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College of Southern Nevada; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium (UNLV)
Founded in 1970 by Dr. Wesley E. Niles, the herbarium now holds about 70,000 specimens. Its primary focus is the vascular plant diversity in the Mojave Desert regions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. In 2023, the herbarium was transferred to the College of Southern Nevada. It is housed in the building A of the Henderson campus. Important collections include those of T. Ackerman (Desert National Wildlife Refuge); J. C. Beatley (Nevada Test Site); V. Bostick (central and southern Nevada); D. Charlet (Nevada); I.W. Clokey (Spring Mountains); M.Kurzius, D. Schramm, P. Peterson, and C. Annabel (Death Valley, California, and Nevada); S. Meyer (southern Nevada); A. Tiehm, A. Pinzl, and H. Mozingo (central and northern Nevada); W. Niles, P. Leary, J. Holland, and J. Alexander (Nevada, California, and Arizona), and L. Stark (bryophytes of southwestern deserts).
Email marcus.hooker@csn.edu to request access to redacted data.
Contactos:
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Curator: Matthew Mahrt, matthew.mahrt@csn.edu
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Collection Manager: Marcus Hooker, marcus.hooker@csn.edu
Dirección:
Estadísticas de Colección
- 68,734 registros de especímenes
- 14,693 (21%) georeferenciado
- 3,956 (6%) con imágenes (3,956 imágenes en total)
- 67,874 (99%) identificado a las especies
- 229 familias
- 1,601 géneros
- 6,941 especies
- 9,920 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)