The UBC Herbarium houses the largest collection of plants in western Canada, with more than 600,000 specimens from around the world. Nearly half of those specimens are bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts), making the UBC bryophyte collection the largest in Canada, and one of the best in the world.
The Herbarium holds the world’s largest collection of BC plants, as well as important collections of Pacific algae, fungi, Hawaiian plants, tropical prayer plants, and cyanolichens. This collection is critical to the identification, monitoring, and conservation of plant biodiversity in British Columbia, and is an important resource for education and scientific research.
The numbers of accessioned specimens in each collection are as follows:
223 000
242 000
85 000
40 000
16 000
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vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and allies)
bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts)
algae (mostly seaweed)
lichens
fungi
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