University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (WTU)
Contacts: David Giblin, dgiblin@uw.edu
Homepage: https://www.burkemuseum.org/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 October 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Cite this collection:
University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Occurrence dataset (ID: 4a51823d-c6bd-4a1b-9d78-2edaf0676607) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2023-11-28).
Collection Statistics
- 14,417 specimen records
- 11,450 (79%) georeferenced
- 13,370 (93%) with images (27,145 total images)
- 13,887 (96%) identified to species
- 39 families
- 224 genera
- 1,749 species
- 1,970 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
The PCC, and this data portal, were made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation’s
Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, grant numbers
1802504,
1802352,
1802134,
1802033,
1802270,
1802255,
1802239,
1802446,
1802305.
The pteridoportal taxonomic thesaurus is based on the
Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, generously provided by Michael Hassler.