8b28b921-d46b-4881-8e40-4fdc54afbfd2 eng Shiva Devkota Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS) Research Officer 977 9841317188 Nepal shiva.devkota@gmail.com WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link 2026-01-29T09:52:12 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2021-04-08 Shiva Devkota Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS) Research Officer 977 9841317188 shiva.devkota@gmail.com Hari Prasad Aryal hp.aryal@cdbtu.edu.np Priyanka Shah priyankashah2336@gmail.com Devkota S, Prasad Aryal H, Shah P (2021): Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. v1.3. Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University. Dataset/Occurrence. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=mushroom_tuch&v=1.3 This occurrence database contains records of the mushrooms based on the herbarium specimens deposited at the Tribhuvan University Central Herbarium (TUCH) managed by the Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University Nepal. TUCH is registered in Index Herbarium in 2001 and posses over 22,000 specimens. Digitization has been a fast-growing process mostly in academic institutions for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. In the global north, collections deposited in the libraries, natural history museums, and herbaria have been more or less digitized than in the global south. Therefore, for the conservation of the biological diversity and associated knowledge, documentation, digitization and analysis of the specimens of the global south are crucial. Mushroom in the other hand is already the understudied and underprivileged group and demands further research and extension. This digitization project aims to fulfil that gap and contribute to the records of GBIF by digitizing mushrooms herbarium collections deposited in different herbaria in Nepal. The data produced after digitization will serve as the foundation of mycological knowledge of Nepal quantifying their availability at different deposition centres with every ancillary detail. Digitization of available fungi is also important for the mycologists working at different institutions to understand their ecology, distribution, phenology and possible multidisciplinary research plans; high school and university students to share and understand about such fungal groups; mycophilic communities around to understand and share their knowledge and importantly for the building interest on mushrooms. Furthermore, as Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, existing knowledge on mushrooms is crucial to understand the impacts of climate change on the less explored taxonomic group. Occurrence Biodiversity Flora Mushrooms Specimen Nepal HKH-BIF Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) eng biota Nepal in South Asia false 79.958 88.264 26.274 30.487 2000-07-14 2019-09-10 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=mushroom_tuch WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link HKH-BIF Portal This database is a part of a project funded by the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA; project no. BIFA5_023 to Shiva Devkota) program of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) supported by the Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan and co-funding came from the Himalayan Climate and Science Institute (HCSI), ForestAction Nepal and Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS).