University of Mississippi, Thomas M. Pullen Herbarium (MISS)
The Pullen Herbarium (MISS) collection is located on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, and consists of over 80,000 vascular plant specimens, as well as non vascular plants, slime molds and macrofungi. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the collection is housed in a compactor system and the specimen data and images have been digitized. Vascular plant specimens can be searched on SERNEC and macrofungi are displayed in MycoPortal.
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)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/93ec984b-d117-4092-814c-1202a8532b7f
Address:
University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi 38677-1848
U.S.A.
(662) 915-5488
Collection Statistics
- 80,369 specimen records
- 25,078 (31%) georeferenced
- 76,482 (95%) with images (78,663 total images)
- 78,037 (97%) identified to species
- 267 families
- 1,557 genera
- 6,393 species
- 7,280 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
