**Code**: [WSP](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126986)
**Organization**: Washington State University
**Division**: College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
**Department**: Plant Pathology Department
**Location**: Pullman, Washington, U.S.A.
**Total number of specimens**: 75600
**Current status**: Active
**Date founded**: 1915
**Taxonomic coverage**: Parasitic and wood-decay fungi; smut fungi; rust fungi; powdery mildews; downy mildews; Xylariaceae, Diatrypaceae, and other pyrenomycetes worldwide
**Geographic coverage**: focus on Pacific Northwest; also broader western & northern US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and tropics/subtropics worldwide
**Important collectors**: L. M. Carris, Wm. B. Cooke, R. Durán, G. W. Fischer, D. Glawe, J. D. Rogers, C. G. Shaw, R. Sprague, W. N. Suksdorf
**Notes**: Updated Jan 2022 (contact info).
Important collections include: smuts (G.W. Fischer, R. Duran, L.M. Carris, K. Vanky); downy mildews (C.G. Shaw); powdery mildews (D.A. Glawe); Xylariaceae, Diatrypaceae, and other pyrenomycetes (J. D. Rogers & others); and fungi on grasses (R. Sprague), with a focus on the Northwest United States. Exsiccati of historical Northwest collectors including Suksdorf, Piper, & others are available, as well as original sets of Fungi Columbiani (E. & E., Bartholomew) and North American Fungi (Ellis & Everhart). Collections from the whole USA, Canada, the UK, Austria, Germany, Finland, Romania & E. Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan & SE Asia, Russia, and New Zealand are also well represented.
\*\*\*PLEASE NOTE: Correspondence/parcels sent by private carrier should use the above given mailing address; if shipping via USPS please address to: PO Box 646430, Pullman WA 99164-6430. Thank you!
**Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-06-30
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