University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey Fungarium (ILLS)

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)

Homepage: https://inhs.illinois.edu/resources/biological-collections

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 14 February 2023

DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ILLS_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Collection Statistics

57,941 specimen records
56,068 (97%) georeferenced
15,554 (27%) with images (42,260 total images)
59 GenBank genetic references
51,141 (88%) identified to species
382 families
2,027 genera
7,754 species
7,970 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

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Taxon Distribution

Taxon Distribution

Alectoria (1)
Allocetraria (1)
Bryoria (2)
Hypogymnia (1)
Imshaugia (1)
Letharia (5)
Masonhalea (1)
Melanelia (9)
Melanelixia (1)
Myelochroa (1)
Parmelia (2)
Parmotrema (1)
Punctelia (1)
Pycnothelia (2)
Tuckermanopsis (1)
Usnea (3)

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Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey Fungarium (ILLS) 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) Homepage: https://inhs.illinois.edu/resources/biological-collections Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 14 February 2023 DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ILLS_DwC-A.zip Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Collection Statistics 57,941 specimen records 56,068 (97%) georeferenced 15,554 (27%) with images (42,260 total images) 59 GenBank genetic references 51,141 (88%) identified to species 382 families 2,027 genera 7,754 species 7,970 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution Taxon Distribution Taxon Distribution Alectoria (1) Allocetraria (1) Bryoria (2) Hypogymnia (1) Imshaugia (1) Letharia (5) Masonhalea (1) Melanelia (9) Melanelixia (1) Myelochroa (1) Parmelia (2) Parmotrema (1) Punctelia (1) Pycnothelia (2) Tuckermanopsis (1) Usnea (3)