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British Fungi pages hosted
by CABI Bioscience
(mirrored site)
This site uses an underlying database to contain information
on names, synonyms, publications, descriptions, field observations,
distribution maps, pictures and keys of British fungi. The database
holds the links between all these data-elements making it easier
to manage the large amount of data. It also facilitates the cross-indexed
access provided by the links below. You must have 'cookies' enabled
on your browser to use this site correctly.
What's New (and not so new)
- July 2004
The database of records of British Fungi has now reached a significant
milestone: 1 million records.
With a certain amount of stage management ;-) record number 1000000
turns out to be Hydnellum
caeruleum. Unfortunately we do not have a photograph of this
spectacular fungus available so here are a couple from google
images:
©Raymond Boyer —
©George Barron
- The web site and database has moved servers again after new investment
by the BMS. The most significant change is that updating of the database
is now automatic
- English Names for British
Fungi
- A project
to redevelop this web site is being put together in consulatation
with all the relevant organizations in the British Isles (CABI
Bioscience, RBG Kew, RBG Edinburgh, NBG Wales, BMS, ABFG,
BLS, major local recording groups in the British Isles). Watch
this space for further development
- A page of links
to Local Recording Groups has been established - check if yours
is present. If it is, a reciprocal link would be appreciated
- If you are interested in submitting records to the British Fungi database
please contact Paul Kirk
- A dataset of some 83,500 records from Yorkshire has now been incorporated
- look at the VC stats to see
how your county is fairing. Thanks are due to Chris Yeates and Jerry
Cooper for making this possible
- The 9th Edition of
Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi has been published
by CABI Publishing and
the Checklist of British Fungi (GBCHKLST) now incorporates the
up-to-date classification adopted therein and is available here
for downloading
- Up-to-date information on the rust fungi
from the recently published Revised Checklist is here included
in the checklist with kind
permission from Douglas Henderson. The printed version, ideal
to take out in the field, is available from the BMS Office (see
the
official BMS web site for contact details). If you have any
new records which add to the distribution given here (not the
maps as these are based on records from the British Fungi Records
Database) I am sure Douglas would appreciate this information
which can be forwarded through the British Fungal Records Database
manager, Paul Kirk
- Over 2,500 distribution maps
of British fungi derived from the British Fungi Records Database.
Most of the larger fungi described in the popular guides should
be included
- The checklist of British
Fungi, which includes synonymy (most synonyms cited in British
literature), places of publication, habitat and distribution,
continues to be updated. The major contribution to this electronic
checklist is coming from the Checklist
of British Basidiomycota, currently being prepared by RBG
Kew. The new synonymy is being included as each genus is completed
but the distributional data, literature references and notes on
the taxonomy of the species recognized will not be included until
the completion of that project. However, the checklist now contains
synonymy from the most recent Lichen checklist together with some
notes on habitat and distribution, and it also contains data included
in the British Ascomycotina Checklist (Cannon
et al., 1985)
- A growing number of photographs
(over 300)
- You can search the British Fungi
Records Database (a.k.a. BMSFRD) and associated organism to
produce a list of names linked to summary collection data
- Grid references for published (literature based) records are
now externally linked to a detailed map of the collection site.
Zoom into detail at 500m. Some urban locations even have aerial
photographs
- Simple keys with species-data hot-links, e.g. Phellodon,
Peziza
The full database is not yet available on
the web. However, you may see what species have been recorded and
how many records there are for each species. You may also look at
full record details for published (literature based) records. There
are also over 2500 distribution maps and some statistical data on
the database.
This database contains information on the status of names of fungi
used in the British Isles. An increasing number of names have associated
information on place of publication and synonymy and other data.
The pages also provide an alternative route for getting to British
Fungi Records Database, map and picture data.
We would like to continue building a comprehensive database of
photographs/illustrations of fungi from the British Isles.
We would like to start adding keys to British fungi. Please let
Paul Kirk know if you have
a key to add.
CABI Bioscience (incorporating IMI) maintain a number of internationally
important databases. Here you can search, on-line, the world database
of fungal names (Index Fungorum; a.k.a. funindex), the taxonomic
hierarchy from The Dictionary of Fungi, 9th edition (2001), and
the Bibliography of Systematic Mycology.
MycoRec is a simple database package designed
specifically for recording fungi. It can generate a variety of reports
and labels and is capable of importing and exporting data from/to
the British Fungi Records database.
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