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Department of
Botany
Our mission is to discover the diversity of plant life in marine and terrestrial environments, to describe this diversity, to interpret the evolutionary origin of this diversity, and to explain the processes responsible for this diversity. In addition, we aim to understand how humans are affected by and have altered plant diversity on the planet. Our plant collections total 5 million specimens, making this collection among the ten largest in the world.
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The plant collections of the Department of Botany are among the most important worldwide. This vast and intensely managed collection of over 5 million specimens represents a premier national and international resource.
