Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)
Over one million plant specimens are housed in the BRIT Herbarium (the combined BRIT-SMU and VDB collections), making this the largest independent herbarium in the southeastern US. The herbarium has strengths in the plants of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, the Gulf Coast, and the southeastern United States. However, these collections are worldwide in scope, and most of the Earth’s plant families are represented here. Two of our current research projects, one in Peru and one in Papua New Guinea, have greatly expanded the scope of our collection of tropical specimens.
Contacts: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org
Homepage: http://www.brit.org/herbarium/about
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e930b44a-b92c-4727-a697-c816960bc747
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/BRIT_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 2,475 specimen records
- 1,799 (73%) georeferenced
- 100 (4%) with images (145 total images)
- 19 GenBank genetic references
- 2,014 (81%) identified to species
- 123 families
- 342 genera
- 1,048 species
- 1,065 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
