MyCoPortal Natural History Collections and Observation Projects


PH

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Collections Manager: Chelsea Smith, crs344@drexel.edu
Contacts: Botany Herbarium, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 591ea70b-223c-4ab8-aad8-9673dfc69cce
Digital Metadata: EML File


ACAD

Acadia University, E. C. Smith Herbarium

Established in 1910, the E.C. Smith Herbarium contains over 200,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, and fungi. It is the largest herbarium in Atlantic Canada and the first Canadian herbarium to have digital database with scanned images of the collection.
Contacts: Alain Belliveau, alain.belliveau@acadiau.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 November 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


ETH

Addis Ababa University, observation-based

Contacts: Sebsebe Demissew, sebseb.demissew@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0a7cfcc3-6245-4c9a-acec-8552c48b5d54
Digital Metadata: EML File


N/A

Atlas of Living Australia observation-based fungal data

Contacts: Tom May, Tom.May@rbg.vic.gov.au
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 August 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


N/A

Atlas of Living Australia specimen-based fungal data

Contacts: Tom May, Tom.May@rbg.vic.gov.au
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 August 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


BMSC

Bamfield Marine Science Centre

The 2018 Field Mycology students at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre collected fungi from the area. The collections are stored in the BMSC herbarium. Course instructors: John Klironomos, Dan Durall, Bryce Kendrick Teaching Assistant: Anna Bazzicalupo
Contacts: Elizabeth Rogers, Librarian, library@bamfieldmsc.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 90ccfdef-ca66-40a1-b8aa-ae2681f1f31d
Digital Metadata: EML File


BISH

Bishop Museum, Herbarium Pacificum

The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) collection consists of more than 710,000 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 collection of Hawaiian fungi contains approximately 15,100 specimens.
Contacts: Barbara Kennedy, Collections Manager, bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 December 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File


BRIT

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Over one million plant specimens are housed in the BRIT Herbarium (the combined BRIT-SMU and VDB collections), making this the largest independent herbarium in the southeastern US. The herbarium has strengths in the plants of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, the Gulf Coast, and the southeastern United States. However, these collections are worldwide in scope, and most of the Earth’s plant families are represented here. Two of our current research projects, one in Peru and one in Papua New Guinea, have greatly expanded the scope of our collection of tropical specimens.
Contacts: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e930b44a-b92c-4727-a697-c816960bc747
Digital Metadata: EML File


N/A

Brazil SpeciesLink Fungi data from iDigBio

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 March 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File


BDWR

Bridgewater College Herbarium

The herbarium at Bridgewater College (BDWR) is a small, primarily teaching collection started in the 1950’s. It currently houses about 5000 vascular plant specimens, of which 4000 have been digitized and searchable on https://sernecportal.org/portal/. The majority of specimens (70%) are from Virginia and about 60% originated from Rockingham and Augusta counties (central Shenandoah Valley). There is now a small, but quickly growing collection of about 400 dried macrofungal specimens.
Contacts: Edgar Lickey, elickey@bridgewater.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f796224e-3c3b-4055-8103-593534e12881
Digital Metadata: EML File


BRU

Brown University Herbarium

The Brown University Herbarium was founded in 1869 when the University acquired the collections of the Providence Franklin Society and Stephen Thayer Olney. The collection includes around 100,000 plant specimens and is an important depository of Rhode Island and New England collections. It is also rich in western and southern North American plants and includes special sets of historically valuable specimens from 19th and early 20th century western US expeditions. Among other important collections, the herbarium also includes a full set of Charles Wright’s Cuban plants (1856-1867) and a unique and classic collection of Carex.
Contacts: Rebecca Kartzinel, Rebecca_Kartzinel@brown.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c1da60fd-2e8c-40b4-adf6-8c886db4062f
Digital Metadata: EML File


HSC-F

Cal Poly Humboldt Fungarium

The CPH Fungarium is a collection of regional macrofungi numbering over 5000 specimens. It is the largest (in fact, only) fungarium to house as many specimens specifically from the northwestern California Klamath Mountains bioregion. Taxa covered include all major orders, families, and genera of Agaricomycetes, as well as many Ascomycota. These regional specimens have been accessioned since the late 1960’s primarily by Prof. Emeritus David Largent and a succession of his graduate students. In addition to the regional collection, the Fungarium also houses approximately 4000 specimens of tropical macrofungi from Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela, and Cameroon, associated with the research of current HSU mycologist, Dr. T.W. Henkel and his graduate students. This extremely valuable collection includes holotype specimens for more than 150 species and genera new to science that were described over the past 20 years, and many more new taxa awaiting formal description. Specimens of both collections are available for study by outside researchers and specimen loans. Digitization of the collections has begun as of 2021 with the goal of digitizing the collections entirely over the coming years.

Contacts: Sarah Norvell, sarah.norvell@humboldt.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 988b1f42-f656-4558-8ea2-8d59ecc652fe
Digital Metadata: EML File

California Department of Food and Agriculture - Fungi

Fungi collections dataset for the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDA).

Founded in the 1920s, the Botany Lab and Herbarium of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (Plant Pest Diagnostics Center) serves as the plant diagnostic and identification service for California, and is the repository for the state collection of noxious weed and agricultural plant specimens. Size of collection: ca. 55,000 plant specimens. Notable collections include those of CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioner staff, M. K. Bellue, T. C. Fuller, G. Douglas Barbe, G. F. Hrusa, and G. L. Stout. The Gilbert L. Stout Plant Disease Herbarium (CDA-BPS) has ca. 10,000 unaccessioned specimens, integration into CDA is in progress.

Collections are available via the CCH2 Portal [https://www.cch2.org/portal/index.php]
Algae collections dataset for the California Department of Food and Agriculture - Algae (CDA) are available via the Macroalgae Portal [https://macroalgae.org/portal/index.php]
Fungi collections dataset for the California Department of Food and Agriculture - Fungi (CDA) are available via the MyCoPortal [https://www.mycoportal.org]

CITES US 241; APHIS PPQ Containment facility #889; Foreign Importation PPQ 588 P526P-20-04200 [exp 10302023]; Interstate movement PPQ 526 P526P-20-02933 [exp 07012023]; CA State Diagnostic Plant Pest Permit 2828 [exp 08312023]; CDFW CESA (2081(a)-19-011-RP) AMENDMENT 1.

The CDFA PPDC Seed Herbarium has ca. 50,000 accessions in the Seed and Fruit Collection (CDA SFC), and is curated and databased separately from CDA (curator Deborah J. Meyer, retired Volunteer). Notable collections in CDA-SFC include those of CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioner staff, M. K. Bellue, B. Crampton, P. B. Kennedy, D. Baxter, B. M. Browning, D. Decker-Walters, and C. Dremann.

Curator & Senior Plant Taxonomist: Genevieve Walden, genevieve.walden@cdfa.ca.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 934c50da-acb8-4184-9ee1-cb72427b0599
Digital Metadata: EML File


CHSC

California State University Chico, Ahart Herbarium

Primarily North America, emphasis on northern California; 10,400 myxomycetes, many from Donald Kowalski and 1487 from the personal collection of Dwayne Curtis.

Contacts: Lawrence Janeway, Curator, LJaneway@csuchico.edu
Herbarium Director: Colleen Hatfield, chatfield@csuchico.edu, 530-898-4235
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 August 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File


HAY

California State University East Bay Fungarium

The fungal collections of HAY at California State University East Bay (formerly CSU Hayward) currently include over 1000 macrofungal specimens, with several thousand additional specimens expected to be accessioned in 2023-2024. The collection consists primarily of Agaricomycotina and Pezizomycotina specimens from California, Hawai'i and Vanuatu, including vouchers resulting from the studies of Dr. Brian Perry and students.

Director: Brian Perry, brian.perry@csueastbay.edu, (510) 885-4013 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-0036-6032)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6ed3b213-3ba6-4d5d-b5b1-e2eae672d8dd
Digital Metadata: EML File


AAFC-DAOM

Canadian National Mycological Herbarium

The mycological collection holds over 350,000 fungal and fungal plant disease specimens which make it the largest fungarium of non lichenized fungi in Canada. The specimens are used as vouchers for scientific research, scientific names and living fungal cultures maintained in the Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures (CCFC). Herbarium specimens document the existence of indigenous and invasive species (agents of disease: pathogens, toxigenic species, symbionts, saprophytes and other biodiversity components) in all Canadian provinces and territories, on different types of hosts, at different stages of their life cycles, and during different times of the year. The fungarium also holds many representatives of foreign disease-causing fungi which can be used for comparative purposes. Lichenized fungi (that is to say, those forming lichens) are generally excluded and by written agreement are housed in the lichen section (CANL) of the National Herbarium of Canada (CAN) at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Curator: Scott Redhead, aafc.herbier-daom-herbarium.aac@agr.gc.ca, (613) 759-1384 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-9715-3705)
Collections Manager: Shannon Asencio, shannon.asencio@AGR.GC.CA, (613) 715-5314 (ORCID #: 0000-0003-4984-1081)
Herbarium Technician: Jennifer Wilkinson, jennifer.wilkinson@AGR.GC.CA, (613) 759-6521 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-9958-9796)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 July 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: ©His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Access Rights: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada


WSP

Charles Gardner Shaw Mycological Herbarium, Washington State University

The Charles Gardner Shaw Mycological Herbarium contains over 75,000 accessioned fungal specimens. Important collections include: smuts (G.W. Fischer, R. Duran, L.M. Carris, K. Vanky); downy mildews (C.G. Shaw); powdery mildews (D.A. Glawe); Xylariaceae, Diatrypaceae, and other pyrenomycetes (J. D. Rogers & others); and fungi on grasses (R. Sprague), with a focus on the Northwest United States. Fungal exsiccati of historical Northwest collectors including Suksdorf, Piper, & others are available, as well as original complete sets of Fungi Columbiani (E. & E., Bartholomew) and North American Fungi (Ellis & Everhart). Collections from the whole USA, Canada, the UK, Austria, Germany, Finland, Romania & E. Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan & SE Asia, Russia, and New Zealand are also well represented.

Collections Manager: Monique Slipher, mslipher@wsu.edu, (509)335-5242
General Contact: Herbarium Email, test@wsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a86f1b5e-693d-48d5-96ab-36f4bdd1be7e
Digital Metadata: EML File


CHRB

Chrysler Herbarium - Mycological Collection

The Chrysler Herbarium (CHRB) is the last internationally recognized herbarium still in existence in the state of New Jersey. Over 150,000 vascular plant and algal collections, about 7,000 moss and liverwort specimens, and 2,600 lichen specimens form are collection and are arranged and catalogued systematically. The collection is worldwide in scope, with an emphasis on New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic area, and contains specimens back to the mid-1800s.

Contacts: Dr. James White, Mycology Curator, jwhite@sebs.rutgers.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: de4dc41d-b50a-4638-8d6a-7604d3e1abfd
Digital Metadata: EML File


CLEMS

Clemson University Herbarium

The Clemson University Herbarium is dedicated to the acquisition and distribution of information on the taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of native species of the southeastern United States. It is one of the largest collections in the state and serves as a more or less permanent documentation of the flora of South Carolina. The herbarium is maintained as a research and educational tool available to Clemson University students, faculty and staff as well as interested individual researchers from throughout the world.

Contacts: Dixie Damrel, ddamrel@clemson.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: eb2f20db-b912-405a-8241-fd0be2b0330a
Digital Metadata: EML File


HCOA

College of the Atlantic, Acadia National Park Herbarium

The College of the Atlantic/Acadia National Park Herbarium (HCOA) maintains a collection of over 12,000 dried specimens; most are from coastal Maine, but there are also plants from elsewhere in the United States and Canada. The herbarium's major collections include the Plants of Acadia National Park and the Plants of Coastal Maine – the latter collection was compiled by the noted naturalist Dr. William H. Drury, Jr., one of COA's earliest faculty members. The macrofungi collection is comprised of 648 specimens, the majority of which were collected by Walter Litten, associate faculty in mycology. Of the 648 specimens, 257 are from Acadia National Park.
Contacts: Geneva Langley, genevaerin@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bf2e2bce-8361-407d-8d28-e52424f1b278
Digital Metadata: EML File


CUP

Cornell University Plant Pathology Herbarium

The Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP) is a large research collection of preserved fungi and other organisms that cause plant diseases. CUP is the fourth largest mycological herbarium in North America. We hold about 400,000 fungus and plant disease specimens, including over 8000 type specimens. Our main geographic strength is northeastern North America, but we also hold important collections from the tropics including the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, Southeast Asia and Macaronesia. Our collections include many rare fungal exsiccati as well as many authors' herbaria (Atkinson, Durand, Fairman, Gremmen, Honey, Korf, Stewart, Welch). The CUP Photograph Collection supplements our specimens and comprises roughly 60,000 historical, scientific photographs of mushrooms, agricultural practices, plant diseases, and portraits of scientists.

Director of the Fungarium: Kathie Hodge, cup-herbarium@cornell.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3009-8435)
Collection Manager: Teresa Iturriaga, cup-herbarium@cornell.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0003-1958-9866)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: db7e5316-dfd6-4ffa-b26f-eaa54ce972a2
Digital Metadata: EML File


CBBG

Crested Butte Botanic Gardens

Contacts: Amy Honan, amyhhonan@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 287519f8-be60-44a7-afff-e3477231e42e
Digital Metadata: EML File

Cryptogamic Russian Information System (CRIS) Observational Data

Contacts: Alexey V. Melekhin, melihen@yandex.ru
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


DEWV

Davis & Elkins College Herbarium

The Davis & Elkins College Herbarium (DEWV) contains over 10,000 vouchers of macrofungi of West Virginia. This is an ongoing project documenting the distribution and diversity of macrofungi in the state. The project has yielded several new state records, including the discovery of species that have not previously been scientifically described. The herbarium also contains approximately 2,000 vascular plants.
Contacts: Michelle Mabry, mabrym@dewv.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6ffbca56-eceb-4ff8-8455-a385a4ecdc2e
Digital Metadata: EML File


DBG-DBG

Denver Botanic Gardens, Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi

Specialty: Fleshy fungi, ascomycetes, gasteromycetes, and Cortinariaceae of the Rocky Mountain region, mostly Colorado. Housed at Denver Botanic Gardens. Date Founded: 1963. Higher resolution images are available upon request.
Associate Curator: Andrew Wilson, andrew.wilson@botanicgardens.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-1623-4229)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 881dbacb-effd-4a6a-b4f4-45da2579e689
Digital Metadata: EML File


DUKE

Duke University Herbarium Fungal Collection

The Duke Fungal Herbarium was established by Duke mycologist Dr. Rytas Vilgalys in the early 1990's. The Herbarium consists mainly of Basidiomycete collections with special emphasis on Agaricomycetes. Specimens of Septobasidium, collected by Dr. Daniel Henk for his dissertation research, and dissertation research vouchers of truffles (Tuber) of Dr. Greg Bonito are accessioned in our holdings. Rich in new collections from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Newfoundland and Labrador, Columbia, South Africa and the United States. Significant collections from Papua New Guinea, France, Costa Rica and China.

Curator of Fungi: Rytas Vilgalys, fungi@duke.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1231eb25-bc07-4174-9660-69fe787f1c2e
Digital Metadata: EML File


EIU

Eastern Illinois University

The fungal collections of EIU emphasize macrofungi from Midwestern and southeastern North America with additional collections from the Pacific Coast of North America, Belgium, Belize, Costa Rica, Russia, Sweden, and New Zealand. There are approximately 15,000 specimens in the herbarium which are pertinent to this project, including vouchers for the studies of Andrew Methven and students (e.g., Hustad et al, 2011; Miller and Methven, 2000; Methven, 1997; Methven, 1990). EIU also houses approximately 15,000 photographic slides, 7,500 digital images, and 15,000 field notes stored with the specimens collected by Methven and students.

Contacts: Andrew Methven, asmethven@eiu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c6b69566-dbc2-4880-beff-0de0e8b4531d
Digital Metadata: EML File


QCAM

Ecuador Fungi data from FungiWebEcuador

FungiWebEcuador is an open access portal dedicated specifically to the publication of fungal diversity in Ecuador. The mission of FungiWeb is to present the most complete information about macro mushrooms in the country, which are deposited in the fungarium QCAM (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador). CITATION: Ordoñez, M. E. 2018. Base de datos del Fungario QCAM. Versión 1.0. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Disponible en Consulta: (Lunes, 24 de Septiembre de 2018).
Contacts: Maria Eugenia Ordoñez, MEORDONEZ@puce.edu.ec
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 September 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


TAM

Estonian Museum of Natural History

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, fungi, algae, and lichens mainly of Estonia; bryophytes. Geography: Estonia, some former Soviet Union and Scandinavia, arctic (Siberia and Far East), Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Europe. Part of the Estonian national fungal collections: Dried specimens of mushrooms and lichens are stored in four main collections in Estonia, the largest collections of which are located in Tartu (University of Tartu and Estonian University of Life Sciences) and the smaller ones in Tallinn (Tallinn Botanical Garden and Estonian Museum of Natural History). In total, about 600,000 dried specimens are stored in mushroom collections. Most of the materials kept in mushroom collections have been collected from Estonia, but a large part of the materials brought from the territory of the former USSR also form a large part. Nowadays, scientists have brought mushroom lichens from all continents. The collection of live fungal cultures consists of fungi that are grown on agar medium and kept alive under controlled conditions.

Contacts: Loore Ehrlich, Jana-Maria Habicht, loore@loodusmuuseum.ee, jana@loodusmuuseum.ee
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3ef46596-c6f8-47c7-abdc-59a7c405cf78
Digital Metadata: EML File


BAFC-H

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

La Colección BAFC-H, fue fundada en 1955 y está registrada desde 1959 en el Index Herbariorum. Es una Colección que alberga alrededor de 30000 especímenes de hongos secos argentinos y de otros países del mundo. Entre ellos se encuentran colecciones destacadas como las pertenecientes a I. Gamundi, M. Rajchenberg, R. Singer y J. E. Wright. Dicha Colección cuenta con alrededor de 200 tipos argentinos, como así también de otros países. El Cepario (Colección de Hongos vivos), a su vez, cuenta con 3500 cepas vivas conservadas en frío, liofilizadas o en vaselina. Ambas están vinculadas y mantienen intercambio con Instituciones similares del resto del país y del mundo. Las colecciones de hongos tienen gran importancia para la conservación del recurso genético y de la biodiversidad, y constituyen fuentes de referencia, certificación e investigación. Dada la función de resguardo de material e información que implica una Colección, es fundamental la accesibilidad a éstos, tanto en forma concreta como virtual. Es por ello, que la Colección BAFC-H ofrece “Investigación in situ”, Préstamo de ejemplares y Colección virtual a través del portal del GBIF, SNDB y Mycoportal
Contacts: Andrea Romero, romero@bg.fcen.uba.ar
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 October 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


F

Field Museum of Natural History

Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; economic botany.

Contacts: Wyatt Gaswick, wgaswick@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information


FNL

Foray Newfoundland and Labrador Fungarium

Contacts: Michael Burzynski, burzynski@nf.sympatico.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 February 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File


FNL

Foray Newfoundland and Labrador, observation-based

Contacts: Michael Burzynski, burzynski@nf.sympatico.ca
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 February 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File


FLD

Fort Lewis College Herbarium

The fungal collection of FLD contains approximately 1700 specimens of principally wood decay and macrofungi with a geographic focus on southwestern Colorado and the greater southwestern United States. The collection was started and built up by Dr. J. Page Lindsey who worked at Fort Lewis College from 1978-2009. FLD also includes a vascular plant collection consisting of ca. 17,000 specimens. The vascular plant collection is fully databased and searchable via the Southwest Environmental Information Network (https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/).

Contacts: Ross A. McCauley, mccauley_r@fortlewis.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 42ce404f-1ab4-4275-ad1a-1978347d4c17
Digital Metadata: EML File

Fungal Collection at the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz

The Fungal Collection at the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz (GLM) comprises more than 110,000 herbarium specimens of true fungi (Eumycota, exclusive lichens). The around 4,400 taxa represented are mainly from Eastern Germany and collected from the 2nd half of the 20th century to present. A major part consists of poroid and corticioid wood-inhabiting fungi, collected by I. Dunger and co-workers from 1968 to 1995. Within the last decade the taxonomical and geographical scope of the collection has been continually expanding, now with substantial material from other groups of macromycetes as Hebeloma and phytopathogenic fungi (see detailed Description of the Fungal Collection in GLM in German). Since 2014 the Mycology section is headed by Dr. Ulrike Damm.
Section leader: Ulrike Damm, ulrike.damm@senckenberg.de
Director of the Herbarium: Karsten Wesche, karsten.wesche@senckenberg.de, [49] 3581 4760 310
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 31 August 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: Herbert Boyle, Administrative point of contact: herbert.boyle@senckenberg.de

Fungal Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München

The Botanische Staatssammlung München is part of the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (acronym SNSB, that is, the Bavarian Natural History Collections). It offers research facilities and expert advice on plants and fungi based on a collection of 3.4 million herbarium specimens. These specimens represent the holdings of two intercalated herbaria, that of the Botanische Staatssammlung (acronym M) with 3.2 million and that of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (MSB with 200,000 specimens). The SNSB IT Center is located in the Botanische Staatssammlung and acts as a central institutional data repository for the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns. Our research focuses on flowering plants from Europe, South-East Asia, and South America and on fungi, lichens, and algae worldwide with a number of national and international projects. Research products include taxonomic revisions, floristic projects, vegetation surveys, molecular phylogenetics, and biodiversity informatics. The Botanische Staatssammlung is an active member of the international network of herbaria, and each year we send on loan more than 5,000 specimens.
Curator of Algae and Fungi: Dagmar Triebel, triebel@snsb.de, [49] 89 17861 265
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 August 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns
Access Rights: Dagmar Triebel, Administrative point of contact: triebel@snsb.de


FunDiS

Fungal Diversity Survey

Our Mission is to increase scientific knowledge and public awareness of the critical role of fungi in the health of our ecosystems and to better utilize and protect them in a world of rapid climate change and habitat loss. We will do this by equipping citizen and professional scientists with the reporting tools to document the diversity and distribution of fungi across North America. Our Vision: A world in which the fungal kingdom is fully documented, understood, appreciated, harnessed, and protected.
Contacts: Bitty Roy, bit@uoregon.edu
Contacts: Jean Lodge, dlodgester@gmail.com
Contacts: Bill Sheehan, bill@productpolicy.org
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1f33fc75-fb0b-424c-a7bf-7e4790738ac8
Digital Metadata: EML File


British Mycological Society

Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland

The Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland (a.k.a. BMSFRD) contains records of fungi from forays of the British Mycological Society, various surveys (e.g. SNH waxcap grassland survey), forays of the many local recording groups, individuals, and published records of British fungi from the Transactions of the British Mycological Society, the Bulletin, and their successors: Mycological Research, Mycologist, Field Mycology and other publications (data collection sponsored by JNCC; see Cannon, Mycologist 12(1): 25, 1998). See more at: https://basidiochecklist.science.kew.org/BritishFungi/FRDBI/FRDBI.asp
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 September 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

Fungal records database of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra

The mycological research in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra stems from isolated studies in the beginning of the 20th century, but regular and systematic research dates back to the 1970-80s. Over the following decades several dozens of researches have worked in the area and a total of about 150 scientific works have been published. No attempts to summarize the results of previous works and to create a regional checklist have been accomplished before. Fungal Records Database of Yugra (FReDY) was developed to accumulate the results of previous studies published up to date. The FReDY database includes 22 fields describing species name, publication source, herbarium number, date of sampling, geography, vegetation, substrate, and some other ecological features. Records in the database were collected from previously published works, e.g. results of inventories of fungi in the region. The herbarium specimens or other unpublished records were not included in the database at this stage. Presently, the dataset includes about 12,000 of fungal records in the region and adjacent areas, reported from 77 scientific publications. According to the database summary report, there are about 2,600 species and subspecies taxa identified within KHMAO up-to-date. The richest studied groups are Agaricoid basidiomycetes (30%), Lichens (37%) and Aphyllophoroid basidiomycetes (19%). The less studied groups are Ascomycetes (9%), Myxomycetes (3%), Heterobasidiomycetous fungi, Yeasts and Rusts (<1%).
Contacts: Nina Filippova, filippova.courlee.nina@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 October 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


KR

Fungus Collections at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe

The Bavarian Natural History Collections (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, SNSB) are a public consortium of scientific research institutions, natural history museums and a botanical garden. They are a sub-item of the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts. All these institutions are located in Bavaria and have a wide range of tasks and goals. The data provided by the SNSB are processed by the SNSB IT Center (www.snsb.info).
Administrative point of contact: Markus Scholler, scholler@naturkundeka-bw.de, [49] 721 175 2161
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 August 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns
Access Rights: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/61a9ca38-b62f-11e2-afcb-00145eb45e9a


FH

Harvard University, Farlow Herbarium

The Farlow Herbarium houses nearly 1,400,000 specimens of lichenized and non-lichenized fungi, bryophytes, and algae. The collections are world-wide in scope; particular strengths are in bound, indexed exsiccatae, bryophytes and fungi from Asia, entomogenous fungi, Antarctic lichens, and special "authors" herbaria which contain many type specimens. The Herbarium also has an associated library, The Farlow Reference Library, including the Archives of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. Currently, the New England Botanical Club cryptogamic collection is also housed in the Farlow Herbarium.
Contacts: Donald H. Pfister, dpfister@oeb.harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 March 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Access Rights: http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/addenda.html#policy


FR

Herbarium Senckenbergianum

The Herbarium Senckenbergianum Frankfurt/M. (FR) of the Senckenbergische Gesellschaft für Naturforschende Frankfurt/M., founded in 1817, houses more than 1.2 million collections and ranks among the largest herbaria in Germany. Three-quarters of these are phanerogams. The cryptogam collection contains approximately 55,000 ferns, 52,000 lichens, 45,000 mosses, and 7,000 algae. Geographically, the collection is focussed on Hesse and Central Europe, but other regions of the globe are well represented, too. These include Ethiopia, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Japan, Europe, the Mediterranean, the Mid-Atlantic Islands, and the West African Savannah regions (especially Burkina Faso, Bénin, and Nigeria). Since 2009 the Herbarium Senckenbergianum comprises also botanical collections in Görlitz (GLM), Weimar (IQW) and Wilhelmshaven. The fungal herbarium (ca. 40,000 specimens) contains mostly parasitic fungi, many of them in large exsiccata series. The most important collectors are G. Eberle, K. Fuckel, G. J. Herpell, H. Rupprecht and R. Steppan. The lichen herbarium (ca. 78,000 specimens) includes the important historical collections of Jakob Adolf Metzler (with many exsiccata series by Anzi, Arnold, Hepp, Nylander) and Ludwig Scriba as well as contemporary collections.
Contacts: Georg Zizka, Director of the Herbarium, georg.zizka@senckenberg.de
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 April 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


iNat

iNaturalist Research Grade Observations

From hikers to hunters, birders to beach-combers, the world is filled with naturalists, and many of us record what we find. What if all those observations could be shared online? You might discover someone who finds beautiful wildflowers at your favorite birding spot, or learn about the birds you see on the way to work. If enough people recorded their observations, it would be like a living record of life on Earth that scientists and land managers could use to monitor changes in biodiversity, and that anyone could use to learn more about nature.
Contacts: Ken-ichi Ueda, help@inaturalist.org
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 June 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: © held by the observer (listed as 'Collector') at iNaturalist.org, with some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)


BPI

Index of the C.G. Lloyd Mycological Collection Specimens Housed at BPI

Curtis Gates Lloyd was a prominent American mycologist active from the late 1880s until his death in 1926. The C. G. Lloyd Mycological Collection was transferred to the United States Department of Agriculture Mycology Collections in 1927 and is currently housed at the USDA Agricultural Research Service U.S. National Fungus Collections (Herbarium BPI) in Beltsville, MD. The Lloyd Collection is likely the largest fungal herbarium ever assembled by a single person and consists of approximately 59,000 specimens. These cards represent the original index to the Lloyd Collection prepared in 1928 and include valuable specimen information and annotations.
Contacts: Lisa A. Castlebury, Lisa.Castlebury@ARS.USDA.GOV
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: aff6704d-907d-4c0f-bfe1-0d17e871c0b5
Digital Metadata: EML File


IASD

Indian Ascomycetes Fungal Database

Contacts: Kiran R. Ranadive, ranadive.kiran@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9aa13f39-ac73-4eba-8890-ef7052e3f2eb
Digital Metadata: EML File


IMUD

Indian Marine Fungi Database

Contacts: Kiran Ranadive, ranadive.kiran@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 06ee4768-8a43-433b-b055-047ca5d77f5c
Digital Metadata: EML File


IMUD

Indian Mushroom Database

Contacts: Kiran Ranadive, ranadive.kiran@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1f9930ca-80a1-4e15-893f-4e7d205860aa
Digital Metadata: EML File


IMUD

Indian Myxomycetes Database

Contacts: Kiran Ranadive, ranadive.kiran@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bd9fd533-7c91-4bd4-a23c-8cb66156e6d5
Digital Metadata: EML File


IRFD

Indian Rust Fungal Database

Contacts: Kiran Ranadive, ranadive.kiran@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0f61660b-fd33-4a9c-9770-af13d93b76da
Digital Metadata: EML File


IND

Indiana University

Contacts: Eric Knox, eknox@indiana.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 77f58e89-bce8-4f7e-8784-4785b5a54882
Digital Metadata: EML File


TAAM & EAA

Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the Estonian University of Life Sciences (TAAM) & Estonian University of Life Sciences (EAA)

Until 2009, TAAM was formally an integral part of the herbarium TAA, but actually an almost independent collection. About one third of the collection is regional (Estonian), most specimens have been collected during field trips in Russia (incl. Siberia and Far East), Middle Asian and Caucasian republics. Many collections of Hymenomycetes and Discomycetes. Partly databased (as a part of the Estonian joint database of fungal collections and literature data maintained in and continued by the Museum of Natural History of the Tartu University). EAA is fully databased. Part of the Estonian national fungal collections: Dried specimens of mushrooms and lichens are stored in four main collections in Estonia, the largest collections of which are located in Tartu (University of Tartu and Estonian University of Life Sciences) and the smaller ones in Tallinn (Tallinn Botanical Garden and Estonian Museum of Natural History). In total, about 600,000 dried specimens are stored in mushroom collections. Most of the materials kept in mushroom collections have been collected from Estonia, but a large part of the materials brought from the territory of the former USSR also form a large part. Nowadays, scientists have brought mushroom lichens from all continents. The collection of live fungal cultures consists of fungi that are grown on agar medium and kept alive under controlled conditions.

Contacts: Kadri Pärtel, kadri.partel@emu.ee
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 November 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


INEP-F

Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

There are three collections in the herbarium. The main collection contains vascular plants (1500 specimens), fungi (1600 specimens), lichens (500 specimens) and bryophytes (1320 specimens) from the Murmansk Region and other northern regions. Additionally, the Museum of Bacteria, Algae and Microfungi of the Kola Peninsula includes strains of bacteria (37), algae (200) and microfungi (395) isolated from soils (virgin and polluted by industrial emissions of the «Severonikel» and the «Pechenganikel» enterprises, of the aluminium plant, oil-contaminated), air and anthropogenically altered environment (apatite-nepheline ore, nepheline sands, circulating water of mining plant and others) of Kola Peninsula. Another special collection, Diatoms of the Euro-Arctic Region, includes specimens of diatom complexes from the sediments and biotopes from polytypic ancient and modern water bodies, periphyton and plankton of Euro-Arctic Region: Kola Peninsula (Imandra Lake, River Paz system, mountain lakes and rivers of Khibiny and Chuna-tundra massifs and others), Arkhangelsk region (River Pechora basin), lakes and streams of Novaya Zemlya Island, Svalbard archipelago, Barents, Norwegian, Greenland and Laptev’s Seas. This collection, founded in 1993, contains 150 different specimens (about 3700 slides). First volume of the Fungi Exsiccates from Murmansk Region issued in 2016. The present fascicule includes labels of 15 species: Amylostereum chailletii, Asterodon ferruginosus, Ceraceomyces serpens, Cerioporus mollis, Ceriporiopsis mucida, Clavaria fragilis, Laurilia sulcata, Laxitextum bicolor, Ramariopsis subtilis, Oxyporus populinus, Phellinus laevigatus, Sistotrema confluens, Skeletocutis stellae, Veluticeps abietina, Xanthoporus syringae.
Contacts: Maria Korneykova, Curator of the Museum of Bacteria and Microfungi of the Kola Peninsula, korneykova@inep.ksc.ru
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


PACA

Instituto Anchietano de Pesquisas/UNISINOS

The Rickiani fungi collection has about 12,000 specimens, it is considered one of the largest fungi collections in Brazil and Latin America. In it are found specimens from all over the world, as Johannes Rick exchanged material with the five continents. Most are from Rio Grande do Sul.
Curator: Maria Selete Marchioretto, saletemarchioretto@gmail.com, [55] 051 3590 84 09 ext.1196 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-9405-1428)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


USU-UTC

Intermountain Herbarium (fungi, not lichens), Utah State University

The geographic focus of the Intermountain Herbarium is the area between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. The fungal collection includes both macrofungi and plant pathogens. Most of the macrofungi are from northern Utah. Dr. Bradley R. Kropp is Curator emeritus of Fungi. 

Contacts: Kris Valles, kristian.valles@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4c1d61ad-d84b-4f0b-b50d-7c1376bcfed6
Digital Metadata: EML File


ICMP

International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants

Specialty: Fungi of New Zealand and islands of southern Pacific. Date Founded: 1936.
Contacts: Bevan Weir, WeirB@landcareresearch.co.nz
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


ISC

Iowa State University, Ada Hayden Herbarium

Charles Bessey, the founder of the Ada Hayden Herbarium, and his student J. C. Arthur added the earliest fungal specimens to the herbarium's holdings. L. H. Pammel and his students, including George W. Carver, continued to build the mycological collection. Irving E. Melhus was hired as Iowa State's first plant pathologist, and Joseph C. Gilman soon joined Melhus as a mycologist and plant pathologist. Lois H. Tiffany succeeded Drs. Melhus and Gilman as ISC’s mycologist. The prestigious University of Iowa Mycological Herbarium was transferred to ISC in 1984. This collection contains the specimens of George Martin, Thomas H. Macbride, and A. P. Morgan, and is rich in type specimens. Currently the mycological collection contains an estimated 56,000 packeted and boxed specimens.
Contacts: Deborah Lewis, dlewis@iastate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f25dc2ec-d71d-4014-abb2-c3b64af25d79
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Iowa State University


SUCO

Jewell and Arline Moss Settle Herbarium at SUNY Oneonta

The Jewell and Arline Moss Settle Herbarium is a small regional herbarium containing approximately 15,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, and algae. The majority of its holdings are from central New York and Adirondack Park. Functioning primarily as a teaching herbarium, it also contains vouchers for New York State county floras and supports molecular and ecological research on plants of New York State.
Contacts: Sean C. Robinson, sean.robinson@oneonta.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b8c321fb-c2ba-4e63-9d12-5dc9ae07961c
Digital Metadata: EML File


LIMC

Long Island Mycological Club

This list represents the species of macrofungi collected and documented by members of the Long Island Mycological Club since its inception in 1973, mostly in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, although Queens county (part of NYC but geographically Long Island) is also represented. While the habitat is primarily coastal lowland of several types, it is geologically young having been formed by glacial deposition and retreat about 14,000 years ago. Some flora of the southeastern Piedmont and Coastal Plain reach their northern limit in this ecoregion, and that appears true of some macrofungi as well. The Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens region comprises over 100,000 acres of protected oak-pine forests with a mild maritime climate that permits fungal collecting into December. Some of the unique ecological features that distinguish this ecoregion from mainland ecoregions include its stunted pine and oak forests, numerous kettle ponds, and unique habitats in salt and freshwater marshes, swamps, bogs, and sand dunes.
Contacts: Joel Horman, jlhorman@optonline.net
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 July 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File


LSUM-Fungi

Louisiana State University, Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium

Louisiana State University Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium (LSUM) was founded in 1954 and houses ca. 20,000 higher fungi from tropical America and U.S.A.
Contacts: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager, jkluse@lsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8f3d5b53-acea-4e2a-89de-0162fd1ffadb
Digital Metadata: EML File


N/A

Malta Mycological Association

Contacts: Marica Lewis, aciram9@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 75f3a554-1f72-4849-bcfe-1d806284a2ee
Digital Metadata: EML File

Marshall University Herbarium - Fungi

MUHW has a dry collection of fungi, aprox. 1000 specimens.

Curator: Pamela Puppo, puppo@marshall.edu, 304-696-5145 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-5038-0238)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3f1e14b2-3662-4679-bdd1-b2da57f9341a
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


BR

Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium

Meise Botanic Garden (MeiseBG) has a history that goes back to 1796. Today, it is an internationally recognized botanic garden in a park of 92 hectares, and a centre of excellence for plant biodiversity research. MeiseBG houses the 15th largest herbarium in the world, holding 4 million preserved specimens, a comprehensive botanical library, a seed bank and a living plant collection with 25,000 accessions of plants from around the world. Research focuses on plant, algal and fungal taxonomy, evolution, biodiversity conservation, ecosystems and ethnobotany. The preserved collections (including the herbarium, wood, carpological, slide and molecular collections) have a global scope, with a focus on Central Africa, Belgium, and Southwestern Europe, with additionally important historic collections from Latin America. Highlights are the private collections of famous 19th botanists such as Henri Van Heurck (diatoms), Carl Von Martius (Flora brasiliensis), Heinrich Gustav von Reichenbach (orchids) and Crépin (wild roses), which form the historic core of the collections. A wide range of taxonomic groups are covered including: vascular plants, lichens, mosses, liverworts, fungi, myxomycetes, macroalgae, and diatoms. Meise Botanic Garden is dedicated to digitally unlock these precious and unique botanical collections.
Head of the Herbarium: Ann Bogaerts, ann.bogaerts@botanicgardenmeise.be, [32] 2 260 09 57 (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3435-2605)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MU

Miami University, Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium

The Miami University Herbarium houses approximately 675,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, lichens, fungi, and fossil plant specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with a focus on North America, Ohio, and the Caribbean, with material dating back to the 1790’s. Major fungal collectors include F.W. Anderson, W.B. Cooke, J.B. Ellis, B.M. Everhart, B. Fink, F.O. Grover, F.D. Kelsey, M.L. Lohman, W.A. Murrill, L.O. Overholts, and L.E. Wehmeyer.
Curator: Gretchen Meier, meierga@miamioh.edu, (513) 529-2755
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 27151aff-a2aa-428a-8572-8f12c8f9feca
Digital Metadata: EML File


MSC

Michigan State University Herbarium non-lichenized fungi

The MSU Herbarium was founded in 1863 with the donation of a large collection of plants from Michigan and the eastern U.S. Today, we remain focused on plant and fungal diversity from Michigan, but the collection is also rich in plants from Mexico and southeast Asia, and lichens from the Caribbean and the subantarctic region. With over half a million specimens, the MSU Herbarium is among the 50 largest herbaria in the United States.
Contacts: L. Alan Prather, alan@msu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9f240f3c-0ebe-463a-b610-4fa9beea74b7
Digital Metadata: EML File


MOR

Morton Arboretum

The Morton Arboretum Herbarium's Fungus Collection includes a variety of taxa of over 500 specimens, largely collected by R. Wason and S. Lee. The collection consists of specimens mostly from The Morton Arboretum grounds, with a few specimens in the Chicagoland area.
Contacts: Andrew Hipp, ahipp@mortonarb.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-1241-9904)
Contacts: Marlene Hahn, mhahn@mortonarg.org (ORCID #: 0000-0003-2941-9174)
Contacts: Lindsey Worcester, lworcester@mortonarb.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-2960-5703)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0c88cefb-c549-4781-a611-d3df51c31c35
Digital Metadata: EML File

Museo Botánico Córdoba Fungarium

La colección de Hongos y Briófitas del Herbario CORD contiene alrededor de 50.000 ejemplares de los siguientes grupos de organismos. ALGAS (Chloroplastida, Rhodophyceae, Stramenopiles, Xanthophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Diatomea, Euglenozoa), HONGOS (Fungi), HEPATICAS (Embryophyta), ANTOCEROS (Embryophyta), MUSGOS (Embryophyta), MIXOMICETES (Myxogastria,Ceratomyxa) y OOMICETES (Peronosporomycetes). Algunas de estas colecciones datan del siglo XIX, esta colección histórica tiene gran cantidad de ejemplares (ca. 35000). Esto convierte a esta colección en una de las mayores de su tipo en el País en cuanto a cantidad de ejemplares.
Fungi, Mosses and Lichens: Alejandro Bringas, alebringas@imbiv.unc.edu.ar
Curator of Fungi and Bryophytes: Francisco Kuhar, fkuhar@gmail.com (ORCID #: 0000-0003-4482-4231)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 480a83cd-20a7-4a26-8a5e-57113bd46b14
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Museo Botánico de Cordoba. IMBIV-CONICET-UNC


CR

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, observation-based

Founded in 1887. The former INB collections are still housed in the same building in Santo Domingo de Heredia where they have been for the last few years (see INB for the exact location), but are now administered by the Museo Nacional. Specimens from INB should now be cited as CR. A database and type photographs are available here: http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/especimenes/Buscador.aspx
Contacts: Armando Estrada, director, aestrada@museocostarica.go.cr
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 December 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


CR

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, specimen-based

Founded in 1887. The former INB collections are still housed in the same building in Santo Domingo de Heredia where they have been for the last few years (see INB for the exact location), but are now administered by the Museo Nacional. Specimens from INB should now be cited as CR. A database and type photographs are available here: http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/especimenes/Buscador.aspx [It seems that only more recent specimens from 1991-present have been databased and are included here]
Contacts: Armando Estrada, director, aestrada@museocostarica.go.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


PC

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

The herbarium of the museum, referred to by code PC, includes a large number of important collections amongst its 2 000 000 cryptogams (algae, bryophyta, fungi and lichens) specimens. These collections are constitued by a general herbarium and numerous particular collections. Among these last, Allorge, Bescherelle, Bourdot & Galzin, Heim, Hue, Montagne, Romagnesi, Sauvageau, Thuret & Bornet herbaria.
Curator: Bart Buyck, buyck@mnhn.fr, [33] 1 40 79 31 86
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 June 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MNA

Museum of Northern Arizona

The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) is a private, non-profit, member-based institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona at the base of the beautiful San Francisco Peaks. The Museum was founded in 1928 by Harold S. Colton and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton and was originally established to protect and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of northern Arizona through research, collections, conservation and education. MNA's mission to inspire a sense of love and responsibility for the beauty and diversity of the Colorado Plateau through collecting, studying, interpreting, and preserving the region’s natural and cultural heritage. Located in the Easton Collection Center on MNA’s Research Campus, the McDougall Herbarium focuses on plant and fungi collections from the Colorado Plateau. It contains examples of most of the flora of northern Arizona and is particularly strong in plants of the Grand Canyon region.
Contacts: Kirstin Olmon Phillips, kphillips@musnaz.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4ea87621-512f-46de-b814-aaa827eeeb59
Digital Metadata: EML File


MUOB

Mushroom Observer

The purpose of Mushroom Observer is to record observations about mushrooms, help people identify mushrooms they aren’t familiar with, and expand the community around the scientific exploration of mushrooms (mycology). Some have asked what counts as a mushroom. This site takes a very broad view. While the emphasis is on the large fleshy fungi, other fungi such as lichens, rust and molds as well as fungus-like organisms such as slime-molds are all welcome. Ultimately, I hope this site will become a valuable resource for both amateur and professional mycologists. I like to think of it as a living field guide for mushrooms or a collaborative mushroom field journal.
Contacts: Nathan Wilson, webmaster@mushroomobserver.org
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 July 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: MO Observers


NAMP-NYMS

NAMP - New York Mycological Society: Macrofungi of New York City, New York

This record is a continuation of a long-term project on the part of the New York Mycological Society to record the fungi of New York City. The New York Mycological Society visits parks in the five boroughs of New York City year-round and has recorded over 1,000 species.
Contacts: Sigrid Jakob, sigridjakob@gmail.com
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 371e140a-9b98-478a-8fa3-8a07160c3830
Digital Metadata: EML File


IBUNAM-MEXU:FU

National Herbarium of Mexico Fungal Collection (Hongos del Herbario Nacional de México)

With more than 1.3 million specimens, the National Herbarium of Mexico (MEXU) houses the most important collection of Mexican plants. It is the largest herbarium in Mexico and Latin America, and is one of the ten most active herbaria in the world. This collection is the cumulative work of many generations of both Mexican and foreign botanists and explorers, having been created in the late 19th century with the founding of the National Medical Institute in 1888, and tasked with consolidating knowledge about natural resources. It was acquired by the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1929 through the Biology Institute (Instituto de Biologia, IB). The fungal collection was started in 1947 by Drs. Manuel Ruíz-Oronoz and Teófilo Herrera. It currently contains more than 22,000 specimens, representing about 400 genera and 1,500 species of basidiomycetes, ascomycetes and myxomycetes, organized taxonomically. In addition to Mexico City, the states of Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca, Sonora and Veracruz are especially well represented, with an emphasis on specimens collected in temperate forests, high-altitude perennial forests, and low deciduous forest. The fungarium is strong in collections by Manuel Ruíz-Oronoz, Teófilo Herrera, Evangelina Pérez-Silva and Rafael Hernández. It also includes a collection of phytopathogens, started by Dr. Martha Zenteno in 1958. It comprises over 2,000 specimens from over 300 species of fungi.
Contacts: M. en C. Elvira Aguirre-Acosta, Curator, caguirre@ib.unam.mx
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 March 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


TNS-F

National Museum of Nature and Science - Japan

Established in July 2006, the Collection Center collects and carefully stores specimens and materials that illuminate the study of natural history and the history of science and technology. The Center is a vibrant hub of research and academic activities. Formerly the National Museum of Nature and Science held a large assortment of specimen collections, but these were scattered and separately managed among various departments, preventing the systematic collection, management and use of specimens from an overarching perspective. With the establishment of a single collection, the Museum was able to ensure the centralized management of specimens. Over 76,000 fungal specimens are deposited at the Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science.

Contacts: Masanobu Higuchi, higuchi@kahaku.go.jp
Curator of Fungi: Kentaro Hosaka, khosaka@kahaku.go.jp (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4469-8303)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e34568e9-7551-4830-a5a8-f5339780f3a5
Digital Metadata: EML File


NMC-FUNGI

National Mushroom Centre

The National Mushroom Center (NMC) has developed extensive experience in production and marketing of edible and medicinal mushrooms. The National Mushroom Centre (NMC) is based in Wanchutaba, Thimphu. The Centre staff report directly to the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture. One of the primary activities of the Centre is to develop the National Fungi Herbarium from collecting wild mushrooms, identifying the specimens and drying the fungi specimens for preservation in the herbarium. Currently, more than 850 fungi specimens including poisonous, edible, and medicinal fungi have been collected. Specimen data is databased and specimens are digitally imaged with data published in a publicly available specimen data portal. The herbarium collection is being expanded through additional field expeditions and collecting throughout Bhutan.
Program Director: Dawa Penjor, dawa63@gmail.com
Contacts: Sabitra Pradhan, sabitrap2008@gmail.com
Homepage: www.moaf.gov.bt
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 July 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: National Mushroom Centre, Royal Government of Bhutan


UT-M

Natural History Museum of Utah Fungarium

Contacts: Bryn Dentinger, bryn.dentinger@utah.edu
Collections Manager: Allison Izaksonas, aizaksonas@nhmu.utah.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 November 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


L

Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Partial upload of ~66,000 fungal records with another ~200,000 to digitize.
Collections Manager: Marnel Scherrenberg, botaniecollectie@naturalis.nl, [31] 71 7519600 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-1142-3354)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 16 November 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


NBM

New Brunswick Museum

The New Brunswick Museum herbarium houses about 115,000 specimens documenting the diversity, distributions, and habitats of plants and fungi in New Brunswick and other areas of eastern Canada. It is an active regional resource for research, education, and biodiversity conservation. It incorporates the 19th century collections of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, including much of the material on which the first published catalogue (1879) of the provincial vascular flora was based. In recent decades, the NBM collections of bryophytes, lichens, and fungi have grown considerably; they include international material and exsiccatae. The cryptogams now represent more than two-thirds of the overall holdings of the herbarium.
Contacts: Alfredo Justo, Ph.D., Curator of Botany & Mycology, Alfredo.Justo@nbm-mnb.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 February 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File


NY

New York Botanical Garden

The National Science Foundation has announced a new grant to provide funding for a nationwide, publicly accessible database of mushrooms and related fungi. Including mushrooms, porcini, puffballs, club fungi, conks, morels, stinkhorns, truffles and cup fungi, these organisms play a critical role in the lives of plants and animals, including humans. Some are gastronomical delights, others are deadly poisonous, and all serve as nature’s recyclers, returning nutrients to the soil through decomposition. Scientists in the U.S. have been studying macrofungi for the past 150 years, resulting in a legacy of approximately 1.4 million dried scientific specimens conserved in 35 institutions in 24 states. Through this project, led by Drs. Barbara M. Thiers and Roy E. Halling of The New York Botanical Garden, these treasures will be virtually liberated from their museum cabinets and shared on-line through the Mycology Collections Portal and through many other on-line collections databases such as The Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. The database created by this project will enable a national census of these critically important organisms, and allow researchers to better understand the relationship between macrofungi and other organisms.
Contacts: Laura Briscoe, lbriscoe@nybg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 February 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


NYS

New York State Museum Mycology Collection

The fungus collection at the New York State Museum in Albany was initiated by Charles Peck from 1868 to 1913 during which time he amassed 33,600 mycological specimens. In the years following, the next State Botanist, Homer House, and other mycologists added to this number. The collection now contains more than 90,000 specimens. However, the importance of the collection is not in the number of specimens it contains, but, rather, in the type specimens of American fungi collected during the early years of American mycology. It is especially rich in Agarics and other larger fungi. Some of the other collectors represented in the herbarium of the New York State Museum are G. F. Atkinson, M. E. Banning, E. Bartholomew, M. J. Berkeley, E. A. Burt, G. W. Clinton, M. C. Cooke, M. A. Curtis, J. Dearness, J. B. Ellis, W. R. Gerard, E. C. Howe, J. H. Haines, H. W. Harkness, E. W. D. Holway, C. H. Kauffman, W. A. Murrill, P. A. Saccardo, S. J. Smith, and C. J. Sprague. In addition to specimens, the Museum holds numerous original drawings and paintings of fungi by Charles Peck, Mary Banning, and others plus an extensive file of correspondence covering the formative years of American mycology. Non-type specimens are available on loan to recognized scientific institutions for taxonomic research. Requests for samples of type specimens for genetic and morphological analyses are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Contacts: Diana Murphy, Diana.Murphy@nysed.gov
Curator of Mycology: Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian Kaishian, patricia.kaishian@nysed.gov, 518-486-4872
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 June 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: New York State Museum


PDD

New Zealand Fungarium

Specialty: Fungi of New Zealand and islands of southern Pacific. Date Founded: 1936.
Contacts: Mahajabeen Padamsee, padamseem@landcareresearch.co.nz
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


NCSLG

North Carolina State University, Larry F. Grand Mycological Herbarium

The Dr. Larry F. Grand Mycological Herbarium at North Carolina State University is housed in the Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University. The collection of fungi currently housed in the herbarium are taxonomically diverse and contains specimens from different ecological habitats largely from North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. This collection was established in 1970 and is composed primarily of wood decay (~2900 specimens) and plant pathogenic fungi (~3600 specimens), particularly those associated with species of woody plants found in forest ecosystems. The remaining specimens in the collection consist of mushrooms, jelly, rust, and smut fungi that are represented by approximately 2400 specimens.
Contacts: Marc A Cubeta, macubeta@ncsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 September 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


OSC

Oregon State University Herbarium

The Oregon State University Herbarium houses approximately 405,000 vascular plant, bryophyte, algal, and fungal specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with a focus on the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
Contacts: Joey Spatafora, spatafoj@science.oregonstate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8eba92a3-205f-4486-9116-09742e1c5550
Digital Metadata: EML File


USFWS-PRR

Patuxent Research Refuge - Maryland

Established in 1936 by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Patuxent Research Refuge is the nation's only national wildlife refuge established to support wildlife research. It is located between Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. At the time of the Refuge's establishment in 1936, botanist Neil Hotchkiss and other scientists surveyed the flora on the 2,650 acres which made up the Refuge. Lists of plants found on the Refuge were published in 1940 and 1947. The latter list tabulated 877 plant taxa. Voucher specimens were collected and deposited in the Refuge's herbarium. By 1980, when the refuge expanded to 4,741 acres, a total of 969 plant taxa were listed. In the early 1990's as part of the Base Re-alignment and Closure (BRAC) process, the Department of Defense transferred about 8,100 acres of land from Fort Meade to the Department of Interior, with control of the land given to the Fish and Wildlife Service. The addition of this parcel, now known as the North Tract, brought the total acreage of the Refuge to over 12,800 acres. A floral survey of the North Tract began in 2010 and a re-survey of the older parcel of the Refuge, known as the Central and South Tracts, was initiated in 2013. As of October 2018, the herbarium holds over 5,000 voucher specimens from over 1,250 taxa found on the Refuge. This includes a number of Maryland rare, threatened, and endangered (RTE) species and at least five species new to Maryland. A number of duplicate and unique voucher specimens are held by other herbaria. With the collaboration of the Mid-Atlantic Herbarium and the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of Maryland, the herbarium is digitizing its voucher specimens collection. Recently, the herbarium has added lichens to its collection. Please feel free to peruse the herbarium's data, but use it with caution as we are still tweaking things. For more information please contact Bill at the email address below.
Contacts: Bill Harms, botanybill@verizon.net
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5e06f896-04e9-4116-93e5-d41a776621d3
Digital Metadata: EML File


PNW

Purdue University Northwest Mycology

Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b052ed6d-6ae3-44c7-8863-941ee45fe941
Digital Metadata: EML File


PUR

Purdue University, Arthur Fungarium

The Arthur Fungarium comprises approximately 120,000 specimens of plant rust fungi. The Fungarium was established in 1​887 by Dr. Joseph C. Arthur​, a pioneer American plant pathologist and mycologist. The Fungarium is housed within the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University and has been considered the most important collection of plant rust fungi in the world collected from a across a broad geographic distribution and historical time line.
Director: Dr. M. Catherine Aime, maime@purdue.edu
Curator of Fungi: Dr. D. Rabern Simmons, simmondr@purdue.edu, 765-494-4623
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 December 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File


PUL

Purdue University, Kriebel Herbarium

The Kriebel Herbarium comprises approximately 90,000 specimens of vascular plants, algae, bryophytes, lichens and fungi. The vascular plant collection is the oldest in the state of Indiana, originating with John Hussey (1831–1888), Botany Professor and one of the six professors hired to teach the first time Purdue opened its doors in 1874. The Herbarium itself is named in honor of Ralph M. Kriebel (1897–1946), a botanist who joined Purdue in 1943 and whose collection contains in excess of 10,000 specimens of important Indian​a flora. Today’s Kriebel Herbarium consolidates these as well as other collections formerly housed in the Department of Biological Sciences, the Stanley Coulter Herbarium, and the Herbarium of the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, and is managed by the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology.
Director: Dr. M. Catherine Aime, maime@purdue.edu
Curator of Fungi: Dr. D. Rabern Simmons, simmondr@purdue.edu, 765-494-4623
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File


QFB

René Pomerleau Herbarium

Contacts: Josyanne Lamarche, Josyanne.Lamarche@canada.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 December 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


E

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Contacts: David Harris, Curator, herbarium@rbge.org.uk
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


TRTC

Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium

TRTC holds an estimated half a million fungal collections and about 1,000 type specimens, making it one of the most significant fungal depository in North America. Its holding is richest in Eastern Canadian material but has a worldwide representation. The processing of databasing the specimens is ongoing.
Collection Manager: Simona Margaritescu, trtcfungarium@gmail.com (ORCID #: 0000-0001-5560-8847)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


TAES

S.M. Tracy Herbarium Texas A&M University

Taxonomic Coverage: Poaceae, Cyperaceae, and Juncaceae worldwide; bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the southern US Geography: Primarily Texas, the southern U.S., and Mexico
Curator: Dale Kruse, dakruse@tamu.edu, [1] 979 845 4328
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6fac8309-1b8b-473d-883f-4dc6cde0667a
Digital Metadata: EML File


SFSU

San Francisco State University, Harry D. Thiers Herbarium

The primary research focus of the Harry D. Thiers Herbarium is mycology. Most of the early collections were made by Harry Thiers and his students, and later by Dennis Desjardin and his students. Specialties include fleshy fungi of North America, Hawai'i, Indonesia, and southeast Asia; California lichens, bryophytes, and flowering plants, with an exceptionally large collection of Arctostaphylos. The herbarium was established in 1959 as the SFSU Herbarium, and was renamed the HDT Herbarium following Harry's retirement in 1989.
Contacts: Dennis Desjardin, ded@sfsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6d7928b7-550a-4842-9194-317610d85e74
Digital Metadata: EML File


SBBG

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

The mycological collection at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden comprises a small but growing set of specimens focused on representing the diversity of macrofungi from the California Channel Islands. This collection complements the lichen (53,000 specimens), bryophyte (731 specimens), and vascular plant (160,000 specimens) holdings at the Garden, which are among the world's best representations of the plant biodiversity of California's Channel Islands, as well as the broader Central Coast region.

Contacts: Matt Guilliams, mguilliams@sbbg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b11da20b-3dc5-4323-a709-099162c7bb34
Digital Metadata: EML File


LJF

Slovenian Fungal Database (Mikoteka in herbarij Gozdarskega inštituta Slovenije), observation-based

This resource contains records from Slovenian Fungal Database - Boletus informaticus, published March 31st, 2008. It represents the collected data on the species and distribution of fungi in Slovenia from the archives of the Mycological Association of Slovenia, the personal archives of its members, as well as, in part, from existing collections and literature sources. A computer program for inputting data on fungi in Slovenia is called Boletus informaticus. The program is aimed at systematically recording species of fungi, their distribution, and data regarding their habitat. In addition, the program allows for various ways of processing materials, various means of data retrieval, and cartographical presentations of finds. When the related 2005 monograph was published (Dušan Jurc, Andrej Piltaver, Nikica Ogris. 2005. Fungi of Slovenia: species and distribution. Studia forestalia Slovenica, 124, Ljubljana, Slovenian Forestry Institute: 497 p.), there were 114,620 records that describe distribution of 2,452 species of fungi in Slovenia. On March 31st, 2008, the BI database had 160,757 records. These records give distribution to 2763 fungi species. All mentioned records are published here.
Contacts: Dr. Nikica Ogris (Curator, Database Administrator) ; Prof. Dr. Dušan Jurc (Professor, Curator for Ascomycetes), nikica.ogris@gozdis.si ; dusan.jurc@gozdis.si
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 February 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


LJF

Slovenian Fungal Database (Mikoteka in herbarij Gozdarskega inštituta Slovenije), specimen-based

This resource contains records from Slovenian Fungal Database - Boletus informaticus, published March 31st, 2008. It represents the collected data on the species and distribution of fungi in Slovenia from the archives of the Mycological Association of Slovenia, the personal archives of its members, as well as, in part, from existing collections and literature sources. A computer program for inputting data on fungi in Slovenia is called Boletus informaticus. The program is aimed at systematically recording species of fungi, their distribution, and data regarding their habitat. In addition, the program allows for various ways of processing materials, various means of data retrieval, and cartographical presentations of finds. When the related 2005 monograph was published (Dušan Jurc, Andrej Piltaver, Nikica Ogris. 2005. Fungi of Slovenia: species and distribution. Studia forestalia Slovenica, 124, Ljubljana, Slovenian Forestry Institute: 497 p.), there were 114,620 records that describe distribution of 2,452 species of fungi in Slovenia. On March 31st, 2008, the BI database had 160,757 records. These records give distribution to 2763 fungi species. All mentioned records are published here.
Contacts: Dr. Nikica Ogris (Curator, Database Administrator) ; Prof. Dr. Dušan Jurc (Professor, Curator for Ascomycetes), nikica.ogris@gozdis.si ; dusan.jurc@gozdis.si
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


CORT

State University of New York College at Cortland

The Herbarium of the State University of New York College at Cortland (CORT) has about 24,000 collections, half of which are macrofungi. Plant collections date back to 1890 with the main holdings accessioned by Dr. Eugene C. Waldbauer and his students in the late 1960’s to late 1990’s. Macrofungal collections were first accessioned in 1980 by Dr. Timothy J. Baroni and his students and continue to be the bulk of the newly added collections to the herbarium. Macrofungi (Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes) of Upstate New York, and especially the Adirondack Park, are well represented, with collections also from the Southeastern United States, the Gulf Coastal States and California. Collections from Europe (mainly from the Alps), the Greater and Lesser Antilles (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, St. John USVI, Trinidad), Central America (Belize and Costa Rica), South America (Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela), Mexico and to a lesser extent Thailand and Tasmania are also important components of the research materials curated at Cortland.
Contacts: Tim Baroni, Tim.Baroni@cortland.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 August 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


SYRF

State University of New York, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Herbarium

The fungal collections of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry of the State University of New York emphasize wood decay fungi and fungi of the northeastern U.S. There are about 15,000 specimens pertinent to this project, including vouchers for the studies of Josiah Lowe (1938-1993) and his students (including Robert L. Gilbertson and M. J. Larsen). Based on these collections over 75 systematic papers were published (e.g. Lowe, 1963, 1975; Larsen, 1968). SYRF specimens have not yet been digitized, but the data generated by this project, will be maintained by SYRF using appropriate software. This project will not only create an electronic version of the data stored in the herbarium, but also affords the opportunity for an advanced undergraduate student or graduate student to learn digitization techniques.
Contacts: Alexander Weir, aweir@esf.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f9d2e3a0-7396-41d7-ab74-e9bab47de676
Digital Metadata: EML File


SWAT

Swat University Fungarium

The Swat University Herbarium was started in 2015, five years after the foundation of the University. It is currently in temporary housing on the main Grand Trunk Rd through Odigram but will move to its own building at the Charbagh Campus when construction has been completed. Swat lies at the junction of three major mountain ranges: Himalayas, Hindukush, and Karakorum. It is home to an enormously diverse flora, one that contains Central Asian, European, and Himalayan elements. A high proportion of its taxa are endemic, or nearly endemic, to the region and many of its species are rare. There are also many taxa that are highly valued as medicinal plants. The fungal flora is less well known but it can be expected to have comparable diversity. The Centre for Plant Sciences and Biodiversity Conservation is home to experts in several plant groups and macrofungi.
Contacts: Dr. Zahid Ullah, zahidmatta@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a354c62f-d8f9-47a9-a775-c3b76c5cafec
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Swat


S

Swedish Museum of Natural History

This collection contains about 32 000 species and 370 000 specimens. Important collections: G. Bresadola E. Rehm P. and H. Sydow (before 1919) P. Hennings L. Romell P. Dietel
Contacts: Arne Anderberg, Director of Botany, arne.anderberg@nrm.se
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


TALL

Tallinn Botanic Garden

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, and micromycetes mainly from Boreal Kingdom. Geography: Estonia, Europe, Siberia, Russian Far East, Middle Asia, and Caucasus. Part of the Estonian national fungal collections: Dried specimens of mushrooms and lichens are stored in four main collections in Estonia, the largest collections of which are located in Tartu (University of Tartu and Estonian University of Life Sciences) and the smaller ones in Tallinn (Tallinn Botanical Garden and Estonian Museum of Natural History). In total, about 600,000 dried specimens are stored in mushroom collections. Most of the materials kept in mushroom collections have been collected from Estonia, but a large part of the materials brought from the territory of the former USSR also form a large part. Nowadays, scientists have brought mushroom lichens from all continents. The collection of live fungal cultures consists of fungi that are grown on agar medium and kept alive under controlled conditions.
Contacts: Leida Ojasoo, Merlyn Pajur, leida.ojasoo@botaanikaaed.ee
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 November 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File


IBUG

Universidad de Guadalajara

[NOTE: IBUG does not have herbarium numbers; the Catalog Number for IBUG is just a series of numbers starting at 1 used to number the specimen records.]
Contacts: Laura Guzmán Dávalos, lguzman@cucba.udg.mx
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4df63b59-5a8f-4a0a-9654-402af5946a21
Digital Metadata: EML File


CMMF

Université de Montréal, Cercle des Mycologues de Montréal Fungarium

The Cercle des mycologues de Montréal Fungarium is a relatively recent collection, founded in 1988. The collection holds fungi collected by Yves Lamoureux, scientific advisor of the Cercle des mycologues de Montréal (CMM - http://www.mycomontreal.qc.ca/) over a twenty years period, and by members of the CMM and other amateur mycological societies. It includes more than 5000 dried specimens of macrofungi (Fungi) and some slime molds (Amoebozoa, formerly Myxomycetes) of Quebec and neighbouring provinces/states, representing about 2000 species. Almost all specimens were photographed before drying.
Contacts: Raymond Archambault, Curator, raymond.archambault@gmail.com
Curator of Mycology: Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, etienne.leveille-bourret@umontreal.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UACCC

University of Alabama Chytrid Culture Collection

Contacts: Martha Powell & Peter Letcher, mpowell@ua.edu; letch006@ua.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b09eb981-50eb-4f19-bfa8-b70196852af7
Digital Metadata: EML File


ARIZ

University of Arizona, Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium, observation-based

The Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium at the University of Arizona houses over 40,000 accessioned specimens of fungi and fungus-like organisms, with special collections of rusts, polypores, and corticioid fungi. Our holdings are global in origin, with special attention to the macrofungi of Arizona.
Contacts: A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, arnold@ag.arizona.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 21ddb5df-b839-48b7-b6ee-e315875fc509
Digital Metadata: EML File


ARIZ

University of Arizona, Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium, specimen-based

The Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium at the University of Arizona houses over 40,000 accessioned specimens of fungi and fungus-like organisms, with special collections of rusts, polypores, and corticioid fungi. Our holdings are global in origin, with special attention to the macrofungi of Arizona.
Contacts: A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, arnold@ag.arizona.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: eac471ae-8567-413e-9d11-5df79955dbe7
Digital Metadata: EML File


UARK

University of Arkansas Fungarium

Contacts: Steve Stephenson, slsteph@uark.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c9d5eb7e-3552-4665-ab69-11e1357488b4
Digital Metadata: EML File


UBC-Obs

University of British Columbia Cortinarius updates

UBC Cortinarius, observational dataset, updates for ~600 specimens by Emma Harrower. The specimen vouchers are in UBC and in MycoPortal. This project involves updating their taxonomy and nomenclature to reflect recent progress in systematics.

Data management: Mary Berbee, mary.berbee@gmail.com, 604 822-3780 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-9850-1174)
Beaty Museum Director: Quentin Cronk, quentin.cronk@ubc.ca (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4027-7368)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ddd12699-93df-4a9e-849e-27fb41a98409
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Beaty Museum, University of British Columbia


UBC

University of British Columbia Herbarium

The University of British Columbia Herbarium is the largest in Canada west of Ottawa, and is home to over half a million plant specimens from around the world. This collection is critical to the identification, monitoring, and conservation of plant biodiversity in British Columbia, and is an important resource for education and scientific research. The UBC Herbarium has five major collections: vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns, and their relatives); bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts); macroscopic algae (mostly seaweeds); lichens; and fungi. In addition to the world's largest collection of BC plants, our internationally recognized bryophyte collection is the largest in Canada. We also have important collections of Pacific algae, fungi, Hawaiian plants and tropical prayer plants.

Collections Curator: Karen Golinski, karen.golinski@ubc.ca, 604-822-3344
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UC

University of California Berkeley, University Herbarium

Contacts: Jason Alexander, jason_alexander@berkeley.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f554e354-c444-40bf-90e9-6fcbec94da3e
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCSC

University of California Santa Cruz Fungal Herbarium

The UCSC Fungal Herbarium, hosted at the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History, is a small but powerful collection comprising hundreds of collections from the Pacific states, as well as a few from farther abroad (including the eastern United States and Mexico). Our herbarium is set apart by the high quality of photography and metadata accompanying the collections. The breadth and depth of collections from the Redwood Coast bioregion in particular makes this an excellent resource for ecologists. Contributions of funding and logistial support from the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz and ongoing work by students of the UCSC MycoTeam have made it possible to pair microscopic data, and in many cases, DNA sequences with our collections.
Contacts: Christian Schwarz, cfs.myko@gmail.com; arkrohn@ucsc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d8931266-37ec-48a6-be43-6c81a35a71da
Digital Metadata: EML File


LA

University of California, Los Angeles

Contacts: Thomas Huggins, Herbarium Manager, huggins@ucla.edu
curator of fungus collection: Rudy Diaz, rudy.diaz@ucla.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-9080-9468)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ddc70508-ea6b-45e8-bd90-cec4ebebc06d
Digital Metadata: EML File


FTU

University of Central Florida

The UCF Herbarium was founded in 1968 for the deposit, curation, and study of preserved plant and fungi specimens. Vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi and macro-algae can all be found in the collections of the UCF Herbarium. The growing collection includes over 20,000 specimens some dating back to the 1920s.
Contacts: Michael Felice, palmbeachmichael@yahoo.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3d652ee4-31e2-4c0a-971f-abb849cde7cd
Digital Metadata: EML File


CSU

University of Central Oklahoma Herbarium

The fungal collections of CSU emphasize agarics, boletes and related macrofungi mainly from Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Central and South America. There are approximately 4,000 specimens in the herbarium that are pertinent to this project, including vouchers for the studies of Clark Ovrebo and his students (e.g. please site some references). CSU also contains approximately 1000 images of specimens in the living condition, and about 1700 fieldnotes.
Contacts: Clark Ovrebo, covrebo@uco.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 56bff0cb-5002-4177-993b-85b57191869f
Digital Metadata: EML File


CINC

University of Cincinnati, Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium - Fungi

The herbarium at the University of Cincinnati was founded by Margaret Fulford in 1920s and has grown over the years through the work of prolific collectors and through acquisition of several large and important collections. Today, the herbarium houses around 125,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, and algae, making it the third largest herbarium in Ohio. In addition to the large collection of regional and North American material, it also contains extensive collections from Europe, South America, the Caribbean Basin, Samoa, and China. Particular strengths of the herbarium are North American Sphagnum, South American and Caribbean Hepatics, North American Cladonia, and Trilliaceae.
Contacts: Eric Tepe, Curator, eric.tepe@uc.edu
Collections Manager: Olivia Leek, leekoa@ucmail.uc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a999d4c6-4c06-4515-9af3-a7e63b31c0f9
Digital Metadata: EML File


C

University of Copenhagen

The database for fungi includes p.t. ca. 47.000 records from the fungal herbarium. Most of them have been obtained after 1990 and all newly received collections will be digitized. In connection with loans, research and similar purposes also older collections have been digitized, but there is not enough resources to digitize the whole herbarium. Each collection is presented with the Danish name, the Latin name, the country of origin, the locality, the collector and the person, who identified the species. Furthermore the date of collection and any notes given on the habitat is shown. A rough taxonomical guide can be searched, separating the fungi into 14 groups. Also, it is possible to search for collections from a country. When using the database it should be kept in mind that the taxonomy of the fungi is changing very rapidly these years, due to the molecular results. Therefore, the database is not necessarily reflecting the latest results and opinions on taxonomy. The base is updated regularly (1-2 times a year) and the update will also include new names. The database is constructed and maintained in dbase by Peer Corfixen. Christian Lange made the interface and adapted the search-part in Filemaker/Windows. Henning Knudsen is scientifically responsible. Notes In 2004 the Botanical Museum, the Library, the Botanical Garden, the Zoological Museum, and the Geological Museum were merged and became the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The Natural History Museum is a department of the University of Copenhagen. Museum Botanicum Hauniense = C. Herbarium C is housed in temporary premises within an hour's travel outside Copenhagen until 2020 while we build a new Natural History Museum in the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen. Please note the Danish Greenlandic collections are currently without curation, but accessible to the extent possible through our curatorial managers.
Head of Collections: Nikolaj Scharff, nscharff@snm.ku.dk (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6809-2878)
Collections Manager: Christian Lange, christianl@snm.ku.dk, 4535321013
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 May 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File


FLAS

University of Florida Herbarium

The University of Florida Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium is affiliated with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Biology and the Department of Plant Pathology. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Our mission focuses in plant collections acquisition and care, research based on the collections, education and public service.
Contacts: Matthew E. Smith, trufflesmith@ufl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a1aa8e0a-d122-4fff-96df-0a83f585a2de
Digital Metadata: EML File


GAM

University of Georgia, Julian H. Miller Mycological Herbarium

The Julian H. Miller Mycological Herbarium (GAM) is an internationally recognized collection of fungi with an estimated 30,500 specimens that is a unit of the Georgia Museum of Natural History of the University of Georgia. The herbarium collections are especially strong in plant pathogenic ascomycetes; although, the majority of specimens are from Georgia and the southeastern USA. Specimens in the collection date back to the late 1800’s, including exsiccati of J.B. Ellis and M.B. Everhart and A.B. Seymour and F. S. Earle. Other important collections are the Forest Disease Fungi acquired from the USDA Forest Service in Athens, which includes the rust collections of George Hepting and the Coleosporium collection of George Hedgcock, a large collection of Georgia myxomycetes and a collection of Georgia lichens.

Curator: D. Jean Lodge, dlodgester@gmail.com
Professor: Marin Talbot Brewer, mtbrewer@uga.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 88e7bf1d-8e3b-4ad8-9089-448537a682ac
Digital Metadata: EML File


GB

University of Gothenburg

Originally dating back to 1778 as part of a "Naturalie Cabinett" belonging to the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg. Transferred in 1833 to the Natural History Museum in Göteborg. Reorganized as Herbarium of the Göteborg Botanical Garden in 1929. Transferred to Göteborg University in 1962. The vascular plant collection is dominant and comprises about 750,000 specimens, while the other 250,000 specimens are mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and slime fungi. Among the non-vascular plant collections, the mushroom collection is the largest and comprises about 100,000 specimens. This mainly consists of base fungi from Northern Europe, a large part of which are wood-degrading crust and bracket fungi. The herbarium also has collections of Psathyrellaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Lycoperdaceae, Inocybeaceae, Russulales and Boletales. Assignments of coordinates to many localities are primarily generated through Sweden's Virtual Herbarium workflow (http://herbarium.emg.umu.se/), which includes transformations from Swedish coordinate systems as well as coordinates for centroids representing geographic or political units.
Director: Claes Persson, claes.persson@bioenv.gu.se
Curator: Ellen Larsson
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 April 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


HAW-F

University of Hawaii, Joseph F. Rock Herbarium

Founded in 1908, the Joseph F. Rock Herbarium (HAW) serves the official university repository for plant specimens associated with student, staff, and faculty teaching and research. The herbaria was created by Dr. Joseph F. Rock's original collections and is the oldest herbaria in Hawaii. It is the result of decades of plant exploration by some of the leading researchers in the Pacific basin and today its use continues to expand. The herbarium is part of the University Museum Consortium, and comprises approximately 60,000 dried preserved plant specimens including algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes, angiosperms, fungi, and ancillary collections of 35 mm slides, wood, seed, and DNA. For more than 100 years, the herbarium has been a focal point for teaching, training, and education on the flora of Hawai'i and the Pacific with particular emphasis on vascular plants. Since 2009, the herbarium has also managed the departments living collection in the St. John Courtyard Botanical Garden.
Contacts: Michael Thomas, Collections Manager, mbthomas@hawaii.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6b75163b-1458-44f5-a991-2afab0b5d021
Digital Metadata: EML File


ILL

University of Illinois Herbarium

Illinois, midwestern U.S., Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae: Mimosoideas, fossils of Pennsylvanian age coal balls, fungi (especially Meliolales: Ascomycetes and resupinate Basidiomycetes), 19th and early 20th century exsiccatae.
Director: Andrew Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu, 2172440439 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-7300-0069)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: be338a02-55b6-4ce9-a196-e3a6343b6689
Digital Metadata: EML File


ILLS

University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey Fungarium

The herbarium contains 250,000 plant specimens and the fungarium contains 75,000 fungal specimens.
Specialty: Vascular plants and fungi of Illinois, southeastern and midwestern U.S., Great Smoky Mountains National Park; limited neotropical; recent Kyrgyzstan; Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae.
Date Founded: 1858.

Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium: Andrew Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu, 2172440439 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-7300-0069)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 February 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


KANU-KU-F

University of Kansas, R. L. McGregor Herbarium

The Biodiversity Institute collections include 9 million specimens of plants, animals and fossils collected worldwide and 1.2 million archaeological artifacts. For more than 140 years, KU scientists and students have collected and studied life on Earth. Our specimens of plants and animals — prehistoric to living species, microscopic to colossal — have been gathered from every continent and ocean. Our archaeological artifacts document the past cultures of the Great Plains. Biodiversity Institute collections include DNA samples, sound recordings, images, tissues, skeletons and field notes. With powerful tools of information technology, we harness the data associated with our collections to forecast critical environmental events, such as the spread of diseases, invasive species and agricultural pests, and the effects of climate change.

Contacts: Craig Freeman, Director, ccfree@ku.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 February 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


MAINE

University of Maine, Richard Homola Mycological Herbarium

The University of Maine herbarium consists of mycology, lichen, algae, and plant collections. The Richard Homola Mycological collection at the University of Maine dates from the 1850’s and consists of approximately 10,000 fungal specimens, excluding lichens. The early collections from 1850s through early 1950s focused largely on plant pathogens, particularly rusts, from North America. The focus of the macrofungi collection is specimens of Basidiomycota from Maine. Some specimens date from the 1850s, but the bulk of the macrofungi (8000 specimens) was collected by Dr. Richard Homola from 1960’s to 1999 in Maine and North America. Dr. Homola also took excellent 35mm photographic slides and scanning electron micrographs of his specimens; the vast majority of which are vouchered in the Homola collection.
Contacts: Seanna L. Annis, sannis@maine.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 September 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File


WIN

University of Manitoba

Founded in 1907, the University of Manitoba Herbarium contains over 90,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi and lichens. The Cryptogamic Herbarium of the Department of Biological Sciences (WIN) houses the most broadly representative collection of lichens in Manitoba, approximately 15,000 specimens. These include a representative Hudson Bay lichen collection from Wapusk National Park, collected annually between the years 2002 and 2010. The genus Cladonia represents a sizeable portion of the collection, largely from Manitoba and Newfoundland. WIN has served as a rich repository of genetic and chemical material for phylogenetic and secondary metabolite studies

Contacts: Steven Harris, Steven.Harris@umanitoba.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MICH

University of Michigan Herbarium

The fungal herbarium is extraordinarily strong in North American higher fungi, with, among others, the collections of A. H. Smith (agarics, boletes, and gastromycetes), C. H. Kauffman (agarics), D. Baxter (polypores), R. L. Shaffer (agarics), and R. Fogel (hypogeous fungi). Material on which the taxonomic studies of E. B. Mains, on the Uredinales, insecticolous fungi, and Geoglossaceae, and of B. Kanouse, on discomycetes are largely based is in the collection, as are many of L. E. Wehmeyer's pyrenomycetous fungi. The personal herbarium of F. K. Sparrow, which contains mostly specimens of the parasitic genera Physoderma and Urophlyctis as well as a microscope-slide collection of aquatic fungi, is also included. The fungal herbarium is rich in the classical mycological exsiccati sets and contains several historically important, originally private collections such as those of H. A. Kelly and H. C. Beardslee Jr.
Collection Manager: Alison Harrington, alisonhh@umich.edu
Contacts: Loan requests, MICH-inquiry@umich.edu
Contacts: Data corrections/updates, umherb-data@umich.edu
Curator of Fungi & Lichens: Timothy Y. James, tyjames@umich.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0cd2551b-8166-4c05-a0c9-5c8712ce0eb8
Digital Metadata: EML File


MIN

University of Minnesota, Bell Museum of Natural History Herbarium Fungal Collection

The Bell Museum Fungal Herbarium collections date from the 1880's and consist of approximately 100,000 specimens, excluding the lichens. About 10% of the specimens are of Minnesota fungi; the remainder are from North America and elsewhere.

Intensive scientific investigation of Minnesota fungi occurred from about 1885 to 1910 supported by the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. Collections made between 1910 and 1960 focused on plant disease fungi. Renewed interest in documenting fleshy fungi began in the 1960's and has expanded in recent years with the increased emphasis on the analysis of biodiversity.
Contacts: Tim Whitfeld, whitf015@umn.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MISS

University of Mississippi

Contacts: Lucile McCook, bymccook@olemiss.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2ea93dfb-68f6-415f-8df2-6b7757a67c35
Digital Metadata: EML File


MONTU

University of Montana Herbarium

The Herbarium at The University of Montana (MONTU, http://herbarium.dbs.umt.edu) contains over 150,000 plant specimens and has the largest and best representation of the flora of the Northern Rocky Mountains in the world. The Herbarium is particularly well-known for its collections from the alpine and montane regions of Montana. Our vascular plant collections can be accessed via http://pnwherbaria.org. MONTU is also home to the Montana Diatom collection (http://herbarium.dbs.umt.edu/diatoms.asp), and we are excited to have our fungi collection included in the Mycoportal Database.
Contacts: Marilyn Marler, Marilyn.marler@umontana.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9d863f79-0cb6-4493-9872-8f72d6c79e69
Digital Metadata: EML File


NEB

University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Fungi

The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.

Contacts: Thomas Labedz, tlabedz1@unl.edu
Contacts: Robert Zink, rzink2@unl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 227d278c-4603-4e6e-845c-941e964a2815
Digital Metadata: EML File


UNM-Fungi

University of New Mexico Herbarium Mycological Collection

The Museum of Southwestern Biology houses New Mexico’s largest herbarium. Our focus is mainly to document and preserve a record of the flora of the state. We have 130,000 specimens; most are from New Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Our primary international holdings are from Mexico. As the fifth largest state we are relatively unexplored and species new to science are still being discovered, documented, and described. Our specimens represent over 7700 species and serve as a reference for what’s been documented within our region.
Additional UNM Collections:
Bryophyte Collection within the CNABH Portal
Lichen Collection within the CNALH Portal
Vascular Plant Collection within SEINet
Collections Manager: Harpo Faust, harpofaust@unm.edu
Curator: Hannah Marx, hmarx@unm.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ed2681f9-b7fa-4353-93a4-9e821371d458
Digital Metadata: EML File


UNCA-UNCA

University of North Carolina Asheville

The UNCA Fungarium was started in 2022 by Dr. Jonathan Horton and his undergraduate research student, Ari Puentes.  The collection focuses on fleshy fungi of the southern Appalachians, particularly western North Carolina. As the Fungarium grows it will include voucher specimens from Dr. Horton and his students' research, as well as contributed specimens from students in his Mycology course and members of the Asheville Mushroom Club.  The goal is to have DNA bar codes for specimens, especially ectomycorrhizal species.

Curator of Fungi: Jonathan Horton, jhorton@unca.edu, 828-232-5152 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-9994-0585)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2e8cc078-a84e-452b-b627-6566c3bca259
Digital Metadata: EML File


NCU-Fungi

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium: Fungi

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) is a Department within the North Carolina Botanical Garden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Important collectors include William Chambers Coker, John Nathaniel Couch, & Arthur Bliss Seymour. NCU also curates vascular plants, macroalgae, lichens, bryophytes, and plant fossils. NCU, located in the center of the UNC-CH campus, welcomes visitors & researchers; contact Curator for information on hours & parking. STATEMENT ON OFFENSIVE CONTENT ON SPECIMEN LABELS: Collection records at NCU may contain language that reflects historical place or taxon names in an original form that is no longer acceptable or appropriate in an inclusive environment. Because NCU preserves data in their original form to retain authenticity and facilitate research, we have chosen to facilitate conversations and are committed to address the problem of racial, derogatory and demeaning language that may be found in our database. Insensitive or offensive language is not condoned by NCU. We recognize the land and sovereignty of Native & Indigenous nations in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, in North America, and across the world. The North Carolina Botanical Garden and the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation acknowledge that the story told about the history of the land we steward has been incomplete. Before the Morgans and Masons, these lands were home to multiple tribes and the ancestors of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, who persist locally to this day. We recognize that at least one of the adjacent lands we steward, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, was first cleared, cultivated, and worked by Native Americans and later by African enslaved people. We invite you to reflect on our individual and community roles in knowing important and untold stories about the land we each steward.
Herbarium Curatrix: Carol Ann McCormick, mccormick@unc.edu, +1-919-962-6931
Herbarium Director: Alan Weakley, weakley@unc.edu, +1-919-962-0522
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 355fda57-2668-4dfd-b7b8-0acce4d45271
Digital Metadata: EML File


O

University of Oslo, Natural History Museum Fungarium

The collections in Oslo (O) have a total of approx. 300,000 objects and are divided into a Nordic herbarium (about 200,000 objects), a general herbarium (with about 45,000 objects from other countries), a type herbarium (with over 1,000 types) and a large collection of international fiction works (with about 30,000 objects) . The bulk of the material is Norwegian and it includes all fungal groups. Of foreign collections, pore fungi and bark fungi from all parts of the world and micro fungi from the Canary Islands and the Arctic make up a significant portion. The material includes the collections of Søren Chr. Sommerfelt (1794-1838), Ivar Jørstad (1886-1967), Finn-Egil Eckblad (1923-2000) and Leif Ryvarden (1935-).
Contacts: Katriina Bendiksen, katriina.bendiksen@nhm.uio.no
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


URV

University of Richmond

Contacts: John Hayden, jhayden@richmond.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8e3fa355-8792-4a8c-ae9b-e0d2f8076d8e
Digital Metadata: EML File


USAM

University of South Alabama Herbarium

The mycology herbarium was started in 2005. It consists mostly of Agaricomycetes from southern Alabama and neighboring Gulf Coast states.
Contacts: Juan Luis Mata, jmata@southalabama.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 50c94508-8e26-4380-927d-cd4e746dd30c
Digital Metadata: EML File


USCH-Fungi

University of South Carolina, A. C. Moore Herbarium Fungal Collection

The A. C. Moore Herbarium is an important part of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina (Columbia Campus). Founded in 1907 by Dr. Andrew Charles Moore, the original collection of dried plant specimens is now part of an ever-growing collection. Total holdings are just over 120,000 specimens, making the A. C. Moore Herbarium the largest in the state of South Carolina. Researchers and visitors will find a diverse collection of vascular and nonvascular plant material primarily from the Southeastern United States and more specifically from South Carolina. Now over 100 years old, the A. C. Moore Herbarium continues to be an indispensable resource for botanical knowledge.

The fungi specimens included here are entirely from the work of Henry William Ravenel who published Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati (issued in 5 fascicles from 1852-1860 each numbered 1-100 specimens). The volumes held by the University of South Carolina's Caroliniana Library have not been disbound as they have at many other institutions and thus have served to clarify the numbering scheme and sequence. Interestingly, however as part of this digitization effort it has been discovered that there are still some inconsistencies between various copies of the bound volumes with some specimen sequences slightly different. More information on H.W. Ravenel is available at the Plants and Planter website where you can explore his personal journals, correspondence, and more.

Herbarium Curator: Herrick Brown, hbrown@mailbox.sc.edu, +1-803-777-8175
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bcea7d47-7f20-4969-b370-fb33c09531ef
Digital Metadata: EML File


USF

University of South Florida Herbarium - Fungi including lichens

The collections of fungi (including lichens) at the USF Herbarium consist of a few hundred specimens. Most specimens were collected in Florida during the 21st century and many include photos of the living specimen. Continuing collections focus on documenting the fungi of Florida.

Interim Curator: Karla Alvarado, kalvarado1@usf.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 24eeafec-4c38-4fe8-8807-8fc5da9dee9d
Digital Metadata: EML File


TU

University of Tartu Natural History Museum

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, fungi and lichens; Iconotheca of Desmidales, collection of K.Thomasson. Geography: Estonia and Northern Europe, Russia (incl. Caucasus, Siberia and Far East), Australia, Africa and South America. Part of the Estonian national fungal collections: Dried specimens of mushrooms and lichens are stored in four main collections in Estonia, the largest collections of which are located in Tartu (University of Tartu and Estonian University of Life Sciences) and the smaller ones in Tallinn (Tallinn Botanical Garden and Estonian Museum of Natural History). In total, about 600,000 dried specimens are stored in mushroom collections. Most of the materials kept in mushroom collections have been collected from Estonia, but a large part of the materials brought from the territory of the former USSR also form a large part. Nowadays, scientists have brought mushroom lichens from all continents. The collection of live fungal cultures consists of fungi that are grown on agar medium and kept alive under controlled conditions.

Contacts: Irja Saar, irja.saar@ut.ee
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


TENN-F

University of Tennessee Fungal Herbarium

The University of Tennessee fungal herbarium (TENN FU) comprises over 75,000 barcoded and databased specimens emphasizing the southeastern North America but with significant collections from New Zealand and China. Approximately 54,000 specimens are pertinent to this project and include voucher specimens for studies of Hesler, Petersen and students.

Fungal Curator: Dr. Brandon Matheny, pmatheny@utk.edu
Collections Manager: Margaret Oliver, molive18@utk.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 97e2d271-3744-48a3-92b5-5a86afbfb01d
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCHT-F

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

The Fungarium (UCHT-F) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga contains approximately 3800 specimens consisting mainly of macrofungi and lichens. Many of the accessions are the result of over two decades of collection by Dr. J. Hill Craddock and his mycology students. With a geographic emphasis on Hamilton county Tennessee and the adjacent counties of Georgia and Alabama, UCHT-F and its associated data provide an opportunity to perform biological surveys and other research on the fungal taxa of the Southeast. There are focused collections on the Tennessee River Gorge, the Lula Lake Land Trust, Reflection Riding Arboretum, Cloudland Canyon State Park, and other natural areas of the Cumberland Uplands. The specimens of the Fungarium can be used to further our understanding of the myriad fungal species that occur in the region.
Contacts: Hill Craddock, Hill-Craddock@utc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 27e5f1d7-ab45-4cc6-bc91-f2ff98ff10f1
Digital Metadata: EML File


TEX

University of Texas Herbarium

The University of Texas Herbarium (TEX) is part of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center, which houses the combined herbaria of TEX and the Lundell Herbarium (LL). The combined PRC collections include over one million specimens from all parts of the world and represent the 13th largest herbarium in the United States. The two herbaria (TEX and LL) are completely integrated and interfiled, although each sheet is marked as to its herbarium and should be cited as such. The original TEX fungi collections (1116 specimens) were transferred to NY in 1990. Current collections represent Texas fungi in collaboration with the Central Texas Mycological Society.
Currator: Amber Horning, amber.horning@austin.utexas.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0003-2639-6720)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b1a8139f-1aff-4bce-947b-dad6cacdf8eb
Digital Metadata: EML File


VT

University of Vermont, Pringle Herbarium, Macrofungi

The Pringle Herbarium (VT) contains 300,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae and fungi. Of these, this portal contains about 2000 fungi specimens, including all of our specimens of macrofungi. Other digitization projects cover type specimens, vascular plant specimens, North American bryophytes and lichens, and macroalgae. These images and data are available through various portals. The herbarium does not maintain its own online database.
Contacts: David S. Barrington, dbarring@uvm.edu
Curator: Weston L. Testo, weston.testo@uvm.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4171da63-cd34-4f53-a494-16d502507003
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Vermont


WTU

University of Washington Herbarium

The University of Washington Herbarium's total holdings number over 600,000 specimens of vascular and nonvascular plants, fungi, lichens, and marine algae. The mycological collection consists of over 48,000 specimens (350 of these being types) primarily from Washington and Oregon.
Contacts: David Giblin, wtu@u.washington.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UWAL

University of West Alabama Fungarium

Director: Brian Keener, bkeener@uwa.edu
Curator of Fungi and Lichens: Kevin England, alabamaplants@gmail.com
Assistant Curator of Fungi: Alisha Millican, cabracrazy@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 68812866-6656-4fd3-b90e-e52d06ce73a1
Digital Metadata: EML File


WIS

University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, founded in 1849, is a museum collection of dried, labeled fungi of state, national and international importance, which is used extensively for taxonomic and ecological research, as well as for teaching and public service. Today WIS is estimated to hold >1.2 million specimens of algae, fungi, lichens, and plants, placing it among the top 1% of the world’s largest herbarium. It is ranked 17th largest in the world outside of Europe, 11th largest in the Western Hemisphere, 10th largest in the USA, and the 3rd largest public university herbarium in the Americas.
Contacts: Kenneth M. Cameron, kmcameron@wisc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 87505ca2-da02-4939-8798-5d403c72b535
Digital Metadata: EML File


UWSP

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Herbarium

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point fungarium is housed within the UWSP Robert Freckmann herbarium. Formally registered in the late 1960s, the UWSP herbarium raplidly grew from a single cabinet of specimens into one of the largest herbaria in Wisconsin by the 1990s. Particularly rich in specimens of aquatic plants, graminoids, and diverse collections from the northern half of the state, it serves as an essential resource for studies on the flora of Wisconsin. The collection contains c. 200,000 vascular plants, c. 40,000 byophyte specimens, several thousand fungi specimens, and several hundred macroalgae specimens. The fungarium consists primarily of specimens collected by Carol Lamphear-Cook in the 1990s, mostly in the northern half of Wisconsin.

Contacts: Stephanie Lyon, Stephanie.Lyon@uwsp.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d5fc7575-a3f0-4211-bb96-4da84624f4aa
Digital Metadata: EML File


RMS

University of Wyoming, Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium

Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium (RMS) at the University of Wyoming was formally established in 1979.  It contains 49,000 specimens, mostly of microfungi, that represent the life's work of Dr. Solheim (50 years). Many of the specimens were acquired through exchange. It represents the largest collection of fungi from the Rocky Mountain region.

The collection is associated with the Rocky Mountain Herbarium which contains 1.2 million specimens of vascular plants of which 750,000 are databased and georeferrenced.
Contacts: Burrell “Ernie” Nelson, bnelsonn@uwyo.edu
Director of the Herbarium: David Tank, dtank@uwyo.edu
Curator: Ben Legler, blegler@uwyo.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 53b69cf0-a097-4840-91ed-a1eb33f8ded2
Digital Metadata: EML File


UPS-BOT

Uppsala University, Museum of Evolution

Herbarium UPS includes approximately 3.1 million objects, 620 000 of which have been digitized so far (22 April 2013). Digitized objects include vascular plants, fungi (incl. lichens), bryophytes, and algae. The extent of digitization differs substantially between organismal groups. Currently, Nordic lichenized fungi and Nordic non-lichenized ascomycetes are particularly well covered.
Contacts: Stefan Ekman, stefan.ekman@em.uu.se
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


USAC-USCG Hongos

Usac, Cecon, Herbario USCG Hongos

The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Herbarium (USCG), created in 1923 by the Guatemalan botanist Ulises Rojas, is the oldest in the country. The USCG Herbarium contains more than 47,000 specimens from Guatemala, grouped in 273 families, 1,959 genera and 6,842 species of hepatics, mosses, ferns, vascular plants, lichens and macrofungi. / El Herbario Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USCG), instaurado por el botánico guatemalteco Ulises Rojas en 1923, es el más antiguo del país. La colección del Herbario USCG cuenta actualmente con más de 47,000 ejemplares que corresponden a 273 familias, 1,959 géneros y 6,842 especies de hepáticas, musgos, helechos, plantas con semillas, líquenes y macrohongos.

Curator: Maura Quezada, herbariouscg@gmail.com, +502 30764279 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-8982-4350)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 September 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


CFMR

USDA Forest Service, Center for Forest Mycology Research

The Herbarium at the Center for Forest Mycology Research at the Forest Products Laboratory is a national repository for the collections of wood decay fungi collected by mycologists since the early 1900's. The herbarium was added to CFMR in 1998. It is estimated that about 70,000 specimens are housed in the collection. USDA Division of Forest Pathology (BFDL); Moved and renamed (after 1981) USDA Forest Service, Center for Forest Mycology Research (CFMR)
Contacts: Beatriz Ortiz-Santana, bortizsantana@fs.fed.us
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 June 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


FPF

USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Specializes in forest fungi of Rocky Mountains and southwestern U.S.; Phoradendron of U.S. and northern Mexico; Arceuthobium worldwide. The collection includes 4622 accessions of fungi from western North America collected 1890 to 1960 that represent fungi causing tree diseases and wood decays. Founded in 1952. Currently housed in the RMRS in Flagstaff, Arizona. Contains an estimated 12,000 specimens.
Contacts: Brian Geils, bgeils@npgcable.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3bb71ab5-e52c-4b41-b160-4587e5fa7a45
Digital Metadata: EML File


BPI

USDA United States National Fungus Collections

The USDA-ARS U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI) currently houses approximately one-million reference specimens. Data associated with over 925,000 specimens have been computerized and are available on-line. In addition reports of fungi on plants provide a comprehensive account of the host range and geographic distribution of fungi on plants throughout the world. Data are continuously added to the databases from herbarium specimens and newly published fungus-host distributions and disease reports. Additional databases contain taxonomic literature references and accurate scientific names of plant pathogenic fungi.

Contacts: Lisa A. Castlebury, Lisa.Castlebury@USDA.GOV
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ae4b3cef-0172-4256-871c-7e2e1aa289ba
Digital Metadata: EML File


VSC

Valdosta State University Herbarium

The Valdosta State University Herbarium (VSC) provides a repository for the preservation of voucher specimens that document the flora of the Coastal Plain region of Georgia and specimens from a broader geographical area that might be useful in the study of the flora of this region and that enable specialized research on particular groups of plants carried out by faculty and students in residence at Valdosta State University and by taxonomic specialists at other institutions. VSC also provides specimens for use in teaching, and its staff responds to requests from the general public, natural resource managers, agricultural scientists, and others by providing information about plants and service determinations of unknown plants and, where appropriate, preserving vouchers relating to such.
Contacts: Emily Cantonwine, egcantonwine@valdosta.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2bc379a2-4da7-4fc3-b964-ebb1f45ee215
Digital Metadata: EML File


VPI

Virginia Tech University, Massey Herbarium - Fungi

The mycological collections at Virginia Tech include primarily Basidiomycetes with emphases on the Agaricales, Boletales, Gasteromycetes, and the Aphyllophorales. In addition, a small Ascomycete collection with emphasis on Discomycetes is present. The collection has been a pivotal part of the program of teaching and research in mycology over the past from 1970 through 2005. With the retirement of Dr. Orson K. Miller, the mycological collection entered a static stage in terms of growth. In 2012, the bulk of the collection was transferred to the New York Botanical Garden with 5400 specimens from the Southeastern United States remaining at VPI. Many collections are complemented by fresh notes, color transparencies and black and white negatives. A Microsoft Access database contains nearly 15,000 records, including all specimens currently housed at VPI. The mycological herbarium is participated in the Macrofungi Collections Consortium Digitization Project during 2013-2014 and is now available online.

Prior to being moved to the New York Botanical Garden, the collection contained an estimated 29,500 specimens. Geographical coverage included major collections from Virginia and the Appalachian region, central Idaho and northwestern Montana. In addition, an Alaskan collection numbered more than 6000 with emphasis on arctic and alpine tundra fungi. Major foreign collection were from Europe, Western Australia, Republic of Korea and from The Greater Antilles, especially Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Additional collections came from Canada, Japan, South Africa, and Thailand. Those interested in consulting specimens from outside the SE United States region should contact the New York Botanical Garden.

Contacts: Dr. Jordan Metzgar, metzgar@vt.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 47215d96-89c4-4890-b6a8-9c9f8dafacce
Digital Metadata: EML File


YSU-F

Yugra State University Fungarium, specimen-based

The reference specimen collection of Yugra State University currently stores about 5000 specimens of fungi, mosses, hepatics and vascular plants. It was initially based on private collections of several researchers working on biodiversity assessment in Western Siberia. In 2015 the major part of collection was imported to the database management system Specify. The collection is registered in Index Herbariorum since 2016. Main goal of the YSU Biological Collection (YSU BC) is to accumulate biological collections and manage associated biodiversity information in the Khanty-Mansiyskiy Autonomous okrug – Yugra. For that purpose, we are developing conditions for physical storage of samples, facilitating their scientific analysis, and applying computer technologies for storage, analysis and distribution of biodiversity data. We encourage researchers working in the area to share their biological collections with YSU BC. A rule for the visitors of YSU Mukhrino field station was set since 2016 to share their collected material with the host university.

Contacts: Nina Filippova, filippova.courlee.nina@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 November 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Yugra State University


MP

General Observation and Personal Collections

Personal research data managed directly within data portal. This data node allows researchers to enter, manage, and print labels for their field data before specimens are deposited within a public collection. The records are considered 'observations' until the specimens are formally accessioned and a physical specimen available to researchers within a public institution.
Contacts: Andy or Scott MyCoPortal Administrator, help@mycoportal.org
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5a2ec9f3-29e6-4fac-90bc-90652e5eeacd
Digital Metadata: EML File