Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile

University of California, Davis Center for Plant Diversity - Algae (DAV-Algae)

The Center for Plant Diversity herbarium at the University of California, Davis houses collections primarily of marine macroalgae and from east and west coasts of North America. It is one of four collections in the John M. Tucker Herbarium, the others being vascular, lichens, and bryophytes. Our emphasis is on California species (ca 50% of our collections).

Curator: Alison Colwell, aelcolwell@ucdavis.edu, 530-752-1091 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3011-3933)
Collections Manager: Teri Barry, tcbarry@ucdavis.edu, 530-752-1091
Homepage: https://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: eea73e03-b82e-4111-a1c0-391d95a5aa38
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://macroalgae.org/portal/content/dwca/DAV_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity
Plant Sciences Mail Stop 7, One Shields Avenue
Davis, California   95616
United States
530-752-1091
This is USPS mailing address, see our website for address for other couriers.
Collection Statistics
  • 1,984 specimen records
  • 1,845 (93%) georeferenced
  • 1,959 (99%) with images (1,959 total images)
  • 1,772 (89%) identified to species
  • 84 families
  • 246 genera
  • 504 species
  • 518 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Mozambique
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term