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University of Mississippi, Thomas M. Pullen Herbarium (MISS)

The Pullen Herbarium (MISS) collection consists of over 75,000 vascular plant specimens, as well as non vascular plants, slime molds and fungi. With funding from the National Science Foundation , the collection is now housed in new cabinets on a compactor system and the specimen data has been entered into a searchable database. All accessioned specimens have been imaged and are currently being linked to our heritage database.
Contacts: Lucile McCook, Curator, bymccook@olemiss.edu
Homepage: http://www.herbarium.olemiss.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4b4dd71f-d42c-4af9-837d-0a353ad73aa9
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/MISS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 80,321 specimen records
  • 25,061 (31%) georeferenced
  • 76,482 (95%) with images (78,663 total images)
  • 77,909 (97%) identified to species
  • 269 families
  • 1,543 genera
  • 6,358 species
  • 7,240 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics