Austin Peay State University Herbarium (APSC)

Austin Peay State University Herbarium (APSC), established in 1942, has roughly 130,000 specimens and is the second largest herbarium in the Kentucky/Tennessee region. In 2017 APSC nearly doubled from its previous size due to the acquisition of the former Western Kentucky University herbarium (WKU) and Davies Herbarium of Louisville (DHL). Although located in Clarksville Tennessee, the APSC collection is mostly Kentucky-based with significant collections from the Louisville, Bowling Green, and Land Between the Lakes areas. Under the curation of Dwayne Estes and the management of Mason Brock, APSC has become one of the fastest growing herbaria in the Southeast, with new specimens being accessioned on a daily basis. In addition to an active graduate student program, APSC is also the home of the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative (SGI) which places it at the forefront of taxonomy and conservation science.

Significant contributors: Edward Chester, Max Medley, Robert Kral, Dwayne Estes, Mason Brock, and Alfred Clebsch

In order to uphold our conservation and education based values, and to advance the purpose of this herbarium digitization project, APSC has chosen a policy of information openness regarding collection localities. Specimen images will be promptly supplied to all users upon request, with exception for taxa of extreme global rarity (G1) or those threatened with economic exploitation.

Contactos: Mason Brock, Collections Manager, masebrock@gmail.com
Tipo de Colección: Preserved Specimens
Administración: Datos en vivo administrados directamente dentro del portal de datos
Identificador único Global: 25b418e1-125e-4a85-9ef2-8f02593ebb55
DwC-Archive Access Punto de Acceso: https://nansh.org/portal/content/dwca/APSC_DwC-A.zip
Metadata Digital: EML File
Derechos de Uso: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Estadísticas de Colección
  • 138,909 registros de especímenes
  • 682 (0.49%) georeferenciado
  • 138,379 (100%) con imágenes (144,130 imágenes en total)
  • 137,903 (99%) identificado a las especies
  • 263 familias
  • 1,812 géneros
  • 7,787 especies
  • 8,065 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Estadísticas Extras
Distribución Geográfica
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