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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 January 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Cite this collection:
University of Michigan Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: 878f8fda-6f5b-4da1-acaa-5cab58230fe2) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2024-04-18).
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
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acrostichum (178)
  • Actiniopteris (13)
  • Adiantopsis (66)
  • Adiantum (3094)
  • Aleuritopteris (269)
  • Ananthacorus (49)
  • Anogramma (51)
  • Antrophyum (344)
  • Argyrochosma (159)
  • Aspidotis (102)
  • Astrolepis (225)
  • Austrogramme (17)
  • Baja (6)
  • Bommeria (108)
  • Calciphilopteris (22)
  • Ceratopteris (114)
  • Cerosora (2)
  • Cheilanthes (342)
  • Cheiloplecton (35)
  • Coniogramme (198)
  • Cosentinia (6)
  • Cryptogramma (316)
  • Doryopteris (223)
  • Eriosorus (2)
  • Gaga (262)
  • Gastoniella (11)
  • Haplopteris (481)
  • Hecistopteris (15)
  • Hemionitis (130)
  • Jamesonia (102)
  • Llavea (60)
  • Lytoneuron (20)
  • Mildella (62)
  • Monogramma (2)
  • Myriopteris (1268)
  • Notholaena (300)
  • Oeosporangium (88)
  • Onychium (154)
  • Ormopteris (4)
  • Paragymnopteris (43)
  • Pellaea (894)
  • Pentagramma (81)
  • Pityrogramma (517)
  • Polytaenium (79)
  • Pteris (2282)
  • Pterozonium (19)
  • Radiovittaria (36)
  • Scoliosorus (34)
  • Syngramma (81)
  • Taenitis (160)
  • Trachypteris (3)
  • Tryonia (4)
  • Vaginularia (82)
  • Vittaria (253)