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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
  • Amerorchis (1)
  • Aplectrum (55)
  • Arundina (2)
  • Bletia (1)
  • Brachionidium (1)
  • Bulbophyllum (1)
  • Calopogon (24)
  • Calypso (9)
  • Cattleya (1)
  • Cleistes (1)
  • Cleistesiopsis (1)
  • Coeloglossum (10)
  • Corallorhiza (95)
  • Corymborkis (1)
  • Cypripedium (88)
  • Dactylorhiza (3)
  • Dichaea (1)
  • Epidendrum (4)
  • Epipactis (16)
  • Erythrodes (3)
  • Galearis (50)
  • Goodyera (77)
  • Habenaria (13)
  • Hexalectris (2)
  • Isotria (7)
  • Lepanthes (1)
  • Liparis (135)
  • Listera (7)
  • Lockhartia (1)
  • Ludisia (2)
  • Malaxis (6)
  • Maxillaria (1)
  • Neottia (2)
  • Oeceoclades (5)
  • Oncidium (1)
  • Orchis (2)
  • Piperia (2)
  • Platanthera (185)
  • Pleurothallis (3)
  • Pogonia (11)
  • Ponthieva (2)
  • Scaphyglottis (2)
  • Schrankia (1)
  • Spathoglottis (5)
  • Spiranthes (271)
  • Stelis (1)
  • Tipularia (34)
  • Triphora (17)
  • Vanilla (2)
  • Zeuxine (11)
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