University of Arizona, Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium, specimen-based (ARIZ)

The Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium at the University of Arizona houses over 40,000 accessioned specimens of fungi and fungus-like organisms, with special collections of rusts, polypores, and corticioid fungi. Our holdings are global in origin, with special attention to the macrofungi of Arizona.
Contacts: A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, arnold@ag.arizona.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: eac471ae-8567-413e-9d11-5df79955dbe7
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 35,793 specimen records
  • 183 (0.51%) georeferenced
  • 18,928 (53%) with images (52,511 total images)
  • 1,391 GenBank, 34 misc genetic references
  • 31,592 (88%) identified to species
  • 277 families
  • 1,400 genera
  • 4,766 species
  • 4,814 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agaricus (105)
  • Amanita (9)
  • Battarrea (3)
  • Battarreoides (10)
  • Bovista (8)
  • Calvatia (33)
  • Chlamydopus (3)
  • Chlorophyllum (18)
  • Coprinus (13)
  • Crucibulum (20)
  • Cyathia (8)
  • Cyathus (16)
  • Cystoderma (4)
  • Cystodermella (14)
  • Disciseda (7)
  • Echinoderma (4)
  • Endoptychum (3)
  • Flammula (1)
  • Floccularia (13)
  • Gyrophragmium (2)
  • Langermannia (1)
  • Lepiota (38)
  • Leucoagaricus (10)
  • Leucocoprinus (12)
  • Longula (1)
  • Lycoperdon (39)
  • Macrolepiota (2)
  • Macropsalliota (1)
  • Montagnea (8)
  • Mycenastrum (8)
  • Nidularia (3)
  • Onnia (1)
  • Phloeomana (1)
  • Piptoporus (1)
  • Podaxis (27)
  • Tulostoma (25)