Fungal records from Costa Rica retrieved from national and international herbaria and culture collections - 2024

This dataset was created to explore Costa Rica’s fungal diversity through a dataset of over 78,000 specimens from national and international collections. The compilation of fungal records from Costa Rican collections was elaborated mainly by assessing: 1. the unpublished database from Herbarium Dr. Luis Fournier Origgi of the Universidad de Costa Rica (USJ), and 2. the online database of the Herbarium of the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR). For records of fungi of Costa Rica present in international collections, we searched the following databases: 1. the Mycology Collections Portal (MyCoPortal), 2. the Culture Collection of Fungi and Yeasts at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (KNAW), 3. the former International Mycological Institute fungal reference collection (IMI), and 4. the herbarium catalog of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (S). A complete dataset was built, including species name, supra-specific classification, herbarium source, type status, and when available, collector(s), collection date, locality, geographic coordinates, and ecological information. The complete dataset was standardized, and all higher taxonomic ranks were taxonomically standardized and updated according to Index Fungorum (2024). Records with names that were not validly published or that could not be found in Index Fungorum were included because most probably they refer to distinct species.