University of South Florida Herbarium (USF)
The collections of fungi (excluding lichens) at the USF Herbarium consist of a few hundred specimens. Most specimens were collected in Florida during the 21st century and many include photos of the living specimen. Continuing collections focus on documenting the fungi of Florida.
Interim Curator: Karla Alvarado, kalvarado1@usf.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 24eeafec-4c38-4fe8-8807-8fc5da9dee9d
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 760 specimen records
- 638 (84%) georeferenced
- 352 (46%) with images (627 total images)
- 402 (53%) identified to species
- 86 families
- 165 genera
- 262 species
- 263 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
