Delaware State University, Claude E. Phillips Herbarium (DOV)
The Claude E. Phillips Herbarium (DOV) at Delaware State University is the only public herbarium on the Delmarva Peninsula and houses over 150,000 specimens of vascular plants, ca. 35,000 specimens of bryophytes and 3,600 lichens. DOV’s collections span more than 200 years of botanical exploration in Delmarva and the neighboring states and include representative flora from other parts of the U.S. and the world.
Contacts: Cynthia Hong-Wa, chwa@desu.edu
Homepage: https://herbarium.desu.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c14e1b97-e72e-442b-b408-6c8b370a5d37
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/DOV_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
- 53,300 specimen records
- 5,011 (9%) georeferenced
- 53,299 (100%) with images (53,299 total images)
- 46,898 (88%) identified to species
- 188 families
- 1,550 genera
- 5,231 species
- 5,508 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
