Specimen Record

ContinentNorth America
CountryGuatemala
State/ProvinceBaja Verapaz
LocalityMountains Along National Route 5, About 6 Miles North Of Salama
Institution CodeLa
Catalog NumberLa00613781
Collected ByRobert Merrill King
Date Collected1960-07-11

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The UCLA Herbarium (LA) was founded in ca. 1930, and contains approximately 150,000 specimens, almost entirely dried vascular plants. The herbarium contains collections of notable UCLA biologists such as A. M. Johnson, Carl C. Epling, Margaret and Harlan Lewis, Peter H. Raven, Martin L. Cody, Henry J. Thompson, Jonathan Sauer, Joseph Andorfer Ewan, Elizabeth McClintock, Mildred E. Mathias, Lawrence L. Kiefer, Barbara Joe Hoshizaki and Barry A. Prigge. The core of the collection contains specimens collected between 1920-1970 from North America (75%), South America (13%), Asia & the Pacific (10%), Europe (1%), and Africa (1%). The UCLA Herbarium also maintains a Santa Monica Mountains Collection and Los Angeles Basin (ca. 12,000 specimens), a Baja California Collection (ca. 4,000 specimens), a Type Collection (500 specimens), and a collection of cultivated plants from 1900-1960 West Los Angeles (ca. 8,000 specimens). Additional collection strengths include the Crassulaceae, Lamiaceae, Loasaceae, and Onagraceae clades.

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26df5568-a5fb-4ca1-8dcd-7cacecaa1e86. LA00613781. LA - University of California, Los Angeles Herbarium. LA - University of California, Los Angeles Herbarium. http://portal.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/ef77ec72-6537-41ab-a418-17f9a58e6e73. Accessed on June 7, 2026.
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