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Charles Maurer Herbarium at Colorado State University

This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.

Description

<p>The Charles Maurer Herbarium Collection is the third largest collection of vascular plants (&amp;gt; 104,000 specimens) and is the oldest herbarium (began in 1883) in the southern Rocky Mountain region. Important collections include those by J. Ackerfield, J. Cassidy, J. H. Cowen, C.S. Crandall, and H.D. Harrington. The herbarium has an excellent representation of the Colorado flora as well as the flora of the southern Rocky Mountain region.&amp;nbsp;The Charles Maurer Herbarium contains several important collections, including the specimen backbones of three major floras for Colorado. First, the herbarium houses approximately 4,500 historical collections made by its first curators in the late 1890&amp;rsquo;s, Charles Spencer Crandall and Jacob Hover Cowen. These collections formed the foundation for Flora of Colorado (Rydberg, 1906), the first comprehensive flora of the state. Second, the herbarium also houses approximately 10,000 collections from curator Harold D. Harrington, which formed the basis for his comprehensive Manual of the Plants of Colorado (1954). Lastly, collections of curator Jennifer Ackerfield are housed in the herbarium. Together, these collections formed the foundation for the most current Flora of Colorado (Ackerfield, 2021).&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;</p>

Type of content

Includes: Point occurrence data, gbif import.

Citation

Colorado State University Herbarium (CSU) (2024). Charles Maurer Herbarium at Colorado State University. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/zciacm accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-02-21.

Digitised records

Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the BioAtlas - Atlas bioraznolikosti Hrvatske. This resource was last checked for updated data on 21 Feb 2025. The most recent data was published on 15 Nov 2024.

Metadata last updated on 2025-02-21 16:08:38.0

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