University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium (UNLV)

Founded in 1970 by Dr. Wesley E. Niles, the herbarium now holds about 70,000 specimens. Its primary focus is the vascular plant diversity in the Mojave Desert regions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. Important collections include those of T. Ackerman (Desert National Wildlife Refuge); J. C. Beatley (Nevada Test Site); V. Bostick (central and southern Nevada); D. Charlet (Nevada); I.W. Clokey (Spring Mountains); M.Kurzius, D. Schramm, P. Peterson, and C. Annabel (Death Valley, California, and Nevada); S. Meyer (southern Nevada); A. Tiehm, A. Pinzl, and H. Mozingo (central and northern Nevada); W. Niles, P. Leary, J. Holland, and J. Alexander (Nevada, California, and Arizona), and L. Stark (bryophytes of southwestern deserts).

Contacts: Kathryn Birgy (kathryn.birgy@unlv.edu)

Related link: https://www.unlv.edu/lifesciences/herbarium

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: bdfbd203-be3f-4e21-a494-ba44e5a5d7f7

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• 66,076 specimen records
• 48 (0.07%) georeferenced
• 60,723 (92%) identified to species
• 213 families
• 1,497 genera
• 6,571 species
• 8,615 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)