Description
The Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium (KHD), a collection of over 54,000 vascular plant specimens, is a regional herbarium with a research focus on the species diversity of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountain region. The collection also contains species from other areas of the Southwest and those species that are in cultivation at Denver Botanic Gardens. Most of the specimens within the collection have been digitized, and their photographs may be found online. Higher resolution images are also available upon request.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 66,714 records.
3 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium (KHD)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium (Denver Botanic Gardens). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4e22dd77-6ba1-4256-a692-64fecdf38ea7. Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium (Denver Botanic Gardens) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Colorado; Southern Rocky Mountains; Carex; Poaceae; Sclerocactus; steppe; Specimen
Contacts
- Curator
- Head Curator and Assistant Director of Research and Conservaiton
- 909 York St
- +01 720-865-3589
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Database Associate
- 909 York St
- +01 720-865-3657
- Curator
- Associate Director of Research & Head Curator of the Herbaria
Geographic Coverage
Focus is on the species diversity of Colorado and the southern Rocky Mountain region. The collection also contains species from other areas of the Southwest and those species that are in cultivation at Denver Botanic Gardens.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [35.47, -110.3], North East [42.09, -101.78] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The herbarium has excellent collections of many plant families including Cyperaceae (particularly the genus Carex), Fabaceae (especially the genus Astragalus), Poaceae, Orchidaceae, Brassicaceae and Ophioglossaceae.
| Family | Cyperaceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, Orchidaceae, Brassicaceae, Ophioglossaceae |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | vascular plants |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:ca77be98-2a59-4aa9-bfc1-5ea615f2e6b7 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15415 |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 4e22dd77-6ba1-4256-a692-64fecdf38ea7 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=khd_vascular |