Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, UK (RBG-K)

Funded as a government institution in 1841; Kew herbarium and library founded in 1852. Around 7 million vascular plant specimens (including approximately 330,000 types) and 1.25 million fungi specimens. This dataset has been updated to follow the APG IV system.

Contact: Alan Paton, Head of Collections (a.paton@kew.org)

Home Page: https://apps.kew.org/herbcat/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International)

Rights Holder: Royal Botanic Garden

Access Rights: Public Domain

• 678 occurrence
• 300 (44%) georeferenced
• 111 (16%) identified to species
• 58 families
• 41 genera
• 51 species
• 51 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)