Louisiana State University, Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium (LSU-Vascular Plants)
Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University, Vascular Plant Collection: ca. 159,000 specimens, particularly from Louisiana and the Southeast, but also throughout North America and worldwide through exchange and collections. Families well-represented include Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Cyperaceae and Poaceae worldwide. Significant collections by Fr. G. Arsène, C. A. Brown, A. Featherman, N. F. Peterson, S.C. Tucker, L. E. Urbatsch, I. Vélez, and E. C. Wurzlow.
Contacts: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager, jkluse@lsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: fe609977-5b39-49c5-905a-32ca83233244
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/LSU-VascularPlants_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Address:
Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium
Louisiana State University
103 Life Sciences Bldg.
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USA
225-578-8564
Collection Statistics
- 307,721 specimen records
- 22,900 (7%) georeferenced
- 295,460 (96%) with images (296,371 total images)
- 278,492 (91%) identified to species
- 434 families
- 4,342 genera
- 21,927 species
- 25,256 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
