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Collection Profile for:
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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Address:

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

Collection Statistics

  • 61,558 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
Digital Metadata: EML File
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