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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
  • Bletia (4)
  • Brassia (1)
  • Calopogon (26)
  • Cleistes (4)
  • Corallorhiza (3)
  • Cyrtopodium (1)
  • Encyclia (9)
  • Epidendrum (17)
  • Erythrodes (1)
  • Eulophia (4)
  • Habenaria (29)
  • Harrisella (3)
  • Hexalectris (1)
  • Listera (1)
  • Macradenia (2)
  • Malaxis (1)
  • Orthochilus (1)
  • Platanthera (36)
  • Platythelys (1)
  • Pogonia (12)
  • Polyradicion (1)
  • Polystachya (3)
  • Ponthieva (3)
  • Prosthechea (1)
  • Spiranthes (30)
  • Tolumnia (1)
  • Triphora (2)
  • Vanilla (1)
  • Zeuxine (8)