Western Illinois University, R. M. Myers Herbarium (MWI)
The R.M. Myers Herbarium contains more than 75,000 specimens, of which most are from western Illinois or southeastern Iowa. We hold a major collection of moss specimens from western Illinois, as well as a set of Opuntia fragilis specimens that document most areas where it grows in the midwest.
Contacts: Ranessa Cooper, RL-Cooper@wiu.edu
Homepage: http://wiu.edu/users/mfer1/MWI.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5f887025-5ee0-453e-b25b-360c1f5e870a
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/MWI_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Western Illinois University
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/595b50ad-d31f-471a-82c9-c9ff631db3e3
Collection Statistics
- 42,498 specimen records
- 4,037 (9%) georeferenced
- 42,226 (99%) identified to species
- 300 families
- 2,002 genera
- 6,234 species
- 7,151 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
