**Code**: [FLAS](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124528) **Organization**: Florida Museum of Natural History **Location**: Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 480000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1891 **Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants; bryophytes; lichens; fungi, especially agarics and polypores; wood collection; seed collection **Geographic coverage**: Florida, southeastern U.S. coastal plain, and the neotropics; worldwide wood specimens **Incorporated herbaria**: A.K. Gholson, 18,000, in 1989, Rollins College, M.F. Baker of Rollins College, 10,000, in 2012 **Important collectors**: J. Richard Abbott, M.F. Baker, A.H. Curtiss, A. Cuthbert, R.L. Dressler, A.P. Garber, A.K. Gholson, R.K. Godfrey, D.G. Griffin, III, S.C. Hood, H.H. Hume, W.S. Judd, W.A. Murrill, S. Rapp, P.H. Rolfs, F. Rugel, J.K. Small, E.P. St. John, R.P. St. John, D.B. Ward, E. West **Notes**: Updated Aug 2018 (addess, details and staff update). \*\*\* The fungal herbarium is stored in a different location on campus: Please address shipments of fungal specimens to: Dr. Matthew E. Smith, Curator, Fungal Herbarium, Department of Plant Pathology, 2527 Fifield Hall, 2550 Hull Rd., University of Florida, P.O. Box 110180, Gainesville, FL, 32611-0180. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-09-03 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.