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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)

Over 100,000 specimens in collection, with emphasis on plants of the Southwest and northern Mexico, Cactaceae and Agavaceae.

Curator: Andrew Salywon, asalywon@dbg.org
Curator Emerita: Wendy C. Hodgson, whodgson@dbg.org
Collections Manager: Sarah Hunkins , shunkins@dbg.org
Homepage: http://www.dbg.org/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: edb9860c-c481-4d19-88cc-224a536ebcd4
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/content/dwca/DES_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Address:
Herbarium - Research, Conservation & Collections Department
Desert Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
Phoenix, Arizona   85008
480-481-8107
Collection Statistics
  • 99,685 specimen records
  • 98,163 (98%) georeferenced
  • 90,517 (91%) with images (91,978 total images)
  • 95,582 (96%) identified to species
  • 339 families
  • 2,688 genera
  • 12,066 species
  • 15,099 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Egypt
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