Catalog of Types of the Illinois Natural History Survey Mycological Collections (ILLS)

Abstract

The Survey's mycological collection now contains approximately 300 type specimens, 800 Myxomycetes, 1,200 lower fungi, 10.000 Ascomycetes, 13,200 Fungi Imperfecti, 17,000 Basidiomycetes. and 5.000 lichens, for a total of 47.500 specimens. This catalog provides information for each type specimen on the binomial, the full name and initials of the authorities, the place of publication, the category of type, substrate or host, locality data, date of collection, collector, and accession number. The categories of type specimens follow the Botanical Code (Grueter et al. 1988. Article 7).