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Austin Peay State University Herbarium (APSC)Austin Peay State University Herbarium (APSC), established in 1942, has roughly 138,000 specimens and is the second largest herbarium in the Kentucky/Tennessee region (as of 2024). Although located in Clarksville Tennessee, the APSC collection is mostly Kentucky-based with significant collections from the Louisville, Bowling Green, and Land Between the Lakes areas. In 2017, APSC nearly doubled from its previous size due to the acquisition of the former Western Kentucky University herbarium (WKU) and Davies Herbarium of Louisville (DHL). These herbaria included the extensive unprocessed personal collections of Max Medley, a prolific botanist. Over the next six years these specimens were processed and integrated into APSC, with the final specimens filed into the cabinets by late 2022. Throughout this process every incoming specimen's identity was verified by former collections manager Mason Brock, resulting in >15,000 identity-changing annotations. Contacts: Mason Brock, Collections Manager, masebrock@gmail.com Homepage: https://www.apsu.edu/herbarium/ Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal Global Unique Identifier: 25b418e1-125e-4a85-9ef2-8f02593ebb55 DwC-Archive Access Point: https://nansh.org/portal/content/dwca/APSC_DwC-A.zip Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Collection Statistics
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