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Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbarium (CM-Botany)

The Carnegie Museum herbarium (CM) has over 540,000 worldwide vascular plant specimens as well as the best representation in any herbarium of specimens from western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin. CM holds the private herbarium of Hannibal and Tyrecca Davis containing 20,000 specimens with a concentration on Rubus (Rosaceae).

Contacts: Bonnie L. Isaac, IsaacB@CarnegieMNH.org
Homepage: https://carnegiemnh.org/research/botany-5/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 June 2022
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/CM-Botany_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Collection Statistics
  • 539,708 specimen records
  • 292,089 (54%) georeferenced
  • 185,292 (34%) with images (185,308 total images)
  • 498,231 (92%) identified to species
  • 445 families
  • 6,211 genera
  • 40,606 species
  • 45,699 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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