USDA United States National Fungus Collections (BPI)

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
Address:
USDA-ARS-MNGDBL
U.S. National Fungus Collections, USDA-ARS
Room 230, Building 010A
10300 Baltimore Avenue
Beltsville, Maryland   20705
U.S.A.
[1] 301 504 5270
Collection Statistics
  • 962,097 specimen records
  • 421,848 (44%) georeferenced
  • 171,010 (18%) with images (215,398 total images)
  • 970 GenBank genetic references
  • 888,527 (92%) identified to species
  • 647 families
  • 5,338 genera
  • 70,057 species
  • 72,736 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acrodontium (1)
  • Arcuatospora (1)
  • Ascocodinaea (3)
  • Catenularia (7)
  • Chaetopsis (4)
  • Chaetosphaeria (131)
  • Chloridium (29)
  • Codinaea (9)
  • Codinaeopsis (1)
  • Conicomyces (1)
  • Dinemasporiella (1)
  • Dinemasporiopsis (1)
  • Dinemasporium (204)
  • Dischloridium (1)
  • Erionema (3)
  • Exochalara (2)
  • Gonytrichum (44)
  • Lentomita (7)
  • Melanochaeta (1)
  • Melanopsamma (82)
  • Melanopsammella (2)
  • Meliola (49)
  • Menispora (41)
  • Mesobotrys (2)
  • Miyoshia (1)
  • Monilochaetes (10)
  • Nitschkia (29)
  • Phaeoisaria (5)
  • Ramichloridium (4)
  • Sphaeria (4)
  • Sporoschisma (57)
  • Stanjehughesia (4)
  • Thozetella (5)
  • Thozetia (1)
  • Veronaea (2)
  • Wallrothiella (27)
  • ZignoĆ«lla (133)