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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

Homepage: https://www.unlv.edu/lifesciences/herbarium

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