University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium (USMS)
Founded in 1964, the University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium specializes in vascular plants of Mississippi and the southeastern U.S., with a particular emphasis on aquatic and wetland plants.
Curator: Mac Alford, mac.alford@usm.edu, 601-266-4748 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3448-9735)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a252df7c-54e5-4067-b8ad-fb3be53cb0f8
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/USMS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/68b0af1b-dead-4d3c-b368-bf6de7c9c0de
Address:
University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium
118 College Drive #5018, TEC 103
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001
USA
601/ 266-4748
For FedEx, UPS, or DHL deliveries, please contact curator.
Collection Statistics
- 18,508 specimen records
- 10,745 (58%) georeferenced
- 16,930 (91%) with images (16,957 total images)
- 17,619 (95%) identified to species
- 248 families
- 1,258 genera
- 3,934 species
- 4,159 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
