University of New Mexico Herbarium Mycological Collection (UNM-Fungi)

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
Collection Statistics
  • 375 specimen records
  • 330 (88%) georeferenced
  • 235 (63%) with images (243 total images)
  • 5 GenBank genetic references
  • 326 (87%) identified to species
  • 66 families
  • 125 genera
  • 218 species
  • 222 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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