University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History Herbarium Lichen Collection (COLO-L)

Herbarium COLO is the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on the Boulder campus. The Herbarium is available to anyone with an interest in botany. Users include faculty and students, visiting scholars, private consultants, local naturalists, and botanists from a variety of public and private agencies.

This dataset contains the COLO Lichen collection. North American specimens are transcribed and worldwide transcription is in progress.

No work has been done to georeference this collection. Any coordinates provided are from the collector's label and have not been verified.

Collection strengths: Colorado, Southern Rocky Mountains and Western North American vascular plants and cryptogams, worldwide arctic and alpine, Appalachia, Galapagos Lichens, Australia, New Guinea, Altai, Mexico and the Seville Flowers Bryophyte Collection.

Contacts: J Ryan Allen, james.r.allen@Colorado.EDU
Collection Manager: Dina Clark, dina.clark@colorado.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ef6d1fd7-8440-4e2d-bccf-85feddb1c08c
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
University of Colorado
Museum of Natural History
Clare Small Building basement, Herbarium
350 UCB
Boulder, CO   80309
USA
303.492.2462 (Herbarium)
Collection Statistics
  • 102,424 specimen records
  • 39,018 (38%) georeferenced
  • 94,894 (93%) with images (101,789 total images)
  • 95,261 (93%) identified to species
  • 183 families
  • 792 genera
  • 7,182 species
  • 7,323 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics