Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium (TRTC)

The Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium (TRTC) was originally founded at the University of Toronto around 1887 under the name of “The Cryptogamic Herbarium”. The real development of the herbarium began in 1928 with the appointment of Dr. H.S. Jackson as head of the Department of Botany at the University of Toronto. Under Dr. Jackson’s leadership, later followed by Dr. R.F. Cain, and in association with their students, the Fungarium underwent a period of major expansion. Active development was continued by Dr. J.C. Krug and as a result, the herbarium has grown from about 500 collections in 1928 to its present holding estimated to be about half a million specimens. The collections and their responsibility were transferred to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in June 1996.
The TRTC is richest in Canadian material but has a worldwide representation. It holds many unique specimens (including approximately 1,000 Types) obtained from private herbaria, fieldwork by University of Toronto and ROM scholars, and also to some extent by local amateurs. An active exchange program with other herbaria has also added many exotic specimens to the collection, including 81 different sets of Exsiccatae from a variety of North American, European, and Asian sources.
Its present holdings make TRTC one of the largest and most significant fungal repositories in North America with a wide taxonomic representation that covers all major groups of fungi and slime molds. The Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium is still active and continues to grow its collections under the direction of Dr. Jean-Marc Moncalvo.

皇家安大略博物馆真菌馆（TRTC）最初成立于多伦多大学，时间可追溯至1887年，当时名为“隐花植物标本馆”。该标本馆的真正发展始于1928年，当时H.S. Jackson博士被任命为多伦多大学植物学系的负责人。在Jackson博士的领导下，继之以R.F. Cain博士的接任，并与他们的学生共同协作，真菌馆经历了一次重要的扩张期。在J.C. Krug博士的积极推动下，标本馆的规模从1928年的约500个收藏量增长至目前的约五十万份标本。1996年6月，标本馆的收藏及其管理权移交至皇家安大略博物馆（ROM）。

TRTC藏品以加拿大材料最为丰富，但亦具有全球性的代表性。馆内收藏了许多独特的标本（包括约一千件模式标本），这些标本来自私人标本馆、多伦多大学和ROM学者的野外工作，以及一定程度上来自当地业余爱好者。与其他标本馆的活跃交流计划也向藏品中增添了众多异域标本，包括来自北美、欧洲和亚洲的81套不同来源的干制标本。

目前，TRTC已成为北美最大的真菌收藏库之一，其广泛分类代表涵盖了真菌和粘菌的所有主要类群。皇家安大略博物馆真菌馆在Jean-Marc Moncalvo博士的指导下，依然活跃并持续扩大其收藏。