BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

(Macrofungi) (Larger Fungi)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #notes #refs #webs
Species Hylaeus quadricinctus (F.)             1
Family MORCHELLACEAE Rchb., 1834 (morels) 6            
Species Disciotis venosa (Pers.) Fr., 1893 (Bleach Cup)   10   1   1  
Genus Mitrophora Lév., 1846 (a genus of morels) 1 25 3 6   1  
Genus Morchella Dill. ex Pers., 1794 (morels) 3 15 25 6   1  
Genus Verpa Sw., 1815 (a genus of morels) 1 5 10 6      
Genus Peziza Fr., 1822 (a genus of cup fungi) 15 56 27 49   2 24
Order AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) 1909 6315 2705 2615 197 751 5293
Family CORTINARIACEAE R. Heim ex Pouzar, 1983 (a family of toadstools) 439 877 459 385 3 83 964
Family SCHIZOPHYLLACEAE Quél., 1888 (a family of basidiomycete fungi) 6            
Species Henningsomyces candidus (Pers.) Kuntze, 1893 (a basidiomycete fungus)   6 6 3   1 3
Species Henningsomyces puber (Romell ex W.B. Cooke) D.A. Reid, 1964 (a basidiomycete fungus)           1 1
Species Porotheleum fimbriatum (Pers.) Fr., 1818 (a basidiomycete fungus)             2
Species Rectipilus bavaricus Agerer, 1973 (a basidiomycete)             2
Species Schizophyllum amplum (Lév.) Nakasone, 1996 (a basidiomycete fungus)     3 7     6
Species Schizophyllum commune Fr., 1821 (Splitgill)   7 15 3   4 13
Family AURICULARIACEAE Fr., 1838 (a family of jelly fungi) 2            
Genus Auricularia 2 26 7 11   1 36
Family BOLETACEAE Chevall., 1826 (sponge cap toadstools) 65 502 204 115 8 62 191
Family GOMPHIDIACEAE Maire ex Jülich, 1982 (spike toadstools) 4 38 2 5   2 8
Family PAXILLACEAE Lotsy, 1907 (a family of bolete toadstools) 3 18   2   5 16
Family RHIZOPOGONACEAE Gäum. & C.W. Dodge, 1928 (beard truffles) 5            
Genus Rhizopogon Fr. & Nordholm, 1817 (beard truffles) 5 15   5   3 9
Family STROBILOMYCETACEAE (old men of the woods)           1  
Order CANTHARELLALES Gäum., 1926 (chanterelles, hedgehog fungi and some fairy clubs and resupinates) 29 138 31 67   12 151
Order DACRYMYCETALES Henn., 1898 (an order of jelly fungi) 19 16 23 29   3 75
Family HYMENOCHAETACEAE Imazeki & Toki, 1954 (a family of bracket fungi) 33 102 54 59   15 276
Order PHALLALES E. Fisch., 1898 (stinkhorns, cage and coral fungi, earthstars, truffles and fairy clubs) 54 152 28 26   30 160
Order RUSSULALES Kreisel ex P.M. Kirk, P.F. Cannon & J.C. David, 2001 (an order of toadstools) 292 692 231 344   81 1001
Order THELEPHORALES Corner ex Oberw., 1976 (an order of basidiomycete fungi) 59 78 32 60   22 146

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Field Mycology Journal
Courtecuisse, R. & Duhem, B., 1995 Mushrooms & Toadstool of Britain & Europe
Keizer, G., 1997 Encyclopedaedia of Fungi
Laessøe, T. & del Conte, A., 1996 The Mushroom Book
Orton, P.D., 1964 Notes on British Agarics II
RogersMushrooms: http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ Web Site/Page
Phillips, R., 1981 Mushrooms & other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe
Phillips, R., 2006 (A good number of species.) Mushrooms
Svrcek, M., 1983 The Hamlyn book of Mushrooms and Toadstools

General Works

Evans, S., 2003 Causing a stir with English names

(Macrofungi) may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with (Macrofungi):

fruitbody fruitbody is associate of larva Fannia canicularis - Latrine Fly, Small Or Lesser House-fly (Diptera: Fanniidae) van Emden, F.I., 1954
fruitbody fruitbody is associate of larva Fannia immutica - a lesser house fly (Diptera: Fanniidae) van Emden, F.I., 1954
fruitbody fruitbody is associate of larva Fannia monilis - a lesser house fly (Diptera: Fanniidae) van Emden, F.I., 1954

Macrofungi may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

References

van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae

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