University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium (UNLV)
Founded in 1970 by Dr. Wesley E. Niles, the herbarium now holds about 70,000 specimens. Its primary focus is the vascular plant diversity in the Mojave Desert regions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. Important collections include those of T. Ackerman (Desert National Wildlife Refuge); J. C. Beatley (Nevada Test Site); V. Bostick (central and southern Nevada); D. Charlet (Nevada); I.W. Clokey (Spring Mountains); M.Kurzius, D. Schramm, P. Peterson, and C. Annabel (Death Valley, California, and Nevada); S. Meyer (southern Nevada); A. Tiehm, A. Pinzl, and H. Mozingo (central and northern Nevada); W. Niles, P. Leary, J. Holland, and J. Alexander (Nevada, California, and Arizona), and L. Stark (bryophytes of southwestern deserts).
Curator: Matthew Mahrt, matthew.mahrt@csn.edu, 702-651-7515
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bdfbd203-be3f-4e21-a494-ba44e5a5d7f7
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://intermountainbiota.org/portal/content/dwca/UNLV_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Address:
Wesley E. Niles Herbarium
College of Southern Nevada, Henderson Campus
Department of Biological Sciences
700 College Drive
Henderson, Nevada 89002
U.S.A.
(702) 651-7515
Collection Statistics
- 66,647 specimen records
- 3,970 (6%) georeferenced
- 3,954 (6%) with images (4,166 total images)
- 64,879 (97%) identified to species
- 219 families
- 1,535 genera
- 6,650 species
- 9,460 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
