University of New Hampshire (NHA)

Historical ties with Dartmouth College (HNH) when the Agricultural College shared facilities. NHA founded with a nucleus of 1500 HNH specimens. Specialty: Vascular plants and marine algae of New Hampshire; Maine; coastal New England; Newfoundland; Bay of Fundy; Crimea, Siberia; aquatic flora of northeastern U.S., Costa Rica, and Bolivia. Date Founded: 1892.
Contacts: Erin Sigel, collections manager, erin.sigel@unh.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0dda52c1-018d-4056-8e9b-c280566f4112
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 644 specimen records
  • 590 (92%) georeferenced
  • 144 (22%) with images (144 total images)
  • 624 (97%) identified to species
  • 40 families
  • 94 genera
  • 186 species
  • 190 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alectoria (1)
  • Allocetraria (1)
  • Bryoria (2)
  • Bulbothrix (1)
  • Cetraria (1)
  • Cetrelia (2)
  • Evernia (4)
  • Flavoparmelia (4)
  • Hypogymnia (4)
  • Hypotrachyna (1)
  • Imshaugia (6)
  • Letharia (1)
  • Melanelia (2)
  • Melanelixia (1)
  • Menegazzia (1)
  • Parmelia (6)
  • Parmeliopsis (2)
  • Parmotrema (3)
  • Platismatia (4)
  • Pseudevernia (6)
  • Punctelia (9)
  • Tuckermanella (1)
  • Tuckermannopsis (6)
  • Usnea (30)
  • Usnocetraria (3)
  • Vulpicida (1)
  • Xanthoparmelia (1)