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LA - University of California, Los Angeles Herbarium
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The UCLA Herbarium (LA) was founded in ca. 1930, and contains approximately 150,000 specimens, almost entirely dried vascular plants. The herbarium contains collections of notable UCLA biologists such as A. M. Johnson, Carl Epling, Margaret and Harlan Lewis, Peter H. Raven, Martin A. Cody, Henry J. Thompson, Jonathan Sauer, Joseph Andorfer Ewan, Elizabeth McClintock, Mildred E. Mathias, Lawrence L. Kiefer, Barbara Joe Hoshizaki and Barry A. Prigge. The core of the collection contains specimens collected between 1920-1970 from North America (75%), South America (13%), Asia & the Pacific (10%), Europe (1%), and Africa (1%). The UCLA Herbarium also maintains a collection of cultivated plants from West Los Angeles (ca. 8,000 specimens), a Santa Monica Mountains Collection and Los Angeles Basin (ca. 11,000 specimens), a Baja California Collection (ca. 4,000 specimens), and a Type Collection (500 specimens). Additional collection strengths include the Lamiaceae, Loasaceae, and Onagraceae clades.

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Curator: Anthony Baniaga abaniaga@ucla.edu
Cite this collection:
LA - University of California, Los Angeles Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: ) https://cch2.org/portal/content/dwca/LA_DwC-A.zip accessed via the Symbiota Local Portal Portal, https://dev010.symbiota.org/Portal, 2026-06-22).
Collection Statistics
  • 26,636 (36%) georeferenced
  • 56,798 (78%) with media (57,092 total media)
  • 46,066 (63%) specimen records
  • 239 Families
  • 1,538 Genera
  • 6,854 Species
  • 8,861 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data
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Global Unique Identifier: a70436a2-dfaa-482e-88e0-5193a66b0bfc
Digital Metadata: EML File
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