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)

Related link: 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/

• 307,510 specimen records
• 22,845 (7%) georeferenced
• 294,498 (96%) with images (295,403 total images)
• 265,656 (86%) identified to species
• 430 families
• 4,199 genera
• 20,629 species
• 23,665 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)