The L. E. Anderson Bryophyte Herbarium includes approximately 230,000 specimens, of which some 160,000 are mosses. With about 50,000 moss collections from the southeastern United States, the DUKE collection is one of, if not the most important, resource for documenting the southeastern moss flora. Important collections of bryophytes include those of L.E. Anderson, H.L. Blomquist, M. Crosby, A.J. Grout, B.D. Mishler, W.B. Schofield, R. Schuster, A.J. Shaw, 48 bryophyte exsiccatae collections, and over 900 bryophyte type specimens. Data shared with the speciesLink network refers to samples collected in South America.

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CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial). For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Jonathan Shaw, Curator of Bryophytes (shaw@duke.edu)

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Duke University Herbarium, DUKE

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