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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)
Homepage: https://inhs.illinois.edu/resources/biological-collections
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 February 2023
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ILLS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 57,941 specimen records
  • 56,068 (97%) georeferenced
  • 15,554 (27%) with images (42,260 total images)
  • 59 GenBank genetic references
  • 51,141 (88%) identified to species
  • 382 families
  • 2,027 genera
  • 7,754 species
  • 7,970 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Illinois,
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Adams, (5)
  • Alexander (4)
  • Alexander, (15)
  • Bureau, (1)
  • Calhoun, (2)
  • Carroll, (6)
  • Carroll. (1)
  • Champaign (5)
  • Champaign, (131)
  • Christian, (1)
  • Clark, (4)
  • Clay, (3)
  • Clinton, (2)
  • Coles (4)
  • Coles, (43)
  • Cook, (6)
  • Crawford, (1)
  • Cumberland (1)
  • DeKalb, (2)
  • Douglas, (2)
  • Du Page, (2)
  • Edgar, (2)
  • Edwards (1)
  • Effingham (1)
  • Effingham, (8)
  • Fayette, (9)
  • Ford, (2)
  • Franklin, (2)
  • Gallatin (1)
  • Gallatin, (10)
  • Grundy (1)
  • Hancock, (55)
  • Hardin, (7)
  • Henderson, (1)
  • Iroquois, (3)
  • Jackson (75)
  • Jackson, (252)
  • Jackson. (1)
  • Jasper, (1)
  • Jefferson (2)
  • Jefferson, (9)
  • Jersey, (2)
  • Jo Davies, (1)
  • Jo Daviess, (6)
  • Johnson (2)
  • Johnson, (53)
  • Kankakee, (1)
  • La Salle, (4)
  • LaSalle, (1)
  • Lake, (4)
  • Lawrence, (25)
  • Lee, (8)
  • Logan, (2)
  • Macon, (1)
  • Macoupin, (1)
  • Madison, (4)
  • Marion, (4)
  • Marshall, (2)
  • Mason, (7)
  • Massac, (4)
  • Mc Henry (1)
  • Mc Lean, (2)
  • McDonough, (2)
  • McDonoughCounty, (1)
  • McHenry, (1)
  • McLean, (2)
  • Menard, (1)
  • Monroe (2)
  • Monroe, (5)
  • Montgomery, (2)
  • Morgan, (2)
  • Moultrie, (2)
  • Ogel, (2)
  • Ogle, (8)
  • Peoria (1)
  • Peoria, (2)
  • Perry (1)
  • Perry, (6)
  • Piatt (1)
  • Piatt, (5)
  • Piatt, Illinois (1)
  • Piatte, (3)
  • Pike, (2)
  • Pope (2)
  • Pope, (37)
  • Pulaski (2)
  • Pulaski, (9)
  • Putnam, (1)
  • Pyatt, (1)
  • Randolph, (8)
  • Richland (2)
  • Richland, (4)
  • Rock Island, (1)
  • Saline (1)
  • Saline, (10)
  • Sangamon, (5)
  • Schuyler, (1)
  • Shelby, (3)
  • St. Clair (1)
  • St. Clair, (2)
  • Stark, (1)
  • Stephenson, (2)
  • Tazewell, (2)
  • Union (20)
  • Union, (176)
  • Vermilion, (22)
  • Vermillion (2)
  • Vermillion, (4)
  • Wabash (3)
  • Wabash, (4)
  • Warren, (1)
  • Washington, (3)
  • Wayne, (1)
  • White, (4)
  • Whiteside (1)
  • Whiteside, (3)
  • Wiliamson, (1)
  • Will, (2)
  • Williamson (6)
  • Williamson, (31)
  • Williamsson, (1)
  • Willimson, (1)
  • Winnebago (1)
  • Winnebago, (7)
  • Woodford, (3)
  • [Champaign], (1)