What are fungal species and how to delineate them?

KWT Chethana, IS Manawasinghe, VG Hurdeal… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Talaromyces and related genera (Eurotiales): An overview of families, genera, subgenera, sections, series and …

J Houbraken, S Kocsubé, CM Visagie, N Yilmaz… - Studies in mycology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Eurotiales is a relatively large order of Ascomycetes with members frequently having
positive and negative impact on human activities. Species within this order gain attention …

The numbers of fungi: Contributions from traditional taxonomic studies and challenges of metabarcoding

C Phukhamsakda, RH Nilsson, CS Bhunjun… - Fungal diversity, 2022 - Springer
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated using several different approaches. There is
somewhere between 2–11 million estimated species, but the number of formally described …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal diversity notes 1512–1610: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa

RS Jayawardena, KD Hyde, S Wang, YR Sun… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
This article is the 14th in the Fungal Diversity Notes series, wherein we report 98 taxa
distributed in two phyla, seven classes, 26 orders and 50 families which are described and …

[HTML][HTML] What are the 100 most cited fungal genera?

CS Bhunjun, YJ Chen, C Phukhamsakda… - Studies in …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

Fungal diversity revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 million species

DL Hawksworth, R Lücking - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - journals.asm.org
The question of how many species of Fungi there are has occasioned much speculation,
with figures mostly posited from around half a million to 10 million, and in one extreme case …

[HTML][HTML] Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 4

Q Chen, M Bakhshi, Y Balci, KD Broders… - Studies in …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper is the fourth contribution in the Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi (GOPHY)
series. The series provides morphological descriptions and information about the pathology …

Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa–2021

NN Wijayawardene, A Mešić, A Pošta, Z Tkalčec… - 2022 - fulir.irb.hr
This paper provides an updated classification of the Kingdom Fungi (including fossil fungi)
and fungus-like taxa. Five-hundred and twenty-three (535) notes are provided for newly …

Freshwater fungal numbers

MS Calabon, KD Hyde, EBG Jones, ZL Luo, W Dong… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
A comprehensive account of fungal classification from freshwater habitats is outlined and
discussed in the present review based on literature of biodiversity studies and recent …