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About the data
All records come from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), a free, open network of museums, herbaria and naturalist projects.
Citation: GBIF.org (2026-10-27) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.23n6eg
What's included
- Country: United States. Class: Agaricomycetes (mushrooms, shelf fungi, polypores).
- Only records with coordinates and no flagged location problems.
- Licenses: CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only. Non-commercial (CC BY-NC) records are excluded.
- 1,139,963 records in the download; 1,128,093 fall inside a US county boundary (U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundaries).
- County pages need at least 100 records; species pages need at least 30 US records.
Licenses in the download: CC0_1_0: 599,491, CC_BY_4_0: 540,472
Each record keeps the credit and license chosen by its publisher. Full dataset credits are listed at the DOI above.
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