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Here is some basic data for New Zealand species of Russula, together with a preliminary key.

Pat Leonard and I have been working on a revision of New Zealand species of Russula, Lactifluus and Lactarius for a number of years. That work is close to completion and a manuscript describing the new species is in preparation. We are conscious the work has taken much longer than expected, and so we present a trial key here.

Jerry Cooper & Pat Leonard

This is a long and low resolution PDF file of a phylogenetic tree of the main agaric groups. I used the data extracted from GenBank used in this publication: Matheny PB et al (2006) Major clades of Agaricales: a multi-locus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia, 98: 982–995.  I generated  a  Maximum Likelihood tree using 18s (274 sequences), LSU (389 sequences), ITS1-5.8-ITS2 (389 sequences), RPB1 (147 sequences), and RPB2 (138 sequences).

This is a very preliminary attempt to enumerate some of the New Zealand species of Mycena.

A preliminary re-assessment of the names applied to powdery mildews in New Zealand, and their hosts
​Jerry Cooper, August 2013

Brief notes on two uncommon powdery mildews in New Zealand

Jerry Cooper, August 14th, 2103

Pat Leonard and I describe three new species of foetid Gymnopus in New Zealand

July 2013

A sequence analysis of a Coprosma leaf spot, and a Sea Stcok leaf spots, produced some intruiging results.

This is a copy of a presentation I gave at the 2013 Matawai Foray Colloquium. It includes snippets of results from analsysing sequence data generated from FUNNZ collections over the last few years. It includes notes on some introduced and native groups of Boletes and Agarics.

A list of fungi from my garden - and why I have a list.

Jerry Cooper, January 4th, 2013

Agrocybe parasitica and related species

Jerry Cooper, December 15th, 2012