Collection Profile for: 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.
Address:
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi 39202
USA
601/ 576 6000
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.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d89aa398-9cf7-4b4c-97be-95f1eda5a3f9
Usage Rights:
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acacia (1 ) Aeschynomene (13 ) Albizia (23 ) Alysicarpus (3 ) Amorpha (44 ) Amphicarpa (1 ) Amphicarpaea (13 ) Andira (1 ) Apios (51 ) Arachis (1 ) Astragalus (14 ) Baptisia (38 ) Bauhinia (1 ) Cajanus (1 ) Callerya (1 ) Centrosema (48 ) Cercis (22 ) Chamaecrista (72 ) Cladrastis (7 ) Clitoria (23 ) Cojoba (1 ) Crotalaria (101 ) Dalbergia (1 ) Dalea (87 ) Dermatophyllum (1 ) Desmanthus (40 ) Desmodium (219 ) Erythrina (22 ) Galactia (52 ) Galega (1 ) Gleditsia (26 ) Gliricidia (1 ) Glycine (1 ) Grona (2 ) Gymnocladus (7 ) Hylodesmum (59 ) Indigofera (7 ) Inga (4 ) Kummerowia (29 ) Lackeya (25 ) Lathyrus (26 ) Lespedeza (182 ) Lotus (5 ) Lupinus (58 ) Machaerium (2 ) Macroptilium (5 ) Medicago (35 ) Melilotus (34 ) Mimosa (31 ) Neltuma (1 ) Neptunia (26 ) Orbexilum (45 ) Pachyrhizus (1 ) Pediomelum (1 ) Phaseolus (13 ) Pisum (1 ) Pueraria (18 ) Rhynchosia (62 ) Robinia (25 ) Securigera (4 ) Senna (32 ) Sesbania (59 ) Strophostyles (57 ) Stylosanthes (45 ) Tephrosia (108 ) Thermopsis (1 ) Trifolium (158 ) Vachellia (2 ) Vicia (139 ) Vigna (9 ) Wisteria (34 ) Zornia (4 )
