OA journal for the kingdom Fungi. Taxonomic / ecological data on any taxon of any geological age from around the world. Published by @Pensoft via @ARPHAplatform
🕸️ A surprising variety of fungi was recently discovered living on spider webs in Thai rice fields, demonstrating that these silk structures can be used as natural collectors of environmental data.
➡️ Our blog post: https://t.co/CuhuHZ8afp
➡️ Full study: https://t.co/rTg0cue2KS
🌿 That’s a wrap on the 11th Conference of the European Committee for the Conservation of Bryophytes in Cagliari!
🏆 Huge congratulations to Dr. Alberto Aleffi for winning Pensoft Publishers' Best Oral Presentation competition at the event.
🔬 Two new wood-decaying fungal species, Resupinatus tropicus and Scopuloides hainanensis, have been discovered in Hainan, China.
🍄 Full descriptions, illustrations, and genetic analyses are provided alongside updated identification keys for both genera: https://t.co/mdBAsgxI70
🪵 The potential habitat of Xylobolus subpileatus, a medically and ecologically valuable wood-rotting fungus, has been mapped across past, present, and future timelines using climate modelling.
➡️ Find out more: https://t.co/4BxB98164f
🍄 The long-debated merger of the mushroom genus Chamaemyces into Lepiota has been definitively confirmed!
🔬 Additionally, two new East Asian species have been identified and described in this study: https://t.co/TwgiGI1oWk
Five new species of Trichoderma fungi have been discovered and described from decaying wood in China based on structural and molecular data.
➡️ Find out all about them: https://t.co/0yEeENUDWz
🍄 Three new species of wood-decaying fungi have been discovered and described from the Hainan, Guangxi, and Guizhou provinces of southern China: Distoseptispora linchunlingensis, D. xinganensis, and Kirschsteiniothelia guiyangensis.
➡️ Read more: https://t.co/ZI0OZMfxHU
🍄 Four new wood-inhabiting fungal species have been discovered and described from southwestern China.
🧬 Classification within the families Peniophoraceae and Stereaceae was confirmed after the specimens were analysed: https://t.co/omZNSRQhOt
🍄 A new fungal genus and species, Obovatispora polygonati, has been established after being collected from dead branches of the medicinal plant genus Polygonatum in Guizhou Province, China.
➡️ Learn all about it: https://t.co/cqY845RGlL
🍄 Two new fungal species, Inosperma nonggangense and Inosperma rufobrunneum, have been described from Guangxi, China, based on detailed physical assessments and multi-locus genetic analysis.
➡️ Find out more: https://t.co/iewX5CV2Ed
🎉 We are delighted to welcome Dr. Nimali Indeewari de Silva as a new Subject Editor!
➡️ Read more about her expertise in our latest news announcement: https://t.co/794zmdwz7o
🎋 Three new species of microfungi from the Cainiaceae family have been discovered within the bamboo forests of southern China.
🍄 Check out the full study to learn more: https://t.co/RKFhdvAVfZ
🍄 Hidden fungal diversity within Northeast China has been unveiled following the identification of seven new mushroom species across four different genera.
📖 Check out the full study to learn how this complex family tree was mapped: https://t.co/uNU692g24R
🔬 The first discovery of mushroom species from section Ochromarasmius in China has been reported.
🍄 Three new species from northern China were also identified within subsection Dumetorae: https://t.co/cP405xaIfy
#newspecies
🌱 A comprehensive taxonomic assessment of four key mushroom species on King George Island was conducted using an integrative systematic framework to resolve historical uncertainties amid rapid Antarctic greening.
➡️ Full study: https://t.co/6y9HU5oILM
🎋 Three novel species of bamboo-rotting fungi, Nigrochaete albobadia, N. ellipsoidea, and N. tenuis, have been discovered in the high-altitude forests of Yunnan Province, China.
➡️ Check out the full study: https://t.co/zuJpbIhTe5
🌲 Four new species of wood-decaying #fungi within the genus Resupinatus have been discovered and described from temperate-boreal #coniferous forests in Northeast China.
➡️ Find out all about them: https://t.co/bsbpflbqPb
🐛 Two novel species of insect-killing fungi, Pleurocordyceps luopingensis and Pseudometarhizium cangyuanense, have been discovered and described during field surveys in Yunnan Province, China.
➡️ Find out more about them: https://t.co/1CvKNn1TMg
🍄 Two new mushroom species, Entoloma fucatum and Entoloma pseudobrunneosquamulosum, have been discovered from subtropical China.
📝 A replacement name, Entoloma pseudotomentosum, has also been proposed to correct a misnamed species within the genus: https://t.co/J4UIwcaTFX