Bishop Museum
Department of Natural Sciences
Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-2704
United States
Barbara Kennedy, Collections Manager
Email: bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org
The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) collection consists of approximately 750,000 plant, algae and fungi specimens. Our emphasis is on Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin, but we also house representative material from other world regions. The collections of Hawaiian plants form the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of such specimens in the world, with approximately 182,500 specimens.
Summary of Collections at BISH as of November, 2011.
- Type specimens: 13,132
- Vascular plants: c.609,552
- Bryophytes: c.31,120
- Algae: 78,163
- Fungi & lichens: c.14,256
- Total: c.746,223
Numerous collections of major importance to Hawaiian botany and phycology are located at BISH, including those by H. St. John, F.R. Fosberg, O. Degener, J.F. Rock, C.N. Forbes, B.C. Stone, D.R. Herbst, W.L. Wagner, D. Nelson, U.J. Faurie, G.C. Munro, H. Mann, W.T. Brigham, I.A. Abbott, and M.S. Doty. Type specimens have been imaged and are housed in a fire-protected room.