Collection Profile for: University of Wyoming, Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium (RMS)
Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium (RMS) at the University of Wyoming was formally established in 1979. It contains 49,000 specimens, mostly of microfungi, that represent the life's work of Dr. Solheim (50 years). Many of the specimens were acquired through exchange. It represents the largest collection of fungi from the Rocky Mountain region.
The collection is associated with the Rocky Mountain Herbarium which contains 1.2 million specimens of vascular plants of which 900,000 are databased.
Mycology Collections Portal (2025). University of Wyoming, Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xznhyk accessed via the Mycology Collections Portal , www.mycoportal.org/portal on 2025-10-23.
