Herbarium Pacificum (Bishop Museum) (BISH)
The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) collection consists of more than 710,000 plant, algae and fungi specimens. Our emphasis is on Hawai'i and the Pacific Basin, but we also house representative material from other world regions. The collections of Hawaiian plants form the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of such specimens in the world, with approximately 187,000 specimens.
Numerous collections of major importance to Hawaii and Pacific botany and phycology are located at BISH, including those by H. St. John, F.R. Fosberg, O. Degener, J.F. Rock, C.N. Forbes, B.C. Stone, D.R. Herbst, W.L. Wagner, D. Nelson, U.J. Faurie, G.C. Munro, H. Mann, W.T. Brigham, I.A. Abbott, and M.S. Doty. Type specimens have been imaged at high resolution and are available online via JSTOR's Global Plants and are housed in a fire-protected room.
Contacts: Barbara Kennedy, Collections Manager, bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org
Homepage: http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/natsci/botany/botany.html
Rights Holder: Bernice Puahi Bishop Museum
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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Herbarium Pacificum
1525 Bernice Street
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265,377 specimen records
40,433 (15%) georeferenced
203,206 (77%) identified to species
2,490 genera