Oklahoma State University Herbarium (OKLA)

The OSU Herbarium contains approximately 157,000 vascular plant specimens, about two-thirds of which were collected in Oklahoma and surrounding states. The oldest specimen dates from 1843, and the collection contains 300 type specimens. Since its establishment in 1920, it has been curated by Henry Ira Featherly (1925-1937), Robert Stratton (1937-1949), Umalde Theodore (“Ted”) Waterfall (1949-1971), and Ronald Tyrl (1972-2008). Since 2009, Mark Fishbein has been the herbarium director. The herbarium houses a seed/fruit collection, cryptogamic collection, and botanical library.

 

Contact: Mark Fishbein (mark.fishbein@okstate.edu)

Home Page: http://plantbio.okstate.edu/resources/herbarium

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 4f8ecaf5-6ea8-4b39-81d7-123e4a282468

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://portal.torcherbaria.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

Rights Holder: Oklahoma State University

• 79,596 occurrence
• 12,186 (15%) georeferenced
• 28,385 (36%) with images
• 75,824 (95%) identified to species
• 199 families
• 1,316 genera
• 4,824 species
• 5,922 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)