On a soggy wet Saturday morning, 17 participants gathered in the Jarrah Marri forest to look for Fungi at Glen Forest in the hills outside Perth, tucked away near the National Park near Mundaring Weir. Despite the very wet conditions, a total of twenty four fu...

Local parks are often the only places people see fungi. After 20 years of revegetation using 320 species of locally indigenous plants, Westgate Park has become a biodiversity hotspot thanks to the work of the Friends of Westgate Park (now Westgate Biodiversity...

While many people associate fungi with damp habitats of wetter forests, Australia’s vast desert areas have their own highly specialised mycota. As with desert fauna and flora, desert fungi are superbly adapted to cope with hostile conditions such as extreme ...

The new marine fungus – Annabella australiensis – is the latest of only 11 marine fungi to be identified in Australia – a hugely neglected area of biodiversity. Fungi are an essential, ubiquitous, and very poorly understood component of mar...

Are you fascinated by Australia’s biodiversity, it’s plants, fungi and creatures great and small? Did you know that thousands of new species are discovered and described by Australia’s taxonomists every year? Or that an estimated 70% of Australia’s spe...