Collection Profile for: The Museum of Southwestern Biology houses New Mexico’s largest herbarium. Our focus is mainly to document and preserve a record of the flora of the state. We have 140,000 specimens; most are from New Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Our primary international holdings are from Mexico. As the fifth largest state we are relatively unexplored and species new to science are still being discovered, documented, and described. Our specimens represent over 8000 species and serve as a reference for what’s been documented within our region.
Additional UNM Collections:
Bryophyte Collection within the CNABH Portal Lichen Collection within the CNALH Portal Mycological Collection within the MycoPortal
Contacts:
Curator: Hannah Marx, hmarx@unm.edu, 505-277-2604
Collections Manager: Harpo Faust, harpofaust@unm.edu, 505-277-3781
Address:
UNM Herbarium; Department of Biology
MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-00001
USA
(505) 277-3781
Collection Statistics
141,071 specimen records
105,407 (75%) georeferenced
136,497 (97%) with media (141,516 total media) 357 misc genetic references 136,168 (97%) identified to species 275 families 1,960 genera 8,235 species 10,775 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 274317fa-b413-42b6-bb9a-cfe8f2e54962
Usage Rights:
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Alliaria (1 ) Alyssum (29 ) Arabidopsis (4 ) Arabis (91 ) Athysanus (1 ) Barbarea (29 ) Berteroa (9 ) Boechera (263 ) Brassica (18 ) Cakile (3 ) Camelina (35 ) Capsella (85 ) Cardamine (87 ) Cardaria (36 ) Caulanthus (4 ) Chorispora (32 ) Cleome (2 ) Conringia (11 ) Descurainia (413 ) Dimorphocarpa (166 ) Diplotaxis (14 ) Disaccanthus (4 ) Dithyrea (3 ) Draba (517 ) Dryopetalon (11 ) Eruca (4 ) Erucastrum (1 ) Erysimum (477 ) Eutrema (2 ) Guillenia (1 ) Halimolobos (20 ) Hesperidanthus (192 ) Hesperis (6 ) Idahoa (1 ) Lepidium (527 ) Lesquerella (37 ) Lyrocarpa (2 ) Malcolmia (3 ) Matthiola (2 ) Moricandia (1 ) Mostacillastrum (2 ) Nasturtium (75 ) Nerisyrenia (120 ) Neslia (1 ) Noccaea (29 ) Parrya (6 ) Pennellia (48 ) Phoenicaulis (1 ) Physaria (631 ) Polanisia (1 ) Raphanus (2 ) Romanschulzia (1 ) Rorippa (119 ) Schoenocrambe (12 ) Selenia (11 ) Sibara (16 ) Sinapis (6 ) Sisymbrium (137 ) Smelowskia (7 ) Stanleya (43 ) Streptanthella (32 ) Streptanthus (91 ) Strigosella (1 ) Synthlipsis (2 ) Thelypodiopsis (45 ) Thelypodium (69 ) Thlaspi (156 ) Thysanocarpus (20 ) Tomostima (5 ) Turritis (9 )
