Herbarium Curation

The herbarium collections are the core of BRIT and support ongoing research projects. Here you can read about our projects related to our collections.

Herbarium Curatorial Projects are led by Tiana F. Rehman.

Current Research

Xylarium

A xylarium, xylotheque, and xylothek are all words to describe a collection of wood (the Greek word for "wood" is xylon). In trees, the secondary xylem, the tissue that tr

Gretchen and Stanley Jones Palynological Collection

In spring 2014, BRIT received the gift of the Gretchen and Stanley Jones Palynological Collection (a special collection for the study of pollen), personally built by Dr

Microscope Slide Collection

The BRIT Microscope Slide Collection incorporates over 16,000 glass microscope slides, representing an important resource for the study of pollen and plant anatomy.

R. Dale Thomas Collection (NLU)

Prior to its move to BRIT, the R. Dale Thomas Collection (NLU) was housed at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Herbarium Digitization

The BRIT herbarium is in the process of imaging key specimens at a high resolution and converting textual and graphical elements into a digital format.

Herbarium Inventory

The BRIT herbarium reports more than one million specimens. In 2015 BRIT conducted an inventory of its herbarium, recording every species name, a sheet count for each species, and the geographic region of each collection.