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)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 881dbacb-effd-4a6a-b4f4-45da2579e689
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi, Denver Botanic Gardens
Freyer – Newman Center
1085 York Street
Denver, Colorado   80204
US
720-865-3662
Collection Statistics
  • 23,814 specimen records
  • 17,124 (72%) georeferenced
  • 21,774 (91%) with images (53,155 total images)
  • 6 GenBank genetic references
  • 15,748 (66%) identified to species
  • 170 families
  • 608 genera
  • 2,862 species
  • 2,965 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agaricus (560)
  • Amanita (5)
  • Battarraea (1)
  • Battarrea (11)
  • Battarreoides (1)
  • Bovista (83)
  • Bovistella (6)
  • Calbovista (24)
  • Calvatia (188)
  • Chlamydopus (1)
  • Chlorophyllum (68)
  • Coprinus (77)
  • Craterium (17)
  • Crucibulum (63)
  • Cyathus (53)
  • Cystoderma (123)
  • Cystodermella (9)
  • Cystolepiota (1)
  • Disciseda (123)
  • Endoptychum (28)
  • Fayodia (2)
  • Floccularia (118)
  • Gastropila (1)
  • Gyrophragmium (1)
  • Lentinula (1)
  • Lepiota (142)
  • Leucoagaricus (24)
  • Leucocoprinus (29)
  • Lycoperdon (549)
  • Macrolepiota (1)
  • Montagnea (12)
  • Mycenastrum (41)
  • Nidula (2)
  • Nidularia (1)
  • Nolanea (2)
  • Omphalia (1)
  • Oudemansiella (2)
  • Phaeolepiota (7)
  • Phaeomarasmius (2)
  • Podaxis (1)
  • Tulostoma (129)
  • Vascellum (22)