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University of California Santa Barbara Algae Collection (UCSB)

The UCSB botanical collections, housed at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, include over 250,000 taxa of terrestrial and marine species. The vascular plant herbarium includes approximately 100,000 vascular plant specimens, lichens curated by Dr. Shirley Tucker, and the C.H. Muller Oak collection. The algal herbarium houses approximately 8000 specimens dating from the 1880s.

Contacts: Greg Wahlert, wahlert@ccber.ucsb.edu
Homepage: https://www.ccber.ucsb.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6d00282e-3374-4a82-91a3-723372c9247b
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://macroalgae.org/portal/content/dwca/UCSB_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 9,770 specimen records
  • 9,195 (94%) georeferenced
  • 9,765 (100%) with images (10,494 total images)
  • 8,619 (88%) identified to species
  • 124 families
  • 327 genera
  • 869 species
  • 937 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution
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