Buffalo State College

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  • Name

    Buffalo State College

  • Herbarium Code

    ECK

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Daniel Potts, Director of the Herbarium, pottsdl@buffalostate.edu

  • Contact

    [1] 716 878 5203
    [1] 716 878 4609
    Fax: [1] 718 4028
    Email: pottsdl@buffalostate.edu

  • Address

    Eckert Herbarium
    Biology Department
    Buffalo State College
    1600 Elmwood Avenue
    Buffalo, New York 14222
    U.S.A.
    http://biology.buffalostate.edu/eckert-herbarium-0

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Plants and fungi

    Geography: Western New York state

  • Notes

    Updated Feb 2016 (email address corrected). The James D. Haynes Mycological Collection includes approximately 1800 fungi from New York State. The vascular plant collection includes about 16,175 specimens (242 families, 3750 taxa); the collection focuses primarily on the eight counties of western New York but also includes many specimens from elsewhere in the continental United States and Canada and small collections from Albania and Sweden

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  • Number of Specimens

    20700

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae 44 0 0
    Bryophytes 151 0 0
    Fungi/Lichens 3955 3555 0
    Pteridophytes 720 0 0
    Seed Plants 15455 0 0
  • Date Founded

    1960

  • Updated

    01/11/2019

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    Herbarium of Niagara University (vascular plants of Wesstern New York, 2500, in 2009);
    Herbarium of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (vascular plants of the Lake Erie basin, 183, 2011)

  • Important Collectors

    J. D. Haynes, E. Both, E. Randall, C. Sweeney