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University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH)

Specialty: Worldwide, especially temperate North America and the Great Lakes region. Specific strengths include marine algae of eastern North America, West Indies, Alaska, and Pacific Islands; bryophytes of tropical America; Agaricaceae and Hymenogastraceae of western North America; vascular plants of Mexico, Iran, Himalayas, southwestern Pacific Region, and southeastern Asia; Cyperaceae, Malpighiaceae, and Myrtaceae of the New World.

Date Founded: 1837.

Technical Support: Garth Holman, gholman@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Brad Ruhfel, umherb-data@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Aly Baumgartner, umherb-data@umich.edu
Technical Support: Matthew Cruz, mcruz@umich.edu
Homepage: https://lsa.umich.edu/herbarium
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 May 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Cite this collection:
University of Michigan Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: 878f8fda-6f5b-4da1-acaa-5cab58230fe2) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2024-05-06).
Collection Statistics
  • 103,633 specimen records
  • 14,853 (14%) georeferenced
  • 101,855 (98%) with images (109,445 total images)
  • 97,138 (94%) identified to species
  • 52 families
  • 381 genera
  • 6,343 species
  • 6,686 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Chiapas
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Acacoyagua (1)
  • Acala (2)
  • Altamirano (1)
  • Amatenango del Valle (1)
  • Angel Albino Corzo (2)
  • Arriaga (3)
  • Berriozábal (29)
  • Bochil (5)
  • Cacahoatán (2)
  • Cacahoatán or Unión Juárez (1)
  • Catazajá (2)
  • Chamula (14)
  • Chanal (3)
  • Chiapa de Corzo (2)
  • Chilón (1)
  • Cintalapa (41)
  • Comitán de Domínguez (2)
  • El Bosque (16)
  • El Porvenir (5)
  • Escuintla (21)
  • Frontera Comalapa (5)
  • Huistan (1)
  • Huixtla (11)
  • Huixtán (2)
  • Ixtacomitán (2)
  • Ixtapa (2)
  • Jitotol (43)
  • Juárez (1)
  • La Grandeza (2)
  • La Independencia (30)
  • La Trinitaria (96)
  • Larráinzar (3)
  • Las Margaritas (37)
  • Las Rosas (1)
  • Mapastepec (2)
  • Mezcalapa (1)
  • Motozintla (8)
  • Motozintla de Mendoza (31)
  • Ocosingo (89)
  • Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (86)
  • Osumacinta (1)
  • Palenque (24)
  • Pichucalco (5)
  • Pueblo Nuevo (3)
  • Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán (23)
  • Rayon (80)
  • San Andres Larrainzar (13)
  • San Cristobal las Casas (53)
  • San Cristóbal de las Casas (38)
  • Siltepec (30)
  • Simojovel (1)
  • Solosuchiapa (3)
  • Soyaló (2)
  • Tapachula (1)
  • Tenejapa (118)
  • Teopisca (3)
  • Tila (1)
  • Tonalá (2)
  • Totolapa (1)
  • Tuxtla Gutiérrez (11)
  • Union Juarez (27)
  • Venustiano Carranza (5)
  • Villa Corzo (23)
  • Yajalón (28)
  • Zinacantan (15)
  • no data (140)