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
  • Agrocybe (7)
  • Crassisporium (6)
  • Deconica (2)
  • Galerina (4)
  • Galeropsis (1)
  • Gymnopilus (56)
  • Hebeloma (24)
  • Hemipholiota (4)
  • Hypholoma (27)
  • Kuehneromyces (3)
  • Naematoloma (2)
  • Pholiota (144)
  • Pholiotina (1)
  • Protostropharia (6)
  • Psilocybe (6)
  • Stropharia (12)
  • Stropholoma (1)