University of Wyoming, Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium (RMS)
Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium (RMS) at the University of Wyoming was formally established in 1979. It contains 49,000 specimens, mostly of microfungi, that represent the life's work of Dr. Solheim (50 years). Many of the specimens were acquired through exchange. It represents the largest collection of fungi from the Rocky Mountain region.
The collection is associated with the Rocky Mountain Herbarium which contains 1.2 million specimens of vascular plants of which 750,000 are databased and georeferrenced.
The collection is associated with the Rocky Mountain Herbarium which contains 1.2 million specimens of vascular plants of which 750,000 are databased and georeferrenced.
Contacts: Burrell “Ernie” Nelson, bnelsonn@uwyo.edu
Director of the Herbarium: David Tank, dtank@uwyo.edu
Curator: Ben Legler, blegler@uwyo.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 53b69cf0-a097-4840-91ed-a1eb33f8ded2
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/RMS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 37,245 specimen records
- 5,105 (14%) georeferenced
- 31,424 (84%) with images (31,931 total images)
- 35,345 (95%) identified to species
- 321 families
- 1,603 genera
- 10,751 species
- 10,993 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
