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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.)

Extra Statistics

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d89aa398-9cf7-4b4c-97be-95f1eda5a3f9
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aspidogyne (2)
  • Calopogon (51)
  • Cleistesiopsis (12)
  • Corallorhiza (15)
  • Cypripedium (10)
  • Epidendrum (6)
  • Epipactis (1)
  • Galearis (2)
  • Goodyera (1)
  • Habenaria (17)
  • Hexalectris (10)
  • Isotria (6)
  • Malaxis (11)
  • Neottia (16)
  • Orthochilus (1)
  • Platanthera (130)
  • Pogonia (22)
  • Ponthieva (7)
  • Prosthechea (1)
  • Spiranthes (125)
  • Tipularia (26)
  • Triphora (14)