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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU-Vascular Plants)

Herbarium Curatrix: Carol Ann McCormick, mccormick@unc.edu, +1-919-962-6931
Herbarium Director: Alan Weakley, weakley@unc.edu, +1-919-962-0522
Homepage: https://ncbg.unc.edu/research/unc-herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 August 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 30,830 specimen records
  • 2,923 (9%) georeferenced
  • 28,813 (93%) with images (29,742 total images)
  • 2 GenBank genetic references
  • 29,052 (94%) identified to species
  • 225 families
  • 1,200 genera
  • 3,452 species
  • 3,809 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acalypha (38)
  • Aleurites (2)
  • Argythamnia (9)
  • Caperonia (3)
  • Chamaesyce (222)
  • Cnidoscolus (27)
  • Codiaeum (1)
  • Croton (114)
  • Crotonopsis (16)
  • Ditrysinia (19)
  • Euphorbia (149)
  • Gymnanthes (12)
  • Hippomane (4)
  • Hura (1)
  • Manihot (3)
  • Ricinus (4)
  • Sebastiania (1)
  • Stillingia (76)
  • Tragia (15)
  • Triadica (8)
  • Xylosma (1)