Welcome to the Mycology Collections data Portal

The Mycology Collections data Portal (MyCoPortal) is more than just a web site - it is a suite of user-friendly, web-based data access technologies to aid taxonomists, field biologists, ecologists, educators, and citizen scientists in the study of fungal diversity. The data are derived from a network of universities, botanical gardens, museums, and agencies that provide taxonomic, environmental, and specimen-based information. Using the Symbiota (https://symbiota.org) system of virtual online floras, these data are directly accessible to dynamically generate geo-referenced species checklists, distribution maps, and interactive identification keys, all linked with a rich collection of digital imagery documenting fungal diversity of North America.

Please join the Mycology Collections Portal as collaborators or regular visitors, and send your feedback to help@mycoportal.org.

Data Usage and Citation

News and Events

May 2025 - 10,813,057 occurrence records supplied by 172 different data providers have been integrated into MyCoPortal.
August 2020 - GLOBAL Bryophyte & Lichen Thematic Collections Network (TCN) NSF Press Release Project website
2018 - fdex: a simplified names database, primarily for projecting taxonomic hierarchy for fungal taxa.
August 2015 - NSF Press Release (#15-092) - NSF awards fifth round of grants to enhance America's biodiversity collections. The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems (NSF ADBC 1502735).
May 2015 - Microfungi Collections Consortium (MiCC) website now live
April 2012 - NSF Press Release (#12-082) - US National Science Foundation awards support for The Macrofungi Collection Consortium, a collaboration of 35 institutions in 24 states for the purpose of databasing some 1.4 million dried scientific specimens of macrofungi (NSF ADBC 1206197).
December 2013 - 1,546,358 occurrence records supplied by 31 different data providers have been integrated into MyCoPortal.
2013 - MaCC records are now part of the Zooniverse project Notes from Nature.