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Collection Profile for:
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium (MMNS)

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The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium currently consists of over ~70,000 mounted plant specimens, with approximately 2,000 unmounted specimens in various stages of preparation. Collections from ~29 states are found in the herbarium; however, the majority of the collection (93%) is composed of specimens from Mississippi.

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Contacts:

GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/50cd0754-79a7-4ab6-9fd0-38181851bc64

Address:

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi   39202
USA
601/ 576 6000
https://www.mdwfp.com/plants-collections

Collection Statistics

  • 61,562 specimen records
  • 60,167 (98%) georeferenced
  • 15,929 (26%) with media (16,017 total media)
  • 59,979 (97%) identified to species
  • 241 families
  • 1,213 genera
  • 3,879 species
  • 4,475 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: d89aa398-9cf7-4b4c-97be-95f1eda5a3f9
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Digital Metadata: EML File
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Abildgaardia (5)
  • Actinoscirpus (1)
  • Bolboschoenus (38)
  • Bulbostylis (346)
  • Calyptrocarya (7)
  • Carex (13733)
  • Cladium (6)
  • Cyperus (2450)
  • Dulichium (63)
  • Eleocharis (1451)
  • Eriophorum (59)
  • Fimbristylis (1147)
  • Fuirena (237)
  • Hypolytrum (2)
  • Isolepis (128)
  • Kobresia (4)
  • Kyllinga (85)
  • Lagenocarpus (1)
  • Lipocarpha (1)
  • Psilocarya (1)
  • Rhynchospora (1508)
  • Schoenoplectiella (1)
  • Schoenoplectus (51)
  • Schoenus (2)
  • Scirpus (189)
  • Scleria (242)