Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Over 100,000 specimens in collection, with emphasis on plants of the Southwest and northern Mexico, Cactaceae and Agavaceae.
Contacts: Andrew Salywon, asalywon@dbg.org
Curator Emerita: Wendy C. Hodgson, whodgson@dbg.org
Collections Manager: Sarah Hunkins , shunkins@dbg.org
Homepage: http://www.dbg.org/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: edb9860c-c481-4d19-88cc-224a536ebcd4
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/content/dwca/DES_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/3c59bd42-7bfd-421b-8da4-275780390e4c
Address:
Herbarium - Research, Conservation & Collections Department
Desert Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
Phoenix, Arizona 85008
480-481-8107
Collection Statistics
- 98,959 specimen records
- 97,658 (99%) georeferenced
- 83,036 (84%) with images (84,146 total images)
- 95,136 (96%) identified to species
- 337 families
- 2,676 genera
- 12,030 species
- 15,030 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
