Agaricales of Costa Rican Quercus forests
A comprehensive, ongoing floristic study of the mushrooms (Agaricales) of montane oak forests in Costa Rica, including data on biodiversity and annotated color images. Keys to various genera are provided. Interactive keys to species of Leccinum and Phylloporus are available for users of DELTA software (q.v.).
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Agaricales of Java and Bali
Mushrooms occuring in Java and Bali are documented in these pages.
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Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands
Both native and introduced mushrooms are found on the Hawaiian Islands, the latter being especially plentiful. This site includes photographs and catalogs of Hawaiian agarics.
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Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles
This project aims to create a baseline inventory of the Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles, a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The study area includes Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and also some islands of the Lesser Antilles: St. John and the US Virgin Islands. These web pages include some nice photographs of mushrooms and their allies, and keys to selected genera. D.J. Lodge, T.J. Baroni, L. Ryvarden, and K.K. Nakasone are the principal investigators.
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Biodiversity of Mediterranean Lichens
This project has so far generated lichen checklists from Israel, Italy, Morocco, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
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Biotic Surveys and Inventories Support Site
This site sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden synthesizes information on biological inventory projects on all organisms, and provides links to individual biodiversity inventory databases.
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Boletes of California
An online version of The Boletes of California, by H.D. Thiers (1975). Includes keys and species descriptions. Made available through Myko Web (q.v.).
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Brazilian Fungi
A searchable database of over 2,700 species of fungi recorded in Brazil by A.C. Batista and his co-workers between 1950 and the late 1970s.
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British Lichen Society
The British Lichen Society provides information on membership, as well as on lichens in churchyards and on manmade surfaces, a list of lichens of the British Isles, and a key to Parmelia species.
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Butterflies of the Soil
The Great Smokies National Park Fungus ATBI (All-Taxa Biological Inventory) is affectionately called "Butterflies of the Soil." The web site documents its progress.
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Caliciales
Lichenized members of the Caliciales are treated on this site, which provides keys, illustrations, and taxonomic and ecological information, with a focus on Scandinavian representation.
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Centex Naturalist
This site includes information on the flora and fauna of central Texas, USA. Jerry Evans has developed a nice guide to noncrustose lichens growing on trees at the Miller Springs Nature Center, and is developing a treatment of the mushrooms, too.
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Checklist of Lichens of North America
T.L. Esslinger's cumulative checklist for the lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada is an important resource for American lichenologists. It includes lists of synonyms and some nomenclatural notes.
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Checklists of lichens
This site provides lichen checklists for many countries, worldwide. It is conveniently browsable via clickable maps.
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Collybia
A WWW adaptation of Roy Halling's 1983 monograph entitled "A revision of Collybia sensu lato in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada." The site includes an online key and index to taxa in Collybia, Rhodocollybia, and Gymnopus.
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Common tree diseases of British Columbia
This online guide to tree diseases includes a glossary, a host-fungus index, and numerous color photographs of diseases occurring in British Columbia, Canada.
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Comparative studies on the macrofungi of China and eastern North America
Qiuxin Wu and Greg Mueller document fungi which have disjunct distributions in China and eastern North America.
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Cornell Center for Fungal Biology
The CCFB is building a database of fungal diversity at the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve in Central New York, including images. The Preserve is owned by the Finger Lakes Land Trust.
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David Fischer's Web Pages
Dave Fischer's pages provide plentiful information on Dave's books and the mushrooms of northeastern North America. Here too you can find the Real Answers about mushrooms through his "Mushroom Basics" guide and some tall tales of mushroomery.
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Digital Exsiccate of Fungi
The developing Digital Exsiccate Pages provide thorough descriptions of genera and species of fungi with illustrations and keys to species. They are an impressive effort of the mycology program at University Tübingen in Germany and the University of Göteborg, Sweden.
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Edible LC
This page features mushrooms of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon (USA). A mushroom-picking primer is also provided by the author, Wes Stone.
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Euronature a.s.b.l.: Champignons
The mushrooms of Belgium are illustrated in this photogallery.
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Fox Ridge State Park Mushrooms: online key
This key to Central Illinois Mushrooms (USA) covers many macrofungi found in Fox Ridge State Park. It was written by Michael Kuo with beginners in mind, and includes illustrations and useful definitions of terms.
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Freshwater Ascomycetes and their Anamorphs
The freshwater ascomycete database is a compilation of water-dwelling unitunicate and bitunicate taxa, their substrates and distributions, and their anamorphic states, many species are illustrated by fine microphotographs. It is maintained by Carol Shearer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA).
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Fungi in Finland and in Sweden
Photo galleries of the mushrooms of Finland and Sweden.
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Fungi of Australia
A series of books documenting the fungi of Australia.
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Fungi of the Week
A different fungal image every week or so, photographed in Tennessee, USA.
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Fungimap
Fungimap is an Australian project aiming to improve our understanding of the distribution of native Australian fungi. The Fungimap website includes the newsletter, and provides information on target species and other fungi of Australia.
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Gruppo Micologico G. Bresadola (Italy)
This Italian society of mycophiles presents their beautifully illustrated newsletter, "Bollettino del Gruppo Micologico G. Bresadola - Nuova Serie" (see the special issues on Amanita and Xerocomus), and a lovely annotated image gallery of mushrooms that is a must-see.
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Gruppo Micologico G. Camisola (Italy)
This mycological society in Asti, Italy provides illustrated guides to species of Helvella, Peziza, Boletus, and Inocybe that occur in Italy (in Italian).
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Guia dels principals bolets de Menorca
Common mushrooms of Menorca are illustrated on this page.
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Instituto de Genetica Forestal
The fungi of Veracruz, Mexico are illustrated on this site. Technical descriptions of selected species form the series Funga Veracruziana (in Spanish. I particularly recommend the site for its images of stinkhorns (Phallales).
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John C. Tacoma Mushroom Slide Collection
Many, many scanned images of mushrooms and allies, from photographs taken by John C. Tacoma, 1968-1978. Maintained by the Library of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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Kenya Fungi
The Fungi of Kenya are the focus of this developing site from CABI Bioscience. Microfungi are a particular focus of this project, which includes a discussion of conservation issues.
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Key to British Basidiomycetes
Mike Walton's Key to common British basidiomycetes is a useful preliminary identification guide to genera of British mushrooms. Mike also offers an index to fungal illustrations published in the BMS journal "The Mycologist," and other useful tidbits.
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Key to Parmelia of Great Britain and Ireland
The British Lichen Society makes available this dichotomous key to the lichen genus Parmelia.
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Kisatchie Mushrooms
Mushrooms of the Kisatchie National Forest of central Louisiana (USA).
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Laccaria in North America
Greg Mueller's handsome monograph of the mushroom genus Laccaria in North America includes keys, phylogenetic trees, photographs, morphological and ecological information.
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Lactarius in Sweden
Lists and illustrations of species of the mushroom genus Lactarius that occur in Sweden (in Swedish).
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Lichen checklist of Japan
Lichens recorded from Japan since 1980 are listed on this page at the lichenology lab at Kochi University.
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Lichen Home Page
The Lichen Home Page serves a database of red-listed epiphytic lichens of Switzerland, complete with distribution maps.
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Lichen research at the Smithsonian Institute
This site provides a survey of lichen research going on at the Smithsonian Inst. (Washington D.C., USA). Among the included resources are checklists and keys for the lichenized fungi recorded from the Guianas; a nomenclator of names in the Parmeliaceae; a list of lichen types in the US National Herbarium; and a brief introduction to lichens.
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Lichens of the National Parks (USA)
A searchable listing of lichen species recorded from US National Parks is available through the Wisconsin Cooperative Park Studies Unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Malawi Fungi
The Fungi of Malawi are the focus of this developing site from CABI Bioscience.
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Mapping of Macromycetes in Norway
This project aims to provide information on the distribution and diversity of Norwegian macromycetes (larger fungi) in order to better understand and conserve fungal biodiversity.
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Matsutake mushroom news and information (Winema National Forest, USA)
The US Forest Service provides this interesting site on the matsutake mushroom harvest in Winema National Forest, Oregon (USA).
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Mushrooms and Toadstools of the Hampshire and Surrey borders
The Hampshire Fungus Recording group provides these images of mushrooms and their kin.
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Mushrooms in Greece
Many photographs illustrate the mushrooms of Greece--particularly those of the northeast near Xanthi.
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Mushrooms of North Carolina
Mycology students at Duke University (NC, USA) have prepared this site documenting the mushrooms of North Carolina. Their excellent photographs are available here.
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Mushrooms of Northeastern North America
A field guide to macrofungi by A.E. Bessette, A.R. Bessette, and D.W. Fischer (1997).
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Mycelium
This site is really a few different sites. One illustrates some of the macrofungi of Scotland; one describes the cultivation of mushrooms; and a third (luxgene) depicts bioluminescent organisms, including a few fungi.
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Mycena Page
Photographs and descriptions of some (mainly European) species of the mushroom genus Mycena are provided by Arne Aronsen.
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MykoWeb
An impressive site dedicated to amateur mycology, MykoWeb includes recipes, a listing of mushroom events, a useful bibliography of works on secotioid and hypogeous fungi. Identification resources include guides to the Fungi of California (USA), the Fungi of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and an online version of H.D. Thiers' 1975 monograph, California Mushrooms: A Field Guide to the Boletes. For a treat, see the scans of the color plates from M.C. Cooke's 1894 book, Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms.
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North American Lichen Project
The North American Lichen Project includes essays on lichen biology and the uses of lichens by people and animals, as well as excerpts and lovely photographs from the forthcoming book Lichens of North America, by I.M. Brodo, S.D. Sharnoff, and S. Sharnoff (Yale University Press).
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NZFungi: New Zealand Fungi
NZFungi is a database of fungal species reported from New Zealand. It includes a searchable interface for names, bibliographic references, collection data, and other attributes, and can generate distribution maps to illustrate its records. It is a handsome effort. It's worth finding the right web browser (a recent version of Internet Explorer) to fully access the data.
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Penn State Mycological Herbarium (PACMA)
Lists of names of fungi from Pennsylvania (USA) that are held in PACMA and several other herbaria (BPI, CM, PH) can be viewed online.
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Petit guide des Champignons d'Ile de France
This French site has nice images of common mushrooms found on l'Ile de France, and an introduction to mushroom hunting (in French).
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Pezweb
This fine site provides comprehensive information on the discomycete order Pezizales (cup fungi which have operculate asci). The nice synoptic key will help you identify your specimens, especially if you collected them in western North America.
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Plant Diversity of Central French Guiana
The site documents an ongoing project of the New York Botanic Garden on the flora of French Guiana. It currently includes preliminary information on pyrenomycetes and loculoascomycetes from Sabine Huhndorf, as well as information on plant diversity.
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PLANTS database
The PLANTS database from the National Plant Data Center is now accessible on the WWW. It includes the names and distributions of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens reported from continental North America excluding Mexico.
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Polypores of Sweden
A checklist of over 200 species of polypores found in Sweden with information on distribution, ecology and preferred substrate.
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Quoditch Nature Reserve
The biota of Quoditch Nature Reserve (U.K.) are documented on this site, which includes a selection of macrofungi.
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Ralph's Finest Fungi Fancier File
The good-tasting mushrooms of Michigan (USA) are spotlighted on Ralph Czerepinski's pretty web pages. Also to be found here are useful and intelligent reviews of various field guides to North American fungi. These pages have not been updated in recent months.
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Sclerotiniaceae and Rutstroemiaceae
These fine keys and information on the stromatic inoperculate discomycetes were prepared by Trond Schumacher and Arne Holst-Jensen. They focus on those taxa found in the Nordic countries.
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Slovenian Edible and Poisonous Wild Mushrooms
Mushroom hunters everywhere will appreciate these mushroom pages, which include fine images of "good, bad and ugly" mushrooms in Slovenia, as well as recipes and a mycological glossary.
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Spoorzicht Diemen
Mushrooms and other creatures of a small nature preserve in Diemen, the Netherlands.
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Studies in the genus Amanita
Rod Tulloss' pages on the genus Amanita include photos, keys, and technical descriptions of selected species from various parts of the world.
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Survey of North Illinois and Indiana Fungi
These webpages document an ongoing Survey of North Illinois and Indiana Fungi (USA), by John F. Murphy and Gregory M. Mueller. Background on the project and images of macrofungi are provided.
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Tayside Fungi and Mushrooms
Photographs of the macrofungi of Tayside, Scotland can be found on these pages.
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Texas Plant Disease Handbook
The Texas Plant Disease Handbook is a pretty comprehensive guide to plant diseases and the organisms that cause them.
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The F files
A lovely site devoted to New Zealand mushrooms, the F Files has lots of photographs to tempt you to visit New Zealand on a foray.
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The Hidden Forest
A wonderful online field guide to the mushrooms, lichens, and slime molds of New Zealand, with many fine photographs. (Formerly entitled "Forest Fungi").
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The Phlegmacium website
This yucky-sounding website is actually a lovely treatment of a subgenus of the very large mushroom genus, Cortinarius. Species of Cortinarius subgenus Phlegmacium in Denmark and neighboring Europe are named and illustrated on this site.
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Toadstools in the Netherlands and Switzerland
The mushrooms of Netherlands and Switzerland are illustrated in this lovely gallery of photos.
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Tricholoma in Denmark
A checklist and illustrations of species of the elegant mushroom genus Tricholoma in Denmark.
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Trichomycetes of Chironomidae
These pages by R.W. Lichtwardt and L.C. Ferrington document on ongoing project on the taxonomy and co-evolution of Trichomycetes (fungi that inhabit insect guts) and their blackfly hosts. Keys to trichomycete orders and genera, an extensive literature database, and an overview of trichomycete systematics.
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U.S. National Herbarium Lichen Type Specimens
The Lichen Type Specimen Register (includes lichens and bryophytes) at the Smithsonian Institution is searchable. A checklist of the lichenized fungi of the Guianas is also available.
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University of Arizona Lichens database
The lichen holdings of the University of Arizona herbarium (USA) are searchable online, along with information on the Sonoran Desert Lichen Flora Project.
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Virtual Field Guide
This site on fungi is part of a larger Virtual Field Guide that covers living things found in the U.K.
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