The genomes of fungi provide an important resource to resolve issues pertaining to their taxonomy, biology, and evolution. The genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, a Fusarium circinatum variant,...
Authors: Magriet A. van der Nest, Lisa A. Beirn, Jo Anne Crouch, Jill E. Demers, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Lieschen De Vos, Thomas R. Gordon, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Kershney Naidoo, Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez, Danielle Roodt, Quentin C. Santana, Stephanie L. Slinski, Matt Stata, Stephen J. Taerum, P. Markus Wilken…
In the new bioeconomy, fungi play a very important role in addressing major global challenges, being instrumental for improved resource efficiency, making renewable substitutes for products from fossil resourc...
Three Nomenclature Sessions were convened during the 10th International Mycological Congress (IMC10) in Bangkok on 3–8 August 2014. In addition a Questionnaire was given to all delegates. This Report reviews and ...
Authors: Scott A. Redhead, Vincent Demoulin, David L. Hawksworth, Keith A. Seifert and Nicholas J. Turland
The Saprolegnia-Achlya clade comprises species of major environmental and economic importance due to their negative impact on aquaculture and aquatic ecosystems by threatening fishes, amphibians, and crustaceans....
Authors: Mónica M. Steciow, Enrique Lara, Christophe Paul, Amandine Pillonel and Lassaad Belbahri
A survey of freshwater ascomycetes conducted along an elevational gradient in Perú in the Districts of Cusco, Junín, and Madre de Dios yielded specimens of Cancellidium applanatum, Cordana abramovii, Sporoschisma...
Authors: Steven E. Zelski, Julia A. Balto, Christine Do, Huzefa A. Raja, Andrew N. Miller and Carol A. Shearer
Authors: Janet Jennifer Divinagracia Luangsa-ard, John W. Taylor, Conrad L. Schoch, Aída Vasco-Palacios, Ana Esperanza Franco-Molano, John Dearnaley, Calum Wilson, Robert Tegg and Vincent Robert
Based on several collections from Italy, a detailed description (including also macrophotographs, microphotographs, and drawings) of the morphological characters of the poorly known Pluteus variabilicolor, origin...
Species of Sphaerellopsis (sexual morph Eudarluca) are well-known cosmopolitan mycoparasites occurring on a wide range of rusts. Although their potential role as biocontrol agents has received some attention, the...
Authors: Thippawan Trakunyingcharoen, Lorenzo Lombard, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Ratchadawan Cheewangkoon, Chaiwat Toanun, Acelino C. Alfenas and Pedro W. Crous
Cercosporoid fungi (formerly Cercospora s. lat.) represent one of the largest groups of hyphomycetes belonging to the Mycosphaerellaceae (Ascomycota). They include asexual morphs, asexual holomorphs, or species w...
Authors: Uwe Braun, Pedro W. Crous and Chiharu Nakashima
Interactive identification keysforAustralian smutfungi (Ustilaginomycotina and Pucciniomycotina, Microbotryales) and rust fungi (Pucciniomycotina, Pucciniales) are available online at
Authors: Roger G. Shivas, Dean R. Beasley and Alistair R. McTaggart
The morphologically diverse genus Ceuthospora has traditionally been linked to Phacidium sexual morphs via association, though molecular or cultural data to confirm this relationship have been lacking. The aim of...
Authors: Pedro W. Crous, William Quaedvlieg, Karen Hansen, David L. Hawksworth and Johannes Z. Groenewald
Salt mines represent an extreme environment with hypersaline conditions, complete darkness, and low nutrient availability. The diversity of filamentous fungi in such habitats is largely unknown. Eight strains ...
Authors: Katrin Greiner, Derek Peršoh, Alfons Weig and Gerhard Rambold
To ensure a stable platform for fungal taxonomy, it is of paramount importance that the genetic application of generic names be based on their DNA sequence data, and wherever possible, not morphology or ecolog...
Authors: Pedro W. Crous, Alejandra Giraldo, David L. Hawksworth, Vincent Robert, Paul M. Kirk, Josep Guarro, Barbara Robbertse, Conrad L. Schoch, Ulrike Damm, Thippawan Trakunyingcharoen and Johannes Z. Groenewald
The draft nuclear genomes of Diplodia sapinea, Ceratocystis moniliformis s. str., and C. manginecans are presented. Diplodia sapinea is an important shoot-blight and canker pathogen of Pinus spp., C. moniliformis
Authors: Magriet A. van der Nest, Wubetu Bihon, Lieschen De Vos, Kershney Naidoo, Danielle Roodt, Enrico Rubagotti, Bernard Slippers, Emma T. Steenkamp, P. Markus Wilken, Andrea Wilson, Michael J. Wingfield and Brenda D. Wingfield
Ophiocordycipitaceae is a diverse family comprising ecologically, economically, medicinally, and culturally important fungi. The family was recognized due to the polyphyly of the genus Cordyceps and the broad div...
Authors: C. Alisha Quandt, Ryan M. Kepler, Walter Gams, João P. M. Araújo, Sayaka Ban, Harry C. Evans, David Hughes, Richard Humber, Nigel Hywel-Jones, Zengzhi Li, J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard, Stephen A. Rehner, Tatiana Sanjuan, Hiroki Sato, Bhushan Shrestha, Gi-Ho Sung…
In advancing to one scientific name for fungi, this paper treats genera competing for use in the phylogenetically defined class Leotiomycetes except for genera of Erysiphales. Two groups traditionally included in...
Authors: Peter R. Johnston, Keith A. Seifert, Jeffrey K. Stone, Amy Y. Rossman and Ludmila Marvanová
With the changes implemented in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, fungi may no longer have more than one scientific name. Although determining which scientific name to use is bas...
His son John Corner (in litt.) has since informed me that the actual date of death was 14 September 1996 — just five months after he was presented with the de Bary award of the IMA.
Authors: Cherdchai Phosri, María P. Martín and Roy Watling
Under the rules for the naming of fungi with pleomorphic life-cycles adopted in July 2011, the nomenclaturally correct name for the fungus causing the current ash dieback in Europe is determined to be Hymenoscyph...
Authors: Hans-Otto Baral, Valentin Queloz and Tsuyoshi Hosoya
Thirty-eight Phaeoacremonium isolates collected from pruning wounds of tropical sandalwood in Western Australia were studied with morphological and cultural characteristics as well as phylogenetic analyses of com...
Authors: David Gramaje, Maela León, Ana Pérez-Sierra, Treena Burgess and Josep Armengol
Although Xylaria hypoxylon is one of the most familiar fungi of temperate regions, the basionym of the name, Clavaria hypoxylon of Linnaeus, has remained untypified. Here we assess the original five elements incl...
Authors: Marc Stadler, David L. Hawksworth and Jacques Fournier
During a survey for fungal pathogens associated with ferns in Brazil, a tar spot-causing fungus was found on fronds of Pleopeltis astrolepis. This was recognised as belonging to Inocyclus (Parmulariaceae). After ...
Authors: Eduardo Guatimosim, Pedro B. Schwartsburd and Robert W. Barreto
Lactarius s. str. represents a monophyletic group of about 40 species in tropical Africa, although the delimitation of the genus from Lactifluus is still in progress. Recent molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic r...
Authors: Dao Lamèga Maba, Atsu K. Guelly, Nourou S. Yorou, André De Kesel, Annemieke Verbeken and Reinhard Agerer
The 10th International Mycological Congress (IMC10), to be held in August 2014, will be the last before the 19th International Botanical Congress (IBC) scheduled for July 2017 at which changes in the ICN will be ...
Colletotrichum caudatum sensu lato is a widespread fungal pathogen of warm-season grasses. The fungus is easily differentiated from other Colletotrichum species through the presence of a unique filiform appendage...
Arctostaphylos pungens “Manzanita” is an important shrub in the southwestern USA, and northern and central Mexico. Manzanita bears apple-like fruit that is utilised for a range of edible products. Over the past t...
Authors: Onésimo Moreno-Rico, Johannes Z. Groenewald and Pedro W. Crous
The generic name Braunomyces (ascomycetes, asexual morph), with B. dictyosporus as type species, is described, illustrated and discussed, based on material collected in Vietnam on leaf debris of an unidentified b...
Two taxa, Hericium yumthangense (Russulales, Agaricomycotina) and Mycoleptodonoides sharmae (Polyporales, Agaricomycotina) are described as new to science from the Shingba Rhododendron sanctuary located in the no...
Authors: Kanad Das, Joost A. Stalpers and J. Benjamin Stielow
The Structural and Biochemical Database (SBD), developed as part of the US NSF-funded Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFTOL), is a multi-investigator project. It is a major resource to present and manage m...
Authors: T. K. Arun Kumar, Meredith Blackwell, Peter M. Letcher, Robert W. Roberson and David J. McLaughlin
A new arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus was found in Sierra Nevada National Park of Andalucía (Southern Spain). It forms intraradical hyphae, vesicles and arbuscles, typical characteristics of Glomeromycetes. Th...
Authors: Javier Palenzuela, Concepción Azcón-Aguilar, José-Miguel Barea, Gladstone Alves da Silva and Fritz Oehl
Tithonia diversifolia, a member of Compositae native to Central America that produces showy sunflower-like flowers, became an invasive weed in other continents after it was introduced as an ornamental. Little is ...
Authors: Alessandra F. de Fernandes, Bruno E. C. de Miranda, Lidiane L. Duarte and Robert W. Barreto
A new species, Gymnoascus verrucosus sp. nov., isolated from soil from Kalyan railway station, Maharashtra, India, is described and illustrated. The distinctive morphological features of this taxon are its verruc...
