University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 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. 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.

Curator: Matthew Mahrt, matthew.mahrt@csn.edu, 702-651-7515
Collection Manager: Marcus Hooker, marcus.hooker@csn.edu, (702) 651-3131
Tipo de Colección: Preserved Specimens
Administración: Datos en vivo administrados directamente dentro del portal de datos
Identificador único Global: bdfbd203-be3f-4e21-a494-ba44e5a5d7f7
Metadata Digital: EML File
Derechos de Uso: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Propietario de Derechos: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dirección:
Wesley E. Niles Herbarium
College of Southern Nevada, Henderson Campus
Department of Biological Sciences
700 College Drive
Henderson, Nevada   89002
U.S.A.
(702) 651-7515
Estadísticas de Colección
  • 67,091 registros de especímenes
  • 9,327 (14%) georeferenciado
  • 3,956 (6%) con imágenes (3,956 imágenes en total)
  • 65,327 (97%) identificado a las especies
  • 221 familias
  • 1,547 géneros
  • 6,694 especies
  • 9,524 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Estadísticas Extras