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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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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 images (55,838 total images)
  • 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
  • Abildgaardia (1)
  • Ascolepis (1)
  • Bacopa (1)
  • Blysmus (9)
  • Bolboschoenus (26)
  • Bulbostylis (89)
  • Calyptrocarya (2)
  • Carex (13532)
  • Caustis (1)
  • Cladium (25)
  • Cymophyllus (9)
  • Cyperus (2607)
  • Dichromena (22)
  • Diplasia (1)
  • Dulichium (42)
  • Eleocharis (1033)
  • Eriophorum (70)
  • Fimbristylis (180)
  • Fuirena (25)
  • Gahnia (3)
  • Hemicarpha (3)
  • Hyparrhenia (1)
  • Isolepis (5)
  • Juncellus (8)
  • Juncus (2)
  • Kobresia (10)
  • Kyllinga (40)
  • Lagenocarpus (1)
  • Lepidosperma (1)
  • Lipocarpha (64)
  • Luzula (1)
  • Machaerina (4)
  • Morelotia (2)
  • Oxycaryum (1)
  • Psilocarya (2)
  • Pycreus (13)
  • Rhynchospora (253)
  • Schoenoplectiella (1)
  • Schoenoplectus (104)
  • Scirpus (1409)
  • Scleria (120)
  • Trichophorum (2)
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