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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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Contacts:

Ranessa Cooper, RL-Cooper@wiu.edu

GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/595b50ad-d31f-471a-82c9-c9ff631db3e3

Collection Statistics

42,498 specimen records
4,036 (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

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

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