University of California, Santa Barbara

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  • Name

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Herbarium Code

    UCSB

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Katja Seltmann, Katherine Esau Director / Entomology Curator, seltmann@ccber.ucsb.edu
    Gregory Wahlert, Botanist/Collections Manager, wahlert@ccber.ucsb.edu

  • Contact

    [1] 805 893 2401
    Fax: [1] 805 893 4222
    Email: wahlert@ccber.ucsb.edu

  • Address

    Herbarium
    The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
    University of California, Santa Barbara
    Harder South, Bldg. 578, Room 1009
    Santa Barbara, California 93106
    U.S.A.
    http://ccber.ucsb.edu/collections/botanical/

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, macroalgae, lichens, diatoms

    Geography: Western North America, especially central and southern California; some worldwide; Vernon Cheadle and Katherine Esau Structural Botanical Collection; marine macroalgae of the Pacific Coast of North America.

  • Notes

    Updated Sep 2019. C. H. Muller oak collection (2000 specimens) deposited in 1989. UCSB same as SBC; use UCSB. Digital data published in GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/publisher/cae7b6c7-669a-4261-9a34-6e8cdc16a125); vascular plants digitized in Consortium of California Herbaria Portal (http://www.cch2.org); macroalgae in Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium Portal (https://macroalgae.org); lichens in Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (https://lichenportal.org).

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  • Number of Specimens

    100000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae 10000 6498 2379
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens 1100 1008 994
    Pteridophytes 1100 1020 1017
    Seed Plants 88000 43735 43732
  • Date Founded

    1948

  • Updated

    03/09/2019

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    Algae of SBM (864 specimens) permanently transferred to UCSB in 2011;
    All plant specimens (1,500) of SCIR in September 2017;
    Los Padres National Forest (650 specimens);
    Part of Santa Barbara Society of Natural History (450 specimens).

  • Important Collectors

    R. F. Bingham, V. J. Chapman