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)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 April 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Royal Botanic Garden
Access Rights: Public Domain
Collection Statistics
  • 678 occurrence
  • 300 (44%) georeferenced
  • 111 (16%) identified to species
  • 58 families
  • 41 genera
  • 51 species
  • 51 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Family Distribution
Click on the occurrence record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
  • Acanthaceae (1)
  • Apocynaceae (4)
  • Aptandraceae (2)
  • Arecaceae (8)
  • Aristolochiaceae (1)
  • Aspleniaceae (160)
  • Blechnaceae (28)
  • Calophyllaceae (1)
  • Chrysobalanaceae (2)
  • Cunoniaceae (1)
  • Cyatheaceae (86)
  • Cyperaceae (4)
  • Davalliaceae (1)
  • Dennstaedtiaceae (1)
  • Dioscoreaceae (14)
  • Dryopteridaceae (6)
  • Ebenaceae (5)
  • Elaeocarpaceae (5)
  • Euphorbiaceae (6)
  • Fabaceae (2)
  • Flagellariaceae (1)
  • Gnetaceae (1)
  • Hymenophyllaceae (9)
  • Joinvilleaceae (2)
  • Lamiaceae (2)
  • Lauraceae (5)
  • Lecythidaceae (1)
  • Lindsaeaceae (41)
  • Loganiaceae (3)
  • Lomariopsidaceae (3)
  • Malvaceae (2)
  • Melastomataceae (3)
  • Moraceae (5)
  • Myristicaceae (3)
  • Myrtaceae (11)
  • Oleandraceae (2)
  • Orchidaceae (24)
  • Pandanaceae (9)
  • Phyllanthaceae (2)
  • Piperaceae (3)
  • Pittosporaceae (1)
  • Poaceae (4)
  • Polypodiaceae (34)
  • Primulaceae (1)
  • Pteridaceae (77)
  • Rubiaceae (11)
  • Rutaceae (3)
  • Salicaceae (1)
  • Sapindaceae (5)
  • Sapotaceae (2)
  • Selaginellaceae (6)
  • Solanaceae (13)
  • Taccaceae (7)
  • Tectariaceae (27)
  • Thelypteridaceae (12)
  • Urticaceae (2)
  • Violaceae (1)
  • Zingiberaceae (1)