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College of Southern Nevada; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium

Specimen Records: 70,631
Media Records: 11,774
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-03-25

Founded in 1970 by Dr. Wesley E. Niles, the herbarium now holds about 70,000 specimens. Its primary focus is the vascular plant diversity in the Mojave Desert regions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. In 2023, the herbarium was transferred to the College of Southern Nevada.  It is housed in the building A of the Henderson campus. Important collections include those of T. Ackerman (Desert National Wildlife Refuge); J. C. Beatley (Nevada Test Site); V. Bostick (central and southern Nevada); D. Charlet (Nevada); I.W. Clokey (Spring Mountains); M.Kurzius, D. Schramm, P. Peterson, and C. Annabel (Death Valley, California, and Nevada); S. Meyer (southern Nevada); A. Tiehm, A. Pinzl, and H. Mozingo (central and northern Nevada); W. Niles, P. Leary, J. Holland, and J. Alexander (Nevada, California, and Arizona), and L. Stark (bryophytes of southwestern deserts). Email marcus.hooker@csn.edu to request access to redacted data.

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Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
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Emailhbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
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Emailmatthew.mahrt@csn.edu
Name Matthew Mahrt
RoleCurator
Emailmatthew.mahrt@csn.edu
Name Marcus Hooker
RoleCollection Manager
Emailmarcus.hooker@csn.edu
Name Matthew Mahrt
RoleCurator
Emailmatthew.mahrt@csn.edu
Name Marcus Hooker
RoleCollection Manager
Emailmarcus.hooker@csn.edu
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
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