University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey Fungarium (ILLS)

The herbarium contains 250,000 plant specimens and the fungarium contains 75,000 fungal specimens.
Specialty: Vascular plants and fungi of Illinois, southeastern and midwestern U.S., Great Smoky Mountains National Park; limited neotropical; recent Kyrgyzstan; Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae.
Date Founded: 1858.

Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium: Andrew Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu, 2172440439 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-7300-0069)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 July 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 58,028 specimen records
  • 56,155 (97%) georeferenced
  • 15,554 (27%) with images (42,260 total images)
  • 59 GenBank genetic references
  • 51,219 (88%) identified to species
  • 382 families
  • 2,034 genera
  • 7,793 species
  • 8,009 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Wiscosin,
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  • Vilas, (1)