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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
  • Abelmoschus (12)
  • Abutilon (177)
  • Alcea (26)
  • Althaea (9)
  • Anoda (11)
  • Apeiba (2)
  • Bastardia (1)
  • Callirhoe (104)
  • Cienfuegosia (2)
  • Eremalche (7)
  • Fioria (2)
  • Gaya (5)
  • Gossypium (22)
  • Guazuma (3)
  • Hampea (1)
  • Helicteres (1)
  • Herissantia (5)
  • Hibiscadelphus (1)
  • Hibiscus (325)
  • Iliamna (24)
  • Kosteletzkya (6)
  • Lagunaria (1)
  • Lavatera (5)
  • Luehea (1)
  • Macrostelia (1)
  • Malachra (4)
  • Malacothamnus (3)
  • Malva (141)
  • Malvastrum (100)
  • Malvaviscus (9)
  • Malvella (4)
  • Meximalva (1)
  • Modiola (7)
  • Napaea (158)
  • Pavonia (30)
  • Peltaea (5)
  • Pseudabutilon (6)
  • Rhynchosida (1)
  • Sida (347)
  • Sidalcea (79)
  • Sidastrum (5)
  • Sphaeralcea (64)
  • Thespesia (1)
  • Tilia (3)
  • Triumfetta (1)
  • Urena (16)
  • Urocarpidium (2)
  • Waltheria (2)
  • Wissadula (6)
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