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Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium (MMNS)

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:

Heather Sullivan, heather.sullivan@mmns.state.ms.us

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
60,113 (98%) georeferenced
15,929 (26%) with images (16,017 total images)
59,965 (97%) identified to species
230 families
1,229 genera
3,969 species
4,670 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Last Update: 24 March 2015

Global Unique Identifier: d89aa398-9cf7-4b4c-97be-95f1eda5a3f9

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Digital Metadata: EML File

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