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BOTANY DEPARTMENT COLLECTIONS: Overview | Specimen Holdings | Collectors | Organization | Publications | Types | Chiapas | Gaoligong Shan | Search STATISTICS on the SPECIMEN HOLDINGS in the HERBARIUM of the BOTANY DEPARTMENT The Botany Department of the California Academy of Sciences contains two herbaria, the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Dudley Herbarium of Stanford University (DS). These two herbaria function as a single unit although the Dudley Herbarium is still the legal property of Stanford University. The combined herbaria (CAS/DS) are the largest collection of vascular plants in the western United States and the sixth largest collection of vascular plants in the United States overall. The following data are as of October 31, 2006.
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California.........................520,000
Non Californian.................460,000 
Mexico(except Chiapas).....250,000
Chiapas, Mexico.................70,000
Non Mexican.....................145,000 
Europe, Middle East, and North Asia....... 215,000
East, Southeast, and South Asia............. 140,000
Cultivated................................ 41,000
Africa ................................... 32,000
Pacific Islands........................... 15,000
Total non-vascular plants................... 72,500
