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California Academy of Sciences (CAS)

The herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the largest collection of vascular plants in the western U.S. It is the sixth largest collection in the United States. Together with the Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley (UC) the San Francisco Bay area is regarded as a National Resource Center for systematic botany. These two major collections have an informal agreement to avoid duplication, thus providing botanists with a rich and varied resource for research.
Contacts: Debra Trock, Collections Manager, Herbarium, dtrock@calacademy.org
Homepage: http://research.calacademy.org/botany/collections
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bf89bc9d-040e-48e5-938a-dc8ad51f5b40
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/CAS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 3,850 specimen records
  • 942 (24%) georeferenced
  • 3,850 (100%) with images (7,513 total images)
  • 3,637 (94%) identified to species
  • 40 families
  • 83 genera
  • 465 species
  • 494 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics