Louisiana State University, Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium (LSUM-Fungi)
Louisiana State University Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium (LSUM) was founded in 1954 and houses ca. 20,000 higher fungi from tropical America and U.S.A.
Contacts: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager, jkluse@lsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8f3d5b53-acea-4e2a-89de-0162fd1ffadb
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/LSUM-Fungi_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/0d4af118-b79e-40c7-9cc6-142c5027cb16
Address:
Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium
Louisiana State University
131 Life Sciences Bldg.
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USA
225-578-8564
Collection Statistics
- 18,364 specimen records
- 17,454 (95%) georeferenced
- 18,335 (100%) with images (26,377 total images)
- 9,816 (53%) identified to species
- 274 families
- 990 genera
- 3,603 species
- 3,668 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
