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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
  • Acalypha (1261)
  • Acidocroton (1)
  • Actinostemon (3)
  • Adelia (1)
  • Alchornea (7)
  • Alchorneopsis (1)
  • Aleurites (6)
  • Amanoa (2)
  • Antidesma (2)
  • Aparisthmium (1)
  • Argythamnia (4)
  • Astraea (1)
  • Astrocasia (1)
  • Bernardia (6)
  • Bischofia (1)
  • Breynia (2)
  • Caperonia (3)
  • Caryodendron (1)
  • Chaetocarpus (2)
  • Chamaesyce (1066)
  • Chiropetalum (1)
  • Chrozophora (2)
  • Claoxylon (1)
  • Cleidion (3)
  • Cleistanthus (2)
  • Cnidoscolus (14)
  • Codiaeum (5)
  • Colubrina (1)
  • Conceveiba (2)
  • Croton (680)
  • Crotonopsis (150)
  • Dalechampia (3)
  • Dalembertia (3)
  • Dichostemma (1)
  • Dimorphocalyx (1)
  • Discocarpus (1)
  • Dissiliaria (2)
  • Ditaxis (3)
  • Ditrysinia (4)
  • Drypetes (28)
  • Duvigneaudia (1)
  • Eremocarpus (5)
  • Euphorbia (1146)
  • Excoecaria (1)
  • Flueggea (1)
  • Gelonium (1)
  • Glochidion (4)
  • Gymnanthes (8)
  • Hevea (3)
  • Hieronyma (1)
  • Hippomane (2)
  • Homalanthus (2)
  • Hura (2)
  • Hylandia (2)
  • Jatropha (11)
  • Klaineanthus (2)
  • Leptopus (9)
  • Mabea (3)
  • Macaranga (3)
  • Maesobotrya (1)
  • Mallotus (16)
  • Manihot (9)
  • Maprounea (2)
  • Mareya (1)
  • Margaritaria (4)
  • Mercurialis (1)
  • Micrandra (1)
  • Microstachys (1)
  • Monotaxis (1)
  • Pausandra (1)
  • Pedilanthus (2)
  • Petalostigma (1)
  • Phyllanthus (106)
  • Poinsettia (39)
  • Richeria (3)
  • Ricinus (9)
  • Sagotia (1)
  • Sapium (20)
  • Savia (1)
  • Sebastiania (6)
  • Securinega (10)
  • Senefeldera (2)
  • Speranskia (2)
  • Stillingia (14)
  • Tasmannia (1)
  • Tetrorchidium (6)
  • Tragia (28)
  • Triadica (2)
  • Trigonostemon (1)
  • Vernicia (7)
  • Whyanbeelia (1)
  • Zygophyllidium (1)
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