Provider: Royal British Columbia Museum
(Provider metadata last updated 2010-08-28)
| Code: | V |
| Description: | Formerly British Columbia Provincial Museum. |
| Specialty: | Northwestern North America, especially western Canada and British Columbia; vascular plants; bryophytes; lichens; BC alpine; BC Poaceae and Cyperaceae |
| Notable Collectors: | J. R. Anderson; J. A. Bailey; T. C. Brayshaw; J. A. Calder; W. R. Carter; A. Ceska; R. Connell; G. V. Copley; G. W. Douglas; J. W. Eastham; F. Fodor; G. A. Hardy; J. Macoun; M. C. Melburn; C. F. Newcombe; A. F. Szczawinski; T. M. C. Taylor; N. J. Turner; P. D. Warrington; Kendrick Marr; Richard Hebda; Publications/Journals: British Columbia Provincial Museum, Handbook Memoirs of the British Columbia Provincial Museum Special Publications of the British Columbia Provincial Museum |
| Total Specimens: | 228,000 |
| Web Site: | http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/nh-collections/botany-plants/ |
| Online Database: | http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Botany?_ga=2.81704144.615438592.1586032432-1990422318.1586032432 |
| Contact: | Heidi Guest, Collection Manager, Botany Email: hguest[at]royalbcmuseum[dot]bc[dot]ca Phone: 1-250-387-2918 |
| Address: | Herbarium Royal British Columbia Museum 675 Belleville Street Victoria, BC V8V 9W2 Canada |
Dataset: Vascular Plants
| Name: | Vascular Plants |
| Data Access Point: | https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=rbcm-botany-specimens |
| Description: | The Royal BC Museum herbarium (V) houses 218,000 vascular plants specimens, most of which (>90%) were collected within the limits of the province of British Columbia. Specimens from adjacent jurisdictions such as the Yukon, Alberta, Washington and Alaska make up a smaller part of our collection (<10%). Our earliest specimens were collected in the 1890's and during the first part of the 20th century by James R. Anderson and John Macoun. A recent focus of our collections is on the flora of alpine habitats in northern BC. A large majority (>90%) of our specimens are of native or naturalized vascular plant taxa in British Columbia. We also have a small collection of bryophytes and lichens. Among vascular plants we have good collections of most angiosperm, gymnosperm and fern (and allies) taxa and extensive collections of some focal angiosperm families such as Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae and Salicaceae. |
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| Contact: | Kendrick Marr, Curator, Botany Email: KMARR[at]royalbcmuseum[dot]bc[dot]ca Phone: 1-250-387-2918 |
| Licenses: | License for specimen data: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). License for media, including photographs and images of specimens: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). 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: | 218,884 |
| Records Indexed: | 218,884 |
| Data Last Updated: | 2024-10-21 12:54:16 |
| Metadata Updated: | 2024-10-21 |
