Hardin-Simmons University Herbarium (HSU)

Founded in 1964, the Hardin-Simmons University Herbarium contains approximately 5,500 specimens, most of which are from Texas, and with a special emphasis on Taylor County. This herbarium collection is being digitized with support from the National Science Foundation (Award #:1902078) in collaboration with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (contact: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org).

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: fa909cad-9082-48ef-a65e-31ab4ee82eac

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)

• 5,969 occurrence
• 309 (5%) georeferenced
• 5,145 (86%) with images
• 5,761 (97%) identified to species
• 148 families
• 767 genera
• 2,046 species
• 2,302 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)