Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Philecology Herbarium (BRIT-BRIT) The core of BRIT’s herbarium is the Lloyd H. Shinners Collection in Systematic Botany, begun at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1944. The Botanical Research Institute of Texas was formed in 1987 to house the transfer of this collection, which moved to Fort Worth in 1991. Areas of geographic concentration encompass Texas, the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. The BRIT herbarium holdings are worldwide in scope, and represent most of the earth’s plant families.
Contacts: Herbarium Director: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org
Collections Manager: Ashley Bordelon, abordelon@brit.org
Address:
Botanical Research Institute of Texas; BRIT/SMU/VDB/NLU
1700 University Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76107-3400
USA
817-332-4441
Collection Statistics
635,797 specimen records
64,065 (10%) georeferenced
451,472 (71%) with images (460,383 total images) 433,909 (68%) identified to species 558 families 7,604 genera 27,996 species 32,312 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Last Update: 1 May 2024
Global Unique Identifier: fea81a47-2365-45cc-bef9-b6bbff7457e6
Rights Holder: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acaena (30 ) Adenostoma (26 ) Agrimonia (302 ) Alchemilla (252 ) Amelanchier (554 ) Amelasorbus (1 ) Aphanes (17 ) Argentina (4 ) Aronia (202 ) Aruncus (79 ) Atuna (2 ) Cerasus (2 ) Cercocarpus (258 ) Chaenomeles (24 ) Chamaebatia (11 ) Chamaebatiaria (13 ) Chamaemespilus (1 ) Chamaerhodos (8 ) Coleogyne (9 ) Coluria (1 ) Cotoneaster (106 ) Cowania (4 ) Crataegus (2283 ) Cydonia (3 ) Dalibarda (10 ) Dasiphora (3 ) Dryas (66 ) Drymocallis (7 ) Duchesnea (99 ) Eriobotrya (17 ) Exochorda (17 ) Fallugia (126 ) Filipendula (62 ) Fragaria (346 ) Geum (678 ) Gillenia (122 ) Hagenia (3 ) Hesperomeles (29 ) Heteromeles (22 ) Holodiscus (111 ) Horkelia (46 ) Hulthemia (1 ) Ivesia (47 ) Kageneckia (3 ) Kelseya (2 ) Kerria (5 ) Lachemilla (1 ) Laurocerasus (9 ) Lindleya (8 ) Luetkea (18 ) Lyonothamnus (2 ) Maddenia (1 ) Malacomeles (5 ) Malus (155 ) Margyricarpus (3 ) Mespilus (8 ) Neillia (3 ) Neviusia (14 ) Oemleria (6 ) Osmaronia (14 ) Osteomeles (1 ) Padus (7 ) Peraphyllum (6 ) Petrophytum (16 ) Photinia (47 ) Physocarpus (164 ) Polylepis (16 ) Porteranthus (5 ) Potentilla (1807 ) Poteridium (9 ) Poterium (11 ) Pourthiaea (2 ) Prinsepia (3 ) Prunus (1835 ) Pseudocydonia (1 ) Purshia (136 ) Pygeum (20 ) Pyracantha (42 ) Pyrus (107 ) Raphiolepis (17 ) Rhaphiolepis (3 ) Rhodotypos (8 ) Rosa (1443 ) Rubus (2477 ) Sanguisorba (152 ) Sericotheca (9 ) Sibbaldia (33 ) Sibbaldiopsis (6 ) Sibiraea (1 ) Sieversia (11 ) Sorbaria (6 ) Sorbaronia (2 ) Sorbus (179 ) Spiraea (441 ) Stephanandra (4 ) Stranvaesia (4 ) Tetraglochin (4 ) Vauquelinia (58 ) Waldsteinia (39 ) Xerospiraea (1 )