Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
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University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium (ALA)
The Herbarium (ALA) contains more than 220,000 specimens of non-vascular and vascular plants and is the only major research herbarium in Alaska. The collection also includes plants from other states, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia, Japan, and Russia and provides a basis for teaching and research.
Contacts: Steffi M. Ickert-Bond, Curator, smickertbond@alaska.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 31 March 2023
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ALA_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 31,403 specimen records
- 18,166 (58%) georeferenced
- 23,134 (74%) with images (27,183 total images)
- 30,024 (96%) identified to species
- 87 families
- 298 genera
- 1,560 species
- 1,605 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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