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.
Address:
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi 39202
USA
601/ 576 6000
Collection Statistics
61,961 specimen records
60,167 (97%) 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:
Geographic Distribution - Louisiana
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Acadia (11 ) Allen (3 ) Ascension (8 ) Assumption (4 ) Beauregard (46 ) Bienville (7 ) Bossier (6 ) Caddo (9 ) Calcasieu (18 ) Caldwell (5 ) Cameron (32 ) Catahoula (8 ) Claiborne (4 ) Concordia (1 ) De Soto (6 ) Desoto Parish (1 ) East Baton Rouge (7 ) East Carroll (24 ) East Feliciana (5 ) Evangeline (1 ) Franklin (6 ) Grant (5 ) Iberia (7 ) Jefferson (1 ) Jefferson Davis (7 ) La Salle (4 ) Lafayette (8 ) Lafourche (5 ) Livingston (5 ) Madison (5 ) Morehouse (15 ) Natchitoches (153 ) Orleans (26 ) Ouachita (16 ) Plaquemines (1 ) Rapides (1 ) Red River (5 ) Richland (5 ) Sabine (10 ) Saint Bernard (2 ) Saint Charles (2 ) Saint Helena (3 ) Saint Landry (8 ) Saint Martin (2 ) Saint Mary (3 ) Saint Tammany (66 ) St John Parish (2 ) St. Bernard (5 ) St. Helena (1 ) St. James (3 ) St. John the Baptist (4 ) St. Landry (1 ) St. Martin (5 ) St. Mary (2 ) St. Tammany (15 ) Tangipahoa (10 ) Tensas (1 ) Terrebonne (4 ) Union (11 ) Vermilion (5 ) Vernon (11 ) Vernon Parish (1 ) Washington (10 ) West Carroll (5 ) West Feliciana (5 ) Winn (36 )