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Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS)

The herbarium contains 250,000 plant and 58,000 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.

Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium: Andrew Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu
Homepage: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/animals_plants/index.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 May 2020
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/content/dwca/ILLS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 19,774 specimen records
  • 19,771 (100%) georeferenced
  • 18,508 (94%) identified to species
  • 117 families
  • 327 genera
  • 1,634 species
  • 1,684 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics