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A note from Jerry - Currently (Nov. 2012) all the entries here are mine. Don't let this put you off adding entries. I use this site to make available work I don't intend to publish (in this form at least) and which otherwise wouldn't be widely available but which might be of interest. The entries are not peer reviewed so please also use the feedback facility to stimulate discussion.

Mycological Notes 47: The Status of Fungal Species in New Zealand, 2026

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This report and accompanying spreadsheet provide a snapshot in time of the 8,000 documented fungal species currently thought to be present in New Zealand. The list contains the currently accepted name (according to the BiotaNZ website) together with many associated attributes. The attributes include the biostatus (as indigenous, endemic or exotic) and any formal conservation status under the IUCN Red-List criteria or the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS).

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New Zealand Sooty Molds

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New Zealand Sooty Molds

This is a presentation from 2025 colloquium of the FUNNZ foray.
It shows some preliminary phylogenetic work on the complex communities of sooty molds that are abundant in New Zealand forests, where they are associated with the sugary exudates of scale insects.

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Describing the colours of fungi

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This will only be of interest to those who need to describe colours (of fungi) in a formal way. When a new species is described, it is traditional to include colour information by referring to a standard colour chart. Modern publications may contain accurate full colour images of the species, but nevertheless there is still a role for these standard colour charts. The standards charts, like Methuen, Ridgeway & Munsell, are difficult to get hold of, and expensive.

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Mycological Notes 43: The Clavariaceae of New Zealand

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These notes are a summary of the present state of knowledge of the club and coral fungi in the family Clavariaceae in New Zealand. The last treatment of the group was back in 1988 and lots of things have changed since then. As usual for fungal groups we have a dominance of undescribed species and older names that have been used incorrectly. The notes are accompanied by a separate file containing the most recent multi-gene phylogeny for the group including sequences of New Zealand material.

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Phylogenetic Tree for the Gomphales

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The order Gomphales contains the colourful coral fungi in the genus Ramaria, as well as some of our unusual and uncommon species like the toothed Beenakia dacostae and the 'gomphoid' species of Gloeocantharellus. The coral fungi were last revised in New Zealand by Ron Petersen in 1988 (The clavarioid fungi of New Zealand. DSIR Science Information Publishing). That was pre-molecular era work and species concepts have changed over time.

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10 Years of Barcoding NZ Basidios

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This is a presentation I was to give at the 2023 Fungal Foray in Rotorua. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the foray. For over 10 years we have barcode-sequenced numerous selected collections to build-up our knowledge of the fungi of New Zealand. Many of those collections have come from fungal forays. The data contributes to a national reference database to facilitate sequence-based identification and provides the baseline data for describing new species and revising existing names.

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