This blog is about all things mycological, it is great for small articles that don't need to go into the member's reports section. Anyone who has signed up as a user of this website can post here.
A note from Jerry - Currently (Nov. 2012) all the entries here are mine. Don't let this put you off adding entries. I use this site to make available work I don't intend to publish (in this form at least) and which otherwise wouldn't be widely available but which might be of interest. The entries are not peer reviewed so please also use the feedback facility to stimulate discussion.
Tremellodendropsis species are common in New Zealand. They are relatively easy to recognise amongst the club fungi, not least because the fruitbodies are exceptionally tough. Discrimination of our species (mostly undescribed) requires microscopy.
I'll use this entry to upload, and occasionally update, various phylogenetic trees for New Zealand Basidiomycete fungi.
This article is a bit different to my usual Mycological Notes.
FUNNZ 2021 Colloquium Abstract: New Zealand wax-caps are distinctive and frequently observed fungi described in the genera Hygrophorus, Gliophorus, Humidicutis, Hygrocybe and ‘Camarophyllus’. They are especially common in wetter regions and in non-mycorrhizal forests. The number of described species has increased since Greta Stevenson’s initial survey in 1962, but their phylogenetic relationships have remained unstudied, and there has been no revision of the group since Egon Horak’s monograph in 1990 (which included 57 taxa).
The genera included here are Ileodicytyon, Anthurus, Aseroe, Clathrus, Pseudocolus, Claustula, Lysurus, Mutinus, Protubera & Phallobata.
The genera included here are Conocybe, Bolbitius, Pholiotina, Descolea, Descomyces & Timgrovea
The genera included here are Cystoderma, Squamanita, Cystodermella and Ripartitella.
