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
  • Anguillosporella (2)
  • Asperisporium (7)
  • Cercoseptoria (2)
  • Cercospora (159)
  • Cercosporella (17)
  • Colletogloeum (2)
  • Cylindrosporium (67)
  • Cymadothea (5)
  • Deightoniella (3)
  • Didymaria (1)
  • Didymella (2)
  • Dothistroma (2)
  • Helminthosporium (2)
  • Lecanosticta (24)
  • Monodidymaria (2)
  • Mycosphaerella (79)
  • Mycovellosiella (6)
  • Nimbya (1)
  • Ovularia (8)
  • Passalora (86)
  • Phacellium (1)
  • Phaeoisariopsis (2)
  • Phleospora (1)
  • Phloeospora (30)
  • Phyllosticta (4)
  • Prathigada (1)
  • Pseudocercospora (58)
  • Pseudocercosporella (20)
  • Pyricularia (2)
  • Ramularia (125)
  • Septoria (329)
  • Sirosporium (2)
  • Stigmina (2)
  • Zasmidium (4)