Provider: B. A. Bennett Herbarium, Yukon
(Provider metadata last updated 2019-11-17)
| Code: | BABY |
| Description: | B.A. Bennett Herbarium contains only Vascular Plants. With approximately 12,000 specimens it is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of vascular plants from the Yukon Territory. Visiting researchers and students are encouraged to use the herbaria. The library includes all significant northern floras including floras of Russian, Scandinavia, Europe, Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Additional resources include over 4,000 reprints primarily of literature relevant to the Yukon flora, including many historical accounts. Significant exchanges are currently made with UBC, ALA, CAN, DAO and to a lesser extent ATLA and WTU. |
| Specialty: | Vascular plants of Yukon Territory, but Beringian and Circumboreal flora are also highlighted. Additional significant holdings of collections include Alaska, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. CITES: CA10YTW1 |
| Notable Collectors: | B. A. Bennett; P. P. Caswell; A. Ceska; M. J. Oldham; R. Rosie; S. Withers |
| Total Specimens: | 12,000 |
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| Contact: | Bruce Bennett Email: brbennett[at]klondiker[dot]com Phone: 1-867-689-1767 |
| Address: | B. A. Bennett Herbarium 33 Chinook Lane Whitehorse, YK Y1A 5Y2 Canada |
Dataset: Vascular Plants
| Name: | Vascular Plants |
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| Description: | Personal collection of Yukon plants representing approximately 90% of the Yukon flora. The emphasis is Yukon vascular plants (4500), with additional collections from B.C. (900), Alaska (800), Ontario (350), and Alberta (100). |
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| Contact: | Bruce Bennett Email: brbennett[at]klondiker[dot]com Phone: 1-867-633-2479 |
| Licenses: | License for specimen data: Public Domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). License for media, including photographs and images of specimens: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/). Users of the data are encouraged to acknowledge the source of the data if any of these records or media are used for publications, analyses, reports, or on web sites. The provider of the data, and its staff, are not responsible for damages, injury or loss due to the use of these data. Fitness of use must be determined by the user of the data. |
| Collection Size: | 10,954 |
| Records Indexed: | 10,886 |
| Data Last Updated: | 2024-02-28 11:49:47 |
| Metadata Updated: | 2009-11-04 |
