USDA United States National Fungus Collections (BPI)
The USDA-ARS U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI) currently houses approximately one-million reference specimens. Data associated with over 925,000 specimens have been computerized and are available on-line. In addition reports of fungi on plants provide a comprehensive account of the host range and geographic distribution of fungi on plants throughout the world. Data are continuously added to the databases from herbarium specimens and newly published fungus-host distributions and disease reports. Additional databases contain taxonomic literature references and accurate scientific names of plant pathogenic fungi.
Contacts: Lisa A. Castlebury, Lisa.Castlebury@USDA.GOV
Homepage: https://fungi.ars.usda.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ae4b3cef-0172-4256-871c-7e2e1aa289ba
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/BPI_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d1a3b128-b406-46bb-a6d1-f3591dcc8a7b
Address:
USDA-ARS-MNGDBL
U.S. National Fungus Collections, USDA-ARS
Room 230, Building 010A
10300 Baltimore Avenue
Beltsville, Maryland 20705
U.S.A.
[1] 301 504 5270
Collection Statistics
- 962,113 specimen records
- 430,416 (45%) georeferenced
- 170,936 (18%) with images (215,276 total images)
- 997 GenBank genetic references
- 888,537 (92%) identified to species
- 648 families
- 5,337 genera
- 70,073 species
- 72,762 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
