Louisiana State University, Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium (LSU-Vascular Plants)

Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University, Vascular Plant Collection: ca. 159,000 specimens, particularly from Louisiana and the Southeast, but also throughout North America and worldwide through exchange and collections. Families well-represented include Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Cyperaceae and Poaceae worldwide. Significant collections by Fr. G. Arsène, C. A. Brown, A. Featherman, N. F. Peterson, S.C. Tucker, L. E. Urbatsch, I. Vélez, and E. C. Wurzlow.

Contact: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager (jkluse@lsu.edu)

Home Page: http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: fe609977-5b39-49c5-905a-32ca83233244

DwC-Archive Publishing: http://sernecportal.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

• 307,331 occurrence
• 22,786 (7%) georeferenced
• 566,036 (184%) with images
• 249,078 (81%) identified to species
• 404 families
• 3,922 genera
• 18,467 species
• 21,511 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)