Collection Profile for: Specialty: Worldwide, especially temperate North America and the Great Lakes region. Specific strengths include marine algae of eastern North America, West Indies, Alaska, and Pacific Islands; bryophytes of tropical America; Agaricaceae and Hymenogastraceae of western North America; vascular plants of Mexico, Iran, Himalayas, southwestern Pacific Region, and southeastern Asia; Cyperaceae, Malpighiaceae, Myrtaceae, and Podostemaceae of the New World.Date Founded: 1837.
Contacts:
Collection Manager: Brad Ruhfel, umherb-data@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Aly Baumgartner, umherb-data@umich.edu
Technical Support: Garth Holman, gholman@umich.edu
Address:
University of Michigan Herbarium
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228
U.S.A.
734-615-6200
Collection Statistics
615,133 specimen records
185,416 (30%) georeferenced
525,526 (85%) with media (711,914 total media) 10 GenBank genetic references 574,849 (93%) identified to species 375 families 5,800 genera 45,587 species 50,267 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
5 June 2025
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acanthocereus (31 ) Aporocactus (7 ) Ariocarpus (5 ) Armatocereus (5 ) Astrophytum (1 ) Bergerocactus (1 ) Borzicactus (9 ) Brasiliopuntia (1 ) Browningia (8 ) Calymmanthium (1 ) Carnegiea (1 ) Cephalocereus (9 ) Cereus (6 ) Cleistocactus (5 ) Consolea (13 ) Corryocactus (6 ) Corynopuntia (2 ) Coryphantha (24 ) Cumulopuntia (1 ) Cylindropuntia (127 ) Deamia (2 ) Dendrocereus (4 ) Disocactus (49 ) Eccremocactus (1 ) Echinocactus (13 ) Echinocereus (273 ) Echinofossulocactus (1 ) Echinopsis (11 ) Epiphyllum (45 ) Eriosyce (4 ) Escobaria (20 ) Espostoa (6 ) Eulychnia (1 ) Ferocactus (27 ) Grusonia (23 ) Haageocereus (4 ) Harrisia (11 ) Hatiora (2 ) Heliocereus (16 ) Hylocereus (2 ) Lemaireocereus (4 ) Lepismium (10 ) Leptocereus (1 ) Leucostele (1 ) Leuenbergeria (18 ) Lobivia (2 ) Lophocereus (5 ) Lophophora (11 ) Lymanbensonia (1 ) Mammillaria (203 ) Mammilloydia (2 ) Matucana (5 ) Melocactus (6 ) Mitrocereus (1 ) Myrtillocactus (9 ) Neolloydia (4 ) Nopalea (4 ) Nyctocereus (4 ) Opuntia (629 ) Oreocereus (1 ) Pachycereus (9 ) Parodia (1 ) Pediocactus (2 ) Peniocereus (5 ) Pereskia (14 ) Pereskiopsis (15 ) Pfeiffera (2 ) Pilosocereus (21 ) Polaskia (1 ) Praecereus (2 ) Pseudorhipsalis (8 ) Pterocereus (3 ) Rhipsalidopsis (1 ) Rhipsalis (116 ) Schlumbergera (2 ) Sclerocactus (12 ) Selenicereus (79 ) Stenocactus (2 ) Stenocereus (48 ) Stetsonia (1 ) Thelocactus (9 ) Trichocereus (1 ) Weberbauerocereus (4 ) Weberocereus (5 ) Weingartia (1 ) Wittia (1 )
