University of Arizona, Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium, specimen-based (ARIZ)

The Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium at the University of Arizona houses over 40,000 accessioned specimens of fungi and fungus-like organisms, with special collections of rusts, polypores, and corticioid fungi. Our holdings are global in origin, with special attention to the macrofungi of Arizona.
Contacts: A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, arnold@ag.arizona.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: eac471ae-8567-413e-9d11-5df79955dbe7
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 35,172 specimen records
  • 16 (0.05%) georeferenced
  • 18,928 (54%) with images (52,511 total images)
  • 982 GenBank, 2 misc genetic references
  • 31,066 (88%) identified to species
  • 268 families
  • 1,350 genera
  • 4,654 species
  • 4,678 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Abortiporus (17)
  • Beniowskia (2)
  • Bjerkandera (59)
  • Bulbillomyces (13)
  • Cerocorticium (7)
  • Conohypha (7)
  • Crustoderma (176)
  • Cymatoderma (2)
  • Diacanthodes (2)
  • Fibrodontia (1)
  • Gloeodontia (23)
  • Gloeoporus (43)
  • Hydnomerulius (22)
  • Hydnophlebia (15)
  • Hyphoderma (175)
  • Hypochnicium (192)
  • Irpex (29)
  • Junghuhnia (68)
  • Kneiffia (1)
  • Loweomyces (16)
  • Merulius (9)
  • Mycoacia (119)
  • Mycoleptodon (4)
  • Mycoleptodonoides (1)
  • Mycorrhaphium (7)
  • Odontia (65)
  • Odonticium (29)
  • Phellodon (1)
  • Phlebia (128)
  • Radulomyces (8)
  • Resinicium (58)
  • Sarcodontia (28)
  • Scopuloides (36)
  • Sporotrichum (1)
  • Steccherinum (230)
  • Subulicystidium (197)