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)
Head Curator: Molly Nepokroeff, molly.nepokroeff@botanicgardens.org (ORCID #: 0009-0008-0056-9201)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 881dbacb-effd-4a6a-b4f4-45da2579e689
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/DBG-DBG_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/a4f29a62-d170-4775-b29a-09deaf138ee4
Address:
Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi, Denver Botanic Gardens
Freyer – Newman Center
1085 York Street
Denver, Colorado 80204
US
720-865-3662
Collection Statistics
- 24,362 specimen records
- 17,672 (73%) georeferenced
- 22,789 (94%) with images (54,235 total images)
- 24 GenBank genetic references
- 16,348 (67%) identified to species
- 172 families
- 635 genera
- 2,956 species
- 3,067 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
