Identification of fungi to the species level has some challenges because of great diversity in
morphology and ecology. Therefore, developing an efficient species recognition system …

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

This article is the tenth series of the Fungal Diversity Notes, where 114 taxa distributed in
three phyla, ten classes, 30 orders and 53 families are described and illustrated. Taxa …

Family Cortinariaceae currently includes only one genus, Cortinarius, which is the largest
Agaricales genus, with thousands of species worldwide. The species are important …

In this review, I explore the pervasive but underappreciated role of local adaptation in fungi.
It has been difficult historically to study local adaptation in fungi because of the limited …

Abstract Agaricomycetes includes ca. 21,000 described species of mushroom-forming fungi
that function as decayers, pathogens, and mutualists in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats …

Different distance-based threshold selection approaches were used to assess and compare
use of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region to distinguish among 901 Cortinarius …

Bipolaris species are known to be important plant pathogens that commonly cause leaf spot,
root rot, and seedling blight in a wide range of hosts worldwide. In 2017, complex …

So far approximately 144,000 species of fungi have been named but sequences of the
majority of them do not exist in the public databases. Therefore, the quality and coverage of …

Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C.
lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran …