophophora (1)
  • Mammillaria (35)
  • Mediocactus (1)
  • Melocactus (1)
  • Monvillea (3)
  • Myrtillocactus (2)
  • Neobesseya (1)
  • Neolloydia (1)
  • Nopalea (1)
  • Notocactus (1)
  • Opuntia (389)
  • Pachycereus (2)
  • Parodia (6)
  • Pediocactus (6)
  • Pereskia (14)
  • Pereskiopsis (1)
  • Pfeiffera (3)
  • Pilosocereus (1)
  • Rhipsalis (48)
  • Sclerocactus (1)
  • Selenicereus (1)
  • Stenocereus (2)
  • Stetsonia (1)
  • Thelocactus (1)
  • Trichocereus (14)