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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: 19 January 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
  • 99,497 specimen records
  • 14,798 (15%) georeferenced
  • 97,707 (98%) with images (104,978 total images)
  • 93,134 (94%) identified to species
  • 52 families
  • 371 genera
  • 6,159 species
  • 6,498 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Veracruz
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  • Acajete (4)
  • Acatlan (1)
  • Altotonga (11)
  • Amatlán (1)
  • Amatlán de los Reyes (3)
  • Atoyac (8)
  • Atzalan (20)
  • Banderilla (1)
  • Calcahualco (2)
  • Camarón de Tejeda (1)
  • Carrillo Puerto (2)
  • Catemaco (28)
  • Chiconquiaco (6)
  • Chicontepec (1)
  • Chinameca (1)
  • Coatzacoalcos (2)
  • Cordoba or Orizaba (5)
  • Coscomatepec (3)
  • Coscomatepec de Bravo (1)
  • Cuitláhuac (1)
  • Córdoba (118)
  • Emiliano Zapata (1)
  • Fortín (3)
  • Huatusco (4)
  • Ixhuacán de los Reyes (1)
  • Ixtaczoquitlán (2)
  • Jalacingo (24)
  • Jalapa (20)
  • Jesús Carranza (5)
  • Jilotepec (4)
  • La Perla (2)
  • Las Vigas de Ramírez (9)
  • Maltrata (6)
  • Miahuatlán (1)
  • Minatitlán (15)
  • Misantla (7)
  • Naolinco (2)
  • Nautla (3)
  • Nogales (2)
  • Orizaba (39)
  • Papantla (1)
  • Puente Nacional (5)
  • Río Blanco (2)
  • San Andres Tuxtla (11)
  • Santiago Tuxtla (7)
  • Soledad Atzompa (1)
  • Soteapan (7)
  • Tecolutla (1)
  • Tehuantepec (1)
  • Tenampa (5)
  • Teocelo (3)
  • Tezonapa (2)
  • Tlacolulan (2)
  • Tlaltetela (1)
  • Tlaltongo (1)
  • Tlapacoyan (11)
  • Totutla (9)
  • Túxpam (2)
  • Xalapa (54)
  • Xico (3)
  • Yecuatla (6)
  • Zacualpan (42)
  • Zongolica (3)
  • no data (257)