University of South Carolina Upstate Herbarium (USCS)
The herbarium at the University of South Carolina Upstate (formerly University of South Carolina Spartanburg) houses a collection of bryophytes and vascular plants with a focus on the Piedmont region of South Carolina. The collection was begun in the 1970s and most specimen were collected by or under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Newberry.
Contacts: Benjamin Montgomery, bmontgomery@uscupstate.edu
Homepage: https://www.uscupstate.edu/academics/arts_sciences/natural_science/Herbarium/Default.aspx?id=2192
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9a26bc5f-b8ef-4fa8-b7e8-b8341e2e7823
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/USCS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
iDigBio Dataset page: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/aac5fd7f-8043-4aa8-811f-e50de70d96f3
Collection Statistics
- 17,886 specimen records
- 0 georeferenced
- 17,827 (100%) with images (17,829 total images)
- 17,797 (100%) identified to species
- 177 families
- 734 genera
- 1,743 species
- 1,899 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
