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This collection consists of 78,000 specimens, including 1,131 types and ranks among the top five in the United States. The collection is strong in marine taxa from North America, including material from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Important collections include those of M. Doty, D. C. Eaton, H. Habeeb, F. Wolle, and M. Nitecki. The collection includes representative exsiccatae from Europe and North America. This herbarium also contains the cyanobacteria collection of F. D. Drouet, and consists of one of the world's largest collections of that group (30,000 specimens).

Other Botany Collections:
Botany Herbarium | Fungi | Lichens | Algae | Bryophytes | Pteridophytes | Gymnosperms | Flowering Plants | Timothy C. Plowman Economic Botany Collection | Type Photograph Collection

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