Collection Profile for: The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.
Contacts:
Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Statistics
615,918 specimen records
347,416 (56%) georeferenced
605,030 (98%) with media (610,587 total media) 577,511 (94%) identified to species 449 families 5,836 genera 36,850 species 39,942 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
Usage Rights:
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Aglaonema (18 ) Alocasia (9 ) Ambrosina (6 ) Ambrosinia (2 ) Amorphophallus (20 ) Amydrium (8 ) Anadendrum (8 ) Anthurium (81 ) Arisaema (1474 ) Arisarum (15 ) Arum (54 ) Biarum (1 ) Caladium (9 ) Calla (232 ) Colocasia (6 ) Cryptocoryne (5 ) Cyrtosperma (4 ) Dieffenbachia (2 ) Dracunculus (5 ) Epipremnopsis (16 ) Epipremnum (8 ) Filarum (1 ) Gonatanthus (1 ) Gonatopus (2 ) Hapaline (2 ) Heteropsis (1 ) Homalomena (9 ) Lemna (381 ) Lysichiton (32 ) Monstera (15 ) Montrichardia (5 ) Orontium (298 ) Peltandra (223 ) Philodendron (39 ) Pinellia (19 ) Piptospatha (3 ) Pistia (36 ) Podolasia (1 ) Pothoidium (2 ) Pothos (22 ) Pseudodracontium (2 ) Rhaphidophora (17 ) Richardia (1 ) Sauromatum (2 ) Schismatoglottis (3 ) Scindapsus (12 ) Spathantheum (1 ) Spathicarpa (2 ) Spathiphyllum (12 ) Spathyema (6 ) Spirodela (153 ) Stenospermation (3 ) Symplocarpus (457 ) Syngonium (15 ) Typhonium (3 ) Urospatha (2 ) Wolffia (58 ) Wolffiella (3 ) Xanthosoma (12 ) Zantedeschia (8 )
