Davis & Elkins College Herbarium (DEWV)
The Davis & Elkins College Herbarium (DEWV) contains over 10,000 vouchers of macrofungi of West Virginia. This is an ongoing project documenting the distribution and diversity of macrofungi in the state. The project has yielded several new state records, including the discovery of species that have not previously been scientifically described. The herbarium also contains approximately 2,000 vascular plants.
Contacts: Michelle Mabry, mabrym@dewv.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6ffbca56-eceb-4ff8-8455-a385a4ecdc2e
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 10,804 specimen records
- 10,774 (100%) georeferenced
- 10,339 (96%) identified to species
- 121 families
- 340 genera
- 1,224 species
- 1,300 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
