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University of Tennessee Fungal Herbarium (TENN-F)

The University of Tennessee fungal herbarium (TENN FU) comprises over 75,000 barcoded and databased specimens emphasizing the southeastern North America but with significant collections from New Zealand and China. Approximately 54,000 specimens are pertinent to this project and include voucher specimens for studies of Hesler, Petersen and students.

Fungal Curator: Dr. Brandon Matheny, pmatheny@utk.edu
Collections Manager: Margaret Oliver, molive18@utk.edu
Homepage: https://herbarium.utk.edu/fungus/index.php
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 97e2d271-3744-48a3-92b5-5a86afbfb01d
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/TENN-F_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 76,028 specimen records
  • 75,166 (99%) georeferenced
  • 16,941 (22%) with images (23,824 total images)
  • 100 GenBank, 15 misc genetic references
  • 59,170 (78%) identified to species
  • 351 families
  • 1,654 genera
  • 11,126 species
  • 11,244 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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