Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium (MMNS)

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium currently consists of over ~70,000 mounted plant specimens, with approximately 2,000 unmounted specimens in various stages of preparation. Collections from ~29 states are found in the herbarium; however, the majority of the collection (93%) is composed of specimens from Mississippi.

Contact: Heather Sullivan (heather.sullivan@mmns.state.ms.us)

Home Page: http://www.mdwfp.com/seek-study/bio-collections/plants.aspx

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: d89aa398-9cf7-4b4c-97be-95f1eda5a3f9

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://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/

Address:

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science

2148 Riverside Drive

Jackson, Mississippi 39202

USA

601/ 576 6000

http://www.mdwfp.com/seek-study/bio-collections/plants.aspx

Collection Statistics

51,802 occurrence
40,418 (78%) georeferenced
16,022 (31%) with images
49,838 (96%) identified to species
213 families
1,111 genera
3,610 species
4,260 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Citation: The vPlants Project. vPlants: A Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region. http://www.vplants.org

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