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West Virginia Herbaria: Status, Updates, And Plans, Pamela Puppo, Katharine Gregg, Donna Ford-Werntz, James Vanderhorst, Michelle Mabry, Jeremy Keene Jan 2022

West Virginia Herbaria: Status, Updates, And Plans, Pamela Puppo, Katharine Gregg, Donna Ford-Werntz, James Vanderhorst, Michelle Mabry, Jeremy Keene

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

The West Virginia (U.S.A.) Herbarium Curators met on December 1st, 2021, with the intent of sharing updates on the collections, fostering collaboration, learning from each other's experiences, and identifying priorities for the collections towards the future. This article presents a summary of the herbaria that were represented in this meeting.


Partnering With Archivists To Process The Manuscript Collection Present At The Marshall University Herbarium, Pamela Puppo, Lori Thompson Aug 2021

Partnering With Archivists To Process The Manuscript Collection Present At The Marshall University Herbarium, Pamela Puppo, Lori Thompson

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

The Marshall University Herbarium (MUHW) is located on the third floor of the Science Building at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, United States. It was founded in the 1930's by Dr. Frank A. Gilbert when Marshall was still Marshall College. Today, MUHW is the second largest herbarium in West Virginia with about 50,000 specimens, including 20 types. Mostly composed of vascular plants, the herbarium also contains small collections of non-vascular plants, fungi, algae, fossils, and some ethnobotanical material, mainly brought from Ecuador by one of the former curators, Dr. Dan Evans between the 1980's and 2000's. Apart from these …