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CATA - Catalina Island Conservancy Herbarium Vascular Plants (CATA-Vascular)

The Catalina Island Conservancy Herbarium houses about 2,000 vascular plant specimens. All specimens were collected on Santa Catalina Island. 73% of the specimens were collected in the 1970's and 1990's by Mark L. Hoefs.

Curator, Plant Conservation Manager: Ryan Murdoff, rmurdoff@catalinaconservancy.org
Contacts: Roya Miller, RMiller@catalinaconservancy.org
Contacts: Lauren Dennhardt, LDennhardt@catalinaconservancy.org
Homepage: http://www.catalinaconservancy.org/index.php?s=about&p=about_cic
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 25d4de3b-3bf3-40ec-aed6-ca26cf996f7b
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://cch2.org/portal/content/dwca/CATA-Vascular_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 3,678 specimen records
  • 2,416 (66%) georeferenced
  • 3,640 (99%) identified to species
  • 118 families
  • 450 genera
  • 726 species
  • 889 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agrostis (8)
  • Andropogon (2)
  • Aristida (5)
  • Arundo (5)
  • Avena (15)
  • Bothriochloa (9)
  • Brachypodium (13)
  • Briza (3)
  • Bromus (102)
  • Cortaderia (13)
  • Crypsis (3)
  • Cynodon (7)
  • Dactylis (4)
  • Dactyloctenium (1)
  • Desmazeria (5)
  • Dissanthelium (6)
  • Distichlis (17)
  • Echinochloa (1)
  • Ehrharta (8)
  • Elymus (14)
  • Festuca (32)
  • Gastridium (9)
  • Hainardia (9)
  • Hordeum (37)
  • Koeleria (2)
  • Lamarckia (13)
  • Leptochloa (1)
  • Melica (20)
  • Muhlenbergia (14)
  • Nassella (1)
  • Oryza (1)
  • Panicum (6)
  • Parapholis (3)
  • Paspalum (6)
  • Pennisetum (24)
  • Phalaris (27)
  • Poa (13)
  • Polypogon (45)
  • Schismus (18)
  • Sorghum (3)
  • Stipa (47)
  • Triticum (1)