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Duke University Herbarium Fungal Collection

Specimen Records: 14,748
Media Records: 5,917
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-01-31

The Duke Fungal Herbarium was established by Duke mycologist Dr. Rytas Vilgalys in the early 1990's. The Herbarium consists mainly of Basidiomycete collections with special emphasis on Agaricomycetes. Specimens of Septobasidium, collected by Dr. Daniel Henk for his dissertation research, and dissertation research vouchers of truffles (Tuber) of Dr. Greg Bonito are accessioned in our holdings. Rich in new collections from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Newfoundland and Labrador, Columbia, South Africa and the United States. Significant collections from Papua New Guinea, France, Costa Rica and China.

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Name Rytas Vilgalys
RoleCurator of Fungi
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Name Rytas Vilgalys
RoleCurator of Fungi
Emailfungi@duke.edu
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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92.107
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92.107
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92.107
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92.107
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92.107
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91.972
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77.977
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70.084
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4.604
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3.044
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0.027
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0.014
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0.014
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i2
0.014
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