Repatriated Data - Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, USA (MOBOT-MO)
All Tropicos records. The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2015 the collection had 6.66 million specimens (6.1 million vascular plants and 563,000 bryophytes).
Contact: Michael B. Thomas, Data Manager (michaelbthomas@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 April 2025
Collection Statistics:
1,150 specimen records
980 (85%) georeferenced
981 (85%) identified to species 75 families
216 genera
405 species
407 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Family Distribution
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
Amaryllidaceae (6 ) Apiaceae (54 ) Araceae (7 ) Arecaceae (2 ) Asparagaceae (7 ) Asteraceae (153 ) Athyriaceae (4 ) Begoniaceae (3 ) Berberidaceae (4 ) Betulaceae (1 ) Boraginaceae (8 ) Brassicaceae (10 ) Campanulaceae (7 ) Caprifoliaceae (46 ) Caryophyllaceae (40 ) Celastraceae (9 ) Convolvulaceae (1 ) Cornaceae (1 ) Crassulaceae (33 ) Cupressaceae (5 ) Cyperaceae (38 ) Daltoniaceae (2 ) Diapensiaceae (1 ) Dicranaceae (8 ) Dryopteridaceae (6 ) Ephedraceae (2 ) Ericaceae (44 ) Euphorbiaceae (7 ) Fabaceae (19 ) Gentianaceae (42 ) Geraniaceae (3 ) Grossulariaceae (1 ) Hylocomiaceae (1 ) Iridaceae (2 ) Juncaceae (23 ) Lamiaceae (14 ) Lentibulariaceae (3 ) Liliaceae (5 ) Lycopodiaceae (1 ) Magnoliaceae (4 ) Malvaceae (2 ) Melastomataceae (2 ) Meteoriaceae (3 ) Nartheciaceae (6 ) Onagraceae (23 ) Ophioglossaceae (1 ) Orchidaceae (24 ) Orobanchaceae (44 ) Papaveraceae (10 ) Passifloraceae (4 ) Phrymaceae (1 ) Phyllanthaceae (1 ) Pinaceae (1 ) Plantaginaceae (10 ) Poaceae (85 ) Polygonaceae (35 ) Polypodiaceae (3 ) Pottiaceae (5 ) Primulaceae (33 ) Pteridaceae (1 ) Pterobryaceae (1 ) Ranunculaceae (51 ) Rosaceae (60 ) Rubiaceae (1 ) Salicaceae (16 ) Santalaceae (2 ) Saxifragaceae (63 ) Schisandraceae (1 ) Scrophulariaceae (3 ) Sematophyllaceae (3 ) Sphagnaceae (1 ) Thymelaeaceae (7 ) Urticaceae (1 ) Violaceae (5 ) Woodsiaceae (4 )