Denver Botanic Gardens, Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi (DBG-DBG)

Specialty: Fleshy fungi, ascomycetes, gasteromycetes, and Cortinariaceae of the Rocky Mountain region, mostly Colorado. Housed at Denver Botanic Gardens. Date Founded: 1963. Higher resolution images are available upon request.
Associate Curator: Andrew Wilson, andrew.wilson@botanicgardens.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-1623-4229)
Collections Assistant: Matthew Sheik, matthew.sheik@botanicgardens.org, 720-865-3777 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-9496-6898)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 881dbacb-effd-4a6a-b4f4-45da2579e689
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi, Denver Botanic Gardens
Freyer – Newman Center
1085 York Street
Denver, Colorado   80204
US
720-865-3662
Collection Statistics
  • 24,304 specimen records
  • 17,614 (72%) georeferenced
  • 22,593 (93%) with images (53,974 total images)
  • 15 GenBank genetic references
  • 16,319 (67%) identified to species
  • 171 families
  • 631 genera
  • 2,950 species
  • 3,054 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Helvella (263)
  • Leptopodia (3)
  • Leucangium (2)
  • Macroscyphus (1)
  • Paxina (1)
  • Underwoodia (1)
  • Wynnella (7)