The Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
                                        at Florida State University

Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium is a museum-quality collection of over 200,000 plant and microalgae specimens. These document the distribution and natural variation of the 2,400 species of flowering plants, ferns, conifers, and cycads found in northern Florida-one of North America's biodiversity hotspots-and the microalgae of Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Each plant specimen is carefully identified, pressed, dried, and mounted to archival standards, with accompanying data on where and when it was collected. The specimens are a valued resource to local, state, national, and international biologists studying plant and microalgae systematics, ecology, evolution, biogeography, conservation biology, anatomy, and morphology. New specimens are added to the collection each week. In August 2003, Austin Mast became the new director of the herbarium. Though now retired, Loran Anderson remains active in the herbarium. The current curator is Chris Oakley.

In August of 2003 the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium set up a digital imaging system and SQL database. Currently 33,224 of our 200,000+ specimens have been entered into the herbarium's database. The database can be searched by following the database links on our menu or by clicking here.

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