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
  • Amyloporia (89)
  • Aurantiporus (14)
  • Cellulariella (1)
  • Cerioporus (23)
  • Cerrena (31)
  • Cinereomyces (61)
  • Coriolopsis (46)
  • Cryptoporus (26)
  • Daedaleopsis (40)
  • Dentocorticium (3)
  • Dichomitus (47)
  • Diplomitoporus (40)
  • Earliella (31)
  • Epithele (20)
  • Erastia (9)
  • Favolus (23)
  • Flavodon (2)
  • Fomes (60)
  • Funalia (3)
  • Globifomes (5)
  • Grammothele (11)
  • Hapalopilus (47)
  • Haploporus (5)
  • Heliocybe (27)
  • Hexagonia (55)
  • Lentinus (140)
  • Lenzites (30)
  • Leptoporus (11)
  • Lopharia (12)
  • Loweporus (49)
  • Macrohyporia (2)
  • Megasporoporia (6)
  • Megasporoporiella (19)
  • Melanoporia (3)
  • Microporellus (22)
  • Microporus (17)
  • Neofavolus (9)
  • Neolentinus (17)
  • Nigrofomes (1)
  • Nigroporus (28)
  • Oligoporus (20)
  • Pachykytospora (21)
  • Panus (21)
  • Perenniporia (364)
  • Picipes (21)
  • Piloporia (2)
  • Podofomes (13)
  • Polyporus (50)
  • Poria (36)
  • Poronidulus (6)
  • Protomerulius (2)
  • Pycnoporus (81)
  • Pyrofomes (37)
  • Rhodonia (23)
  • Sidera (44)
  • Skeletocutis (236)
  • Spongipellis (19)
  • Stiptophyllum (1)
  • Tinctoporellus (28)
  • Trametella (5)
  • Trametes (340)
  • Trichaptum (183)
  • Tyromyces (77)
  • Wolfiporia (25)