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Botany and Plant Pathology
| The OSU Mycological Collection | ||
Photograph ©; G. Gulden |
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| Joseph Spatafora Botany and Plant Pathology |
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The OSU Mycological Collection is located on the first floor of Cordley Hall
on the campus of Oregon State University and is administered by the Department
of Botany and Plant Pathology. It is accessible from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday
through Friday and at other times by appointment. To make an appointment to
visit or use the collection, please contact the Director,
Dr. Joey Spatafora .
The OSU Mycological Collection contains approximately 75,000 lichenized and
nonlichenized fungi with an average 10 year annual growth of ~5%. The collection
is the only one of its kind in Oregon and is an important resource for the Pacific
Northwest. The OSU Mycological Collection is an active research and public service
collection that is used by mycologists, lichenologists, plant pathologists, and
forest ecologists associated with universities and state and federal agencies. It
is recognized as a global central repository for vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae
and contains the world's most complete collection of hypogeous fungi. In addition,
the OSU Mycological Collection houses the Survey and Manage fungal and lichen specimens
of the Northwest Forest Plan, a critical biodiversity resource of old-growth associated
organisms. A relational database has been developed for the OSU Mycological Collection. The goal of this effort is to have all specimens databased and accessible via the Internet in a searchable format. Approximately 50,000 specimens (2/3 of the total collection) including more than 1000 type specimens are currently entered into the database with continued ongoing population of new and existing collections. The database can be searched by organismal name, location, habitat or collector and provides complete label information for all specimens. If you do not find a specimen of interest in the database, but would like to know if it is in the collection and awaits databasing, please feel free to request a search of the collection by the herbarium staff. |
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