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Colorado State University, Charles Maurer Herbarium (CS)

The Charles Maurer Herbarium Collection is the third largest collection of vascular plants (> 104,000 specimens) and is the oldest herbarium (began in 1883) in the southern Rocky Mountain region. Important collections include those by J. Ackerfield, J. Cassidy, J. H. Cowen, C.S. Crandall, and H.D. Harrington. The herbarium has an excellent representation of the Colorado flora as well as the flora of the southern Rocky Mountain region. These herbarium specimens were the primary bases for the Colorado floras published by Rydberg (1906), Harrington (1954), and Ackerfield (2015).

Contacts: Mark Simmons, psimmons@rams.colostate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f5db692d-95c2-4532-a9e0-76a3d2bb675a
Digital Metadata: EML File
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/95aef98e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Address:
Colorado State University
Biology Department
1878 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO   80523-1878
United States
(970) 491-0496
Collection Statistics
  • 100,029 specimen records
  • 62,931 (63%) georeferenced
  • 69,140 (69%) with images (69,141 total images)
  • 96,876 (97%) identified to species
  • 228 families
  • 1,683 genera
  • 7,464 species
  • 8,319 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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