Collection Profile for: The Department of Biology administers the Indiana University Herbarium (IND). Founded in 1885, the herbarium houses over 152,000 specimens of vascular plants, including the collections of Charles C. Deam on which the Flora of Indiana is based.
Cite this collection: Indiana University. Occurrence dataset (ID: a8a1e1a0-89d4-4e5e-a449-72053519906f) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2025-01-20).
Collection Statistics
5,772 specimen records
5,295 (92%) georeferenced
5,555 (96%) with images (5,820 total images) 5,560 (96%) identified to species 39 families 191 genera 867 species 936 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
3 January 2025
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder:
The Trustees of Indiana University
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.
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