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University of Louisiana at Lafayette Herbarium (LAF)The UL Lafayette Herbarium serves the national and international botanical communities, as well as serving as the regional herbarium for Acadiana. The Herbarium loans plant specimens for study to botanical institutions around the world. The UL Lafayette Herbarium holds the most complete record-- in the form of actual plant specimens of the flora of the Acadian region of Louisiana. The UL Lafayette Herbarium was founded in the early 1940s and presently holds about 124,000 specimens, including approximately 23,000 specimens of bryophytes (primarily mosses), and 5,000 specimens of mostly marine Algae. The Herbarium is rich in Louisiana flora, with special emphasis on Acadiana flora, wetland and coastal plants, and pteridophytes (ferns and "fern allies") of Louisiana, and on bryophytes of the southern United States. The general bryophyte holdings emphasize mosses of the Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States and Mexico, the West Indies, and Amazonia, and also include major representation of the moss family Calymperaceae from tropical regions around the world. Important collections include those of Charles M. Allen (especially Poaceae), Garrie P. Landry, Robert J. Lemaire, Alex Lasseigne (especially Fabaceae), John J. Lynch (wetland plants), Glen Montz (wetland plants), William D. Reese (especially bryophytes), John W. Thieret, and Karl M. Vincent (especially Scrophulariaceae). Contacts: Erin Sigel, erinsigel@louisiana.edu Contact for data: Jennifer Kluse, jkluse@lsu.edu Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal Global Unique Identifier: 55acb3d5-304c-48fe-afda-9107986f432e DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/LAF_DwC-A.zip Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Rights Holder: Joseph Richards Address:
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Herbarium 410 E. St Mary Blvd, Room 140 Lafayette, LA 70503 United States 337-482-5245 Collection Statistics
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Development supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Grants
(DBI 9983132,
BRC 0237418,
DBI 0743827,
DBI 0847966)
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