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Western Illinois University, ​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.

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Collection Statistics

  • 42,498 specimen records
  • 4,037 (9%) georeferenced
  • 42,226 (99%) identified to species
  • 300 families
  • 2,002 genera
  • 6,234 species
  • 7,151 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Last Update: 18 December 2015
Global Unique Identifier: 5f887025-5ee0-453e-b25b-360c1f5e870a
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Digital Metadata: EML File
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Rights Holder: Western Illinois University
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Campanula (42)
  • Campanulastrum (44)
  • Centropogon (1)
  • Downingia (4)
  • Hippobroma (2)
  • Legousia (4)
  • Lobelia (172)
  • Nemacladus (2)
  • Phyteuma (6)
  • Platycodon (1)
  • Sphenoclea (2)
  • Triodanis (60)