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Collection Profile for:
Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS)

The herbarium contains 280,000 plant specimens and the fungarium contains 75,000 fungal specimens.
Specialty: Vascular plants and fungi of Illinois, southeastern and midwestern U.S., Great Smoky Mountains National Park; limited neotropical; recent Kyrgyzstan; Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae.
Date Founded: 1858.

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Address:

Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium
University of Illinois
1816 South Oak Street
Champaign, IL   61820
USA
217-244-0439
http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/plants

Collection Statistics

  • 284,778 specimen records
  • 65,937 (23%) georeferenced
  • 55,772 (20%) with media (55,838 total media)
  • 274,832 (97%) identified to species
  • 571 families
  • 3,114 genera
  • 13,747 species
  • 16,050 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anisacanthus (2)
  • Aphelandra (4)
  • Asystasia (5)
  • Barleria (1)
  • Blechum (3)
  • Dicliptera (14)
  • Dyschoriste (2)
  • Habracanthus (1)
  • Hemigraphis (1)
  • Hygrophila (4)
  • Justicia (104)
  • Mendoncia (1)
  • Odontonema (1)
  • Pachystachys (6)
  • Peristrophe (2)
  • Polylychnis (1)
  • Pseuderanthemum (1)
  • Rostellularia (1)
  • Ruellia (588)
  • Siphonoglossa (1)
  • Strobilanthes (1)
  • Tetramerium (2)
  • Thunbergia (5)
  • Trichanthera (1)