A huge congratulations to Katrina Syme from Denmark WA and Dr Teresa Lebel from the State Herbarium of South Australia for identifying and naming a new species of Cortinarius. Back in 2022, Fungimap awarded Katrina a grant to name new species of fungi in Sout...
Author: pezizo
Welcome to our new Fungimap Coordinator
Welcome to the new Fungimap Coordinator – Tamara Walton. Tamara is based in Tasmania and comes to us with a background in marine science, conservation and government relations having previously worked with CSIRO and Parks Australia. Tamara is an avid f...
Half a million fungi records and counting – By Tom May
Sometime around the middle of the day on Saturday 18 May 2024, the number of fungi observations for Australia on iNaturalist ticked over 500,000. I was hoping to see the half millionth record as it came in, but just on this one day, more than 900 observation...
Exciting news: Fungimap awarded large SA citizen science grant!
We are very pleased to announce that we were successful in securing a grant from the South Australia government as part of their Citizen Science Large Grants program! The funding is for a 3 year pilot project called “Fungi for Function: bushland health i...
Grant success!
We are thrilled to announce that we were successful in securing a $5,000 grant from the Wettenhall Environment Trust! This grant is to progress the groundbreaking work of nominating the critically endangered Tea-tree Fingers (Hypocreopsis amplectens) for Commo...