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
  • 35,172 specimen records
  • 16 (0.05%) georeferenced
  • 18,928 (54%) with images (52,511 total images)
  • 982 GenBank, 2 misc genetic references
  • 31,066 (88%) identified to species
  • 268 families
  • 1,350 genera
  • 4,654 species
  • 4,678 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Corticium (228)
  • Cytidia (11)
  • Dendrocorticium (16)
  • Dendrothele (152)
  • Erythricium (12)
  • Fibricium (40)
  • Galzinia (3)
  • Gloeocystidiellum (87)
  • Gloeohypochnicium (13)
  • Granulobasidium (4)
  • Hemmesomyces (11)
  • Hyphoderma (301)
  • Intextomyces (1)
  • Laeticorticium (10)
  • Laetisaria (7)
  • Leptosporomyces (5)
  • Mutatoderma (15)
  • Parvobasidium (2)
  • Peniophorella (446)
  • Punctularia (4)
  • Repetobasidium (1)
  • Rhizochaete (18)
  • Sistotremastrum (29)
  • Tomentellopsis (7)
  • Tylospora (4)
  • Vararia (19)
  • Vuilleminia (8)
  • Xenasma (112)