University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey Fungarium - Fungi (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: 30 January 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 58,028 specimen records
- 56,162 (97%) georeferenced
- 15,595 (27%) with images (42,353 total images)
- 76 GenBank genetic references
- 51,230 (88%) identified to species
- 382 families
- 2,035 genera
- 7,797 species
- 8,013 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
