News and Website changes
The Autumn foray programme is now nearly complete and starts this weekend. Jul 2008
The first issue of Field Mycology this year contains a review of Hypoxylon and related genera by R Anderson including a key to separate the genera. The common Hypoxylon multiforme is now transferred to a new genus Annulohypoxylon multiforme. There is an excellent web resource of European species by Fournier & Magni Mar 2008
Ganoderma resinaceum
There is new updated key to the Geoglossaceae in the spring edition of The Forayer as well as a guide to distinguishing Sarcoscypha coccinea from austriaca by John Roberts and Dave Shorten. Mar 2008
The fungal records database and distribution maps have now been updated to include all of the records from 2007. Feb 2008
Guidance from the BMS and Home Office on picking psilocin containing fungi is now on the document page. Mar 2006