University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History (FLAS)
The University of Florida Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium is affiliated with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Biology and the Department of Plant Pathology. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Our mission focuses in plant collections acquisition and care, research based on the collections, education and public service. FLAS has 3,067 specimens in its macroalgal collection.
Contact: Kent Perkins (kperkins@flmnh.ufl.edu)
Home Page: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 234e57b5-de66-479c-a60f-1c62d342f66b
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Rights Holder: University of Florida
Collection Statistics
- 3,067 specimen records
- 3,062 (100%) georeferenced
- 3,067 (100%) with images
- 2,936 (96%) identified to species
- 101 families
- 192 genera
- 385 species
- 428 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
