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
  • Arrhenia (3)
  • Aspropaxillus (1)
  • Callistosporium (1)
  • Catathelasma (5)
  • Clitocybe (37)
  • Collybia (8)
  • Infundibulicybe (7)
  • Lactocollybia (9)
  • Lepista (6)
  • Leucopaxillus (11)
  • Melanoleuca (10)
  • Myxomphalia (4)
  • Omphalina (1)
  • Phyllotopsis (10)
  • Pseudoclitocybe (2)
  • Resupinatus (55)
  • Ripartites (3)
  • Stigmatolemma (5)
  • Tricholoma (59)
  • Tricholomopsis (50)
  • Tricholosporum (1)