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Denver Botanic Gardens, Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi (DBG-DBG)

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)
Collections Assistant: Matthew Sheik, matthew.sheik@botanicgardens.org, 720-865-3777 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-9496-6898)
Homepage: http://www.botanicgardens.org/science-research/our-collections
Homepage: https://www.botanicgardens.org/our-collections/sam-mitchel-herbarium-fungi
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 881dbacb-effd-4a6a-b4f4-45da2579e689
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/DBG-DBG_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Address:
Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi, Denver Botanic Gardens
Freyer – Newman Center
1085 York Street
Denver, Colorado   80204
US
720-865-3662
Collection Statistics
  • 24,133 specimen records
  • 17,446 (72%) georeferenced
  • 22,008 (91%) with images (53,389 total images)
  • 7 GenBank genetic references
  • 16,224 (67%) identified to species
  • 170 families
  • 624 genera
  • 2,927 species
  • 3,037 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics