RSA - California Botanic Garden - Bryophytes (RSA-Bryophytes)

The combined Herbarium of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSA) and Pomona College (POM) is a museum-quality collection of vascular plant and bryophyte specimens. With current holdings totaling over 1,250,000 specimens, the Herbarium is the third largest in California. The Herbarium is recognized throughout the world for its strength in documenting the diversity, distribution, variation, and ecology of more than 6,500 species of flowering plants, conifers, and ferns in California, which constitutes nearly 50% of the total collection.

Contacts: Mare Nazaire, Administrative Curator, mnazaire@calbg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b18aff82-571e-4508-b9c4-b8ae51b8e012
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 1,492 specimen records
  • 40 (3%) georeferenced
  • 1 (0.07%) with images (1 total images)
  • 1,445 (97%) identified to species
  • 59 families
  • 140 genera
  • 328 species
  • 346 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics