INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR BOTANY: LOWER PLANTS

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Algae - Bryophytes - Fungi

General

• Botany 3100, Survey of Non-Vascular Plants, California State University Stanislaus, USA, Fall 1996

Algae

• Adirondack Aquatic Institute Phytoplankton Image Page by Michael R. Martin, Paul Smith's College, New York, USA.
• Algae of El Eden, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico by University of California, Riverside, USA
• Algae Gallery of the Chapman Lab, Department Plant of Biology, Louisiana State University, USA.
• The Algae Home Page of the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution
• Algae-L, listserv for phycologists
• Algaetech's Gateway to the Seaweeds of the Gulf of Maine. A comprehensive, one stop location for information on tne species, research, products, companies, agencies and regulations for the seaweed resource in the Gulf of Maine, USA.
• Algal Microscopy & Image Digitization Home Page. Bowling Green State University World Wide Web Center for Algal Microscopy & Image Digitization, USA. This Home Page has been created and is maintained by David W. Johnson, Department of Biological Sciences.
• An introduction to nongeniculate coralline algae by Derek W. Keats, University of Western Cape, Botany Department, South Africa.
• Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany
• Baltic Sea Algaline by Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Finland. The Finnish Institute of Marine Research delivers information on the phytoplankton in the Baltic Sea via Internet. The data consist of recordings made unattended on several ferries and information from various research institutes and environmental authorities surrounding the Baltic Sea. The information will be updated at least on weekly basis.
• The BIOVOL Home Page. BIOVOL is a DOS text-mode program (being generally well behaved in a DOS-window under Win3.1 and Win95) for calculating the volumes, surface areas, and surface to volume ratios of diatoms. In addition to five general diatom shapes, it also includes formulae for cylinders, spheres, and prolate spheroids.
• Brazilian National Catalogue of Strains - Algae, Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. The National catalogue presents algae from Brazilian culture collections.
• The British Phycological Society, UK.
• Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. - WWW version of: Silva, Paul C., Philip W. Basson, and Richard L. Moe. Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany, vol. 79. 1259 pp., 1 fig. 1996. --- Published records of species and infraspecific taxa of seaweeds from the Indian Ocean excluding the Red Sea. 3289 accepted names are included. The bibliography includes > 4000 references. Nomenclatural notes. Synonymies. Regional species lists.
• Check-list of the marine algae of the northeastern Atlantic.
• CCALA, Czechoslovak Database of Algae and Cyanobacteria, from Base de Bados Tropical Brazil. The online catalogue of algae and cyanobacteria is produced by the culture collection of autotrophic organisms at the Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Trebon. Descriptions of cyanophytes, algae, mosses, liverworts, ferns and duckweeds are included.
• Checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat (including heterotrophic protists) from the Department of Marine Botany, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
• Chlamydomonas Genetics Center at Duke University, USA. The Chlamydomonas Genetics Center is an NSF-sponsored project that serves as a central repository to receive, catalogue, preserve and distribute stocks of nuclear and chloroplast mutants of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and other Chlamydomonas species in which extensive genetic analysis has been done. The Center also maintains and distributes genomic and cDNA clones of Chlamydomonas nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial genes.
• COST 49 Phycological Directory, Ireland.Directory of phycologists, algae-related industries, culture collections and herbaria in Europe.
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), UK
• Cyanosite, Purdue University, USA. General Cyanobacterial Research Webserver.
• DIATCODE, coded diatom checklist. This list is based on the Coded Checklist of British Diatoms produced jointly by the Natural History Museum and the Environmental Change Research Centre and also includes (some) diatoms from other parts of the world.
• The Diatom Collection of the California Academy of Sciences, USA: CAS Diatom Collection Information, Diatoms Literature Database
• The DIATOM-L (maintained in Indiana, USA) is an electronic distribution list of researchers involved with diatom ecology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and other Bacillariophycean pursuits. Subscribe at listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu by sending a message: subscribe diatom-l your_first_name your_last_name.
• Dinoflagellates of Algoa Bay, South Africa by Eileen Campbell and Andy Smith
• European Journal of Phycology, UK.
• The Farlow Herbarium Diatom Catalog, Harvard, USA
• Filamentous marine cyanobacteria (Sven Janson)
• The Grass of the Sea: Phytoplankton. Prepared by Mahlon Kelly, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Virginia, USA.
• The Harmful Algae Page, The National Office for Marine Biotoxins and Harmful Algal Blooms, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA
• Home of the Fossil Coralline Algae (Corallinaceae: Rhodophyta) by Michael Rasser, Institute of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Austria
• Information pertaining to algae (Index Nominum Algarum demonstration, Indian Ocean benthic algae) by U.C Berkeley's University and Jepson Herbarium, California, USA.
• The International Seaweed Association
• IPPAS, from Base de Dados Tropical, Brazil. IPPAS is the culture collection of microalgae at the K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Journal of Applied Phycology gopher, UK
• Journal of Phycology Online, bi-monthly publication of the Phycological Society of America
• The Laboratory of Phycotoxins and Harmful Marine Substances, University of Nantes, France, ou Le Laboratoire phycotoxines et nuisances, Unite de recherche marine n° 11, Universite de Nantes.
• The Marine Flora of Bermuda
• Paleolimnology & Diatom Home Pages, Biology Department, Indiana University, USA. Web pages designed to be a central web node for paleoecologists and diatomists to locate useful data, programs, information, etc. and connect to other useful Internet sites.
• People's Use of Algae. Developed by Dr. Iain Taylor, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Phycologia. Published by the International Phycological Society, Phycologia is a bimonthly journal that serves as a publishing medium for information about any aspect of phycology.
• Phycological Newsletter. A publication of the Phycological Society of America.
• The Phycological Society of America, USA.
• Phycological Society of Southern Africa
• The Plankton Net. Marine Plankton Ecology and Biological Oceanography Homepage, University of Guelph, Canada.
• Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME), NERC Thematic Research Programme, UK.
• Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (Algae Aquaculture), McKown Point, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA.
• Redlisted Swedish Characeae, searchable database of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
• Seaweed Information Server - University College Galway, Ireland - ALGAE-L. ALGAE-L is a bulletin-board-type list to which you can subscribe if you are interested in any aspect of phycology. - Check-list of the Seaweeds of Britain, Ireland and Northern Europe. - Culture Collections of Algae. - Irish Seaweed, etc.
• SVCK-Liste der Sammlung von Conjugaten-Kulturen-Universität Hamburg (Germany). 30 years ago a culture collection of Conjugatophyceae was founded at the Institut für Allgemeine Botanik der Universität Hamburg (ENGELS & MIX 1980, MIX 1973). Up to now it maintains more than 400 strains. A list is presented publishing the relevant dates like collecting point, collector, culture media a. s. o.
• University of Texas, Algae Culture Collection, USA. A searchable database of the over 2,100 strains of algae in the collection, an order form, and related information.
• University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria (UTCC). A service collection of about 350 strains of mainly freshwater species and about 70% of these are unique to the UTCC.
• WFCC World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM)

Bryophytes

• A List of the Bryophytes of Kentucky, with County Distributions, from gopher at Cornell, USA. Flora Online issue no. 15, 1988, by A. Snider, S. M. Studlar & M. Medley.
• American Bryological and Lichenological Society. The American Bryological and Lichenological Society, Inc. is an organization devoted to the scientific study of all aspects of the biology of bryophytes and lichen-forming fungi and is one of the nation's oldest botanical organizations. Membership is open to all persons (professional and amateurs) with interest in these organisms.
• ARCTOA is a Russian bryological journal, published in Moscow University. - (in Russian/partly in English).
• Australian Moss Catalogue, searchable from the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG), Canberra.
• British Bryological Society, UK
• Bryological Societies and Working Groups, list by Uwe Schwarz, Germany. List of Bryological Societies and Working Groups, including informations about membership fee, contact persons (including email if available) and publications.
• The Bryologist. The Bryologist is devoted to the study of bryophytes and lichens, and is published quarterly by the American Bryological and Lichenological Society, Inc., Department of Biology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA.
• Bryology at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Information on bryological projects such as Moss Flora of Central America, Bryological Glossary, Bryophyte Names List (names of bryophytes interpreted as effectively and validly published according to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature), Index of Mosses, NSF PEET project on Bryological Systematics, database of bryological recent literature.
• Bryophytes Page at the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA:
• Checklist of Danish Mosses - Sphagnopsida, Andreaeopsida, and Bryopsida, by Gert Steen Mogensen, Gunnar Rylander Hansen, Henrik Elgaard Jensen and Mads Søren Dalsgaard. 
• Checklist of Japanese Mosses, important collections (liverworts of Shikoku, mosses of Shikoku) and moss type specimens from Herbarium of the Kochi University, Laboratory of Plant Taxonomy, Japan (KOCH).
• Checklist of the Mosses of North Carolina. Compiled by Lewis E. Anderson and Jonathan Shaw, Duke University, USA.
• Checklist of Mosses in Stuttgart. A checklist of mosses found since 1822 in the city of Stuttgart, SW Germany. Compiled by Uwe Schwarz, University of Stuttgart.
• Checklist of Wisconsin Bryophytes, Milwaukee Public Museum, Section For Botany, USA
• Eesti sammalde nimestik - Checklist of the mosses of Estonia. List made by Nele Ingerpuu, Aino Kalda, Leiti Kannukene, Heljo Krall, Mare Leis, Kai Vellak; gives also the Estonian names and a frequency estimate.
• Index of Mosses, Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, USA; gopher). The records in this Gopher Server contain information about bryophytes from the TROPICOS - MOST Database at the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) in St. Louis. The information comes from the bryophyte names authority files used for the Index of Mosses project. You can also search the Index of Mosses Bibliography and MOSTY, Missouri Botanical Garden Moss Types.
• The International Association of Bryologists (IAB) is an organization established in 1969 at the XI International Botanical Congress in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. The aim of the organization is to promote international cooperation and communication among bryologists, whether amateur or professional. This is achieved through sponsorship and arrangement of meetings and symposia that relate to the various aspects of bryology, and by IAB sponsored publications including The Bryological Times, the Bulletin of Bryology, and the Advances of Bryology. The Association also supports the publication of reviews, lists, software, and compendia.
• Limprichtia publishes bryological papers concerning Central Europe.
• Lindbergia is a journal issued by the Nordic Bryological Society and the Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society. Bryologists from all countries are invited to publish original research from any field of bryology.
• Mosses and Liverworts in Wales. Photos, distribution maps, literature refences, list of threatened species, and more. Maintained by Alan Hale, UK.
• Mosses of China from the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
• Mosses of the former USSR. The database contains an electronic version of the Checklist of mosses of the former USSR (Ignatov, M.S. & O.M.Afonina, 1992 ) with the latest additions and corrections. It is maintained by Dr. Michael S. Ignatov, Russia, as a personal database on a PC. New versions of the database will be loaded to FLORIN at DataX/FLORIN site every two or three months.
• New York Botanical Garden Catalog of North American Bryophytes.The New York Botanical Garden is in the process of cataloging its approximately 200,000 specimens of bryophytes from North America (north of Mexico). These records will be made available family by family, as cataloging is completed.
• North American Bryophyte Herbaria. The location and contents of the approximately 100 largest bryophyte herbaria in North America are summarized on a new web page available from the New York Botanbical Garden North American Bryophyte Catalog web site. The herbaria can be searched by acronym or by clicking a point on a distribution map. Each bryophyte herbarium is linked to the on-line Index Herbariorum database for current contact information.
• Swedish Mosses. Moss pictures and other data by K.R. Lundborg, Sweden.
• Tropical Bryology. An international journal on the biology of tropical bryophytes and lichens.
• University of Michigan Bryophyte and Lichen Collection Liverwort Database, USA.
• The World's Most Endangered Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), B. C. Tan, P. Geissler and T. Hallingback Committee on Endangered Bryophytes IUCN Bryophyte Specialist Group/International Association of Bryologists. The official list of world's most endangered bryophytes was first published by IAB/IUCN in The Bryological Times (no. 77), 1994, with the purpose of generating publicity to promote bryophyte conservation on a worldwide basis. - From the server of the Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Fungi

• Actinomycetes - Streptomyces Internet Resource Center, University of Minnesota, USA
• The Agaricales of Costa Rican Quercus Forests is a biotic survey project funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S.A.I.D. that has been documenting the diversity, distribution, and ecology of agarics and boletes (i.e., mushrooms) and other macrofungi associated with Neotropical oak forests.
• Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands, USA.
• Agromycète (France). L'univers des champignons vu par des élèves de l'Agro: entomopathologie, phytopathologie, classification... et des rubriques pratiques. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus sur ces organismes à mi-chemin entre animaux et végétaux.
• American Bryological and Lichenological Society. The American Bryological and Lichenological Society, Inc. is an organization devoted to the scientific study of all aspects of the biology of bryophytes and lichen-forming fungi and is one of the nation's oldest botanical organizations. Membership is open to all persons (professional and amateurs) with interest in these organisms.
• The Anamorph Information Network, Canada. AnaNet is an abbreviation for "Anamorph Information Network". This is an informal affiliation of approximately 150 scientists and students world-wide who share a common interest in either the taxonomy of anamorphic fungi or in identifying these fungi. The concept of the network is to share information and tools that facilitate these tasks.
• Arizona State University Lichen Herbarium, Tempe, USA
• Ascomycete Research group, Oslo, Norway (ARON)
• Asociación Micológica de las Sierras Subbéticas (Spain)
• La Banque Européenne des Glomales (BEG) / European Bank of Glomales (UK). The mission is to enhance, through pan-european collaboration, efficiency of research into the conservation and biodiversity of endomycorrhizal fungi, given their critical role in the survival of plants in most ecosystems.
• Beitrag zur Flechtenflora des Kreises Mittweida (Listing of lichens found in the district of Mittweida, Saxony, Germany), by Uwe Schwarz.
• Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms (BCCM). The BCCM™ is a consortium of four complementary research-based culture collections financed by the Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs. Over 45.000 well-documented and authenticated strains of bacteria, filamentous and yeast fungi (including the most important test and control strains) and over 1.300 plasmids are readily deliverable by BCCM™ on a world-wide basis.
• Biodiversity of Mediterranean Lichens. This is an international project of the OPTIMA commission for lichens on the biodiversity of lichens in the Mediterranean.
• Boston Mycological Club, USA
• Botanical Museum, University of Oslo, Norway: The Lichen Herbarium. Information on the collections, checklist of Norwegian lichens, their vernacular names, type specimens etc.
• Brian McNett's Mycology On-Line FAQ. Gopher, USA
• British Lichen Society
• The British Mycological Society, UK.
• Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Branch. The Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures(CCFC) currently holds 10,500 strains of fungal cultures representing about 2,500 species.
• The Cantharellus Research Group, Sweden
• Catalog of the Lichens of Mexico by Bruce D. Ryan, Thomas H. Nash III & Maria de los Angeles Herrera Campos.
• Catalonia Mushrooms: La web dels bolets (Spain)
• Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS), Baarn & Delft, The Netherlands. Baarn & Delft, The Netherlands. One of the world's largest service and research collections of filamentous fungi and yeasts. The collection comprises about 35,000 strains. Research of the CBS concentrates on taxonomy and phylogeny of selected groups throughout the Kingdom of Fungi. CBS also offers services like identification, contract research, supply of cultures.
• Checklist of Japanese Lichens recorded in floral studies since 1980, from the Department of Botany, Kochi University, Japan.
• Clamp Connexions, Howard Szafer, Canada. A conference devoted to the concerns of the amateur mycologist.
• CNYMS, Central New York Mycological Society Newsletter, Mycology, Mushrooms, and Club News, USA.
• Culture Collection of Basidiomycetes (CCBAS), Prague, Czech Republic. CCBAS is a member of the Federation of Czechoslovak Culture Collections and the World Federation of Culture Collections and it is listed in the World Center for Culture Collections of Microorganisms. The collection was founded in the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1959. In summer 1997 it contained 630 strains belonging to 253 species (115 genera) and is being continually supplemented by exchanges, picking-up, purchasing, and preperation of mutant isolates. Most of the cultures belong to orders Agaricales, Aphyllophorales and Gasterales.
• A Cumulative Checklist for the Lichen-forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of the Continental United States and Canada. This checklist of North American Lichens, is updated every several months by Dr. Theodore L. Esslinger, Department of Botany, North Dakota State University, USA.
• Daldinia: a key to species. This key is based on: Ju, Y.-M., J. D. Rogers, and F. San Martín. 1997. A revision of the genus Daldinia. Mycotaxon 61: 243-294.
• Danish Mycological Society (Foreningen til Svampekundskabens Fremme). On this homepage you can find information on the society, its activities and publications, including on-line indexes of articles and illustrations from the journal "Svampe", the Danish red list of fungi and information on the book series "Fungi of Northern Europe". Some of the pages containing more locally oriented information can only be found in the Danish version. Includes, for instance, the Danish Red List of Fungi and info on the journal "Svampe".
• Database LICHEN. Red List of the epiphytic lichens of Switzerland.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie - The German Mycological Society, in German and partly in English; including the tables of contents of Zeitschrift für Mykologie (Journal of the German Mycological Society).
• Dictionary of the Fungi. You may search for any generic name appearing in the latest edition of the Dictionary and find its systematic position in the accepted family/order/class hierarchy along with indication of synonymy.
• Dictyostelium WWW Server, USA The purpose of this site is to facilitate communication between researchers involved in studies of Dictyostelium discoideum, Polysphondylium and similar organisms.
• Digital Exsiccate of Fungi, a joint project of the universities of Tübingen (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden).
• Discover Mushrooms - A Mushroom Identification Program. A commercial program, designed to aid in the identification of wild mushrooms to the species level. It accomplishes this in two ways; (1) it forces the user to think about all of the possible attributes of that type of mushroom; (2) it searches the entire database and compares the user entered description with database entries and assigns a probability to each species.
• Duke Mycology: Mushrooms of North Carolina, USA
• Econet's Mycology Archive (gopher), USA.
• Entomopathogenic Fungi Database by CENARGEN, National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazil.
• Erik Acharius' lichen types, Swedish Museum of Natural History
• Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Forest Mycology and Mycorrhiza Research Team, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. The Forest Mycology Team, located at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon, is conducting extensive research on the biology and ecology of forest fungi in Pacific Northwest forest ecosystems. The Team is composed of personnel from Oregon State University, Department of Forest Science and the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
• Freshwater Ascomycete Database, maintained in the University of Illinois, USA, contains the names of ascomycete species reported from freshwater habitats worldwide. Also included are: (1) taxonomic placement at the ordinal level, (2) substrates, (3) geographical occurrences, and (4) literature citations for species occurrences. The database is divided into two parts, one for unitunicate and one for bitunicate taxa. The database will be updated at six month intervals.
• Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Department of Microbiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.
• Fungi and Other Native Flora of Western Kentucky. A collection by Michael Thompson; fungi, ferns, lichens and other interesting plants of western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southeast Missouri and western Tennessee.
• The Fungi Imperfecti from University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA; a collection of pictures available for the mycologic "net" community to browse or use as an aid for identification.
• Fungi Images on the Net, Flemming V. Larsen, Denmark. A page with links to fungi images in the Internet.
• Fungi Perfecti
• Fungi photos by R.A.Chilton, Chester, UK
• Fuskey - Fusarium Interactive Key, Canada
• Gruppo Micologico Naturalistico Dopolavoro Ferroviario di Ancona, Italy
• Home page of Estonian lichenology, maintained by Ave Suija and Ants Aader, University of Tartu, Estonia.
• ICCL Preliminary Global Red List of Lichens
• Igor Malcevski's Home Page (a member of the Snohomish County Mycological Society (SCMS), in the state of Washington, USA). With information on the SCMS and its newsletters, links to mycological web sites etc.
• Illinois Mycological Association, USA. The basic purpose of the Illinois Mycological Association is to promote mycology as an avocation among its members and the general public. This purpose shall be served by meetings and other means of communication, by group field experiences, and by projects designed to enhance amateur mycology in Illinois.
• Index to the Index of Fungi, USDA's Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. This is an index to the Index of Fungi compiled by the International Mycological Institute. You can quickly locate the issue and the page number for a particular fungus but you will still need to refer to the printed copy of the Index of Fungi to get the full citation. This index covers volumes 1 to 8 (1920-1939) of Petrak's Index of Fungi and volumes 1-4 (1940-1980), and 6 (1988-1995) of the Index of Fungi.
• International Association of Lichenologists (IAL). Information collected by Cliff Smith, Hawaii, USA.
• The International Culture Collection of Arbuscular and VA Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM), West Virginia University, USA.
• The International Mycological Association (IMA). The International Mycological Association (IMA) founded in 1971 represents the interests of 20,000 mycologists worldwide. It is a non-profit making organization, the purpose of which is the encouragement of mycology in all its branches. The International Mycological Association constitutes the Section for General Mycology of the International Union of Biological Societies (IUBS), the primary biological component of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).
• International Mycological Institute, London, UK.
• International Society for Mushroom Science
• The Internet Guide to Myxomycetes
• Jozef Motyka: Lichenes. Monograph of European species of the Lecanoraceae family, from Lublin, Poland. Professor Motyka died in 1984, and his daughter Maria Motyka-Zglobicka has made available information on his work.
• Key to common British basidiomycetes, by Mike Walton, UK
• Korea Actinomycetes Network. The Korea Actinomycetes Server is established to exchange information on Actinomycetes around the world. The Server is directed by Korean Research Group for Actinomycetes and maintained by the Myongji BioServer at the Dept of Biological Science, Myongji University, Yongin, Korea.
• Latin American Association for Mycology
• LIAS. A DELTA-based Information and Data Storage System for Lichenized and lichenicolous Ascomycetes edited by Botanische Staatssammlung München.
• Lichen determination keys available on internet . A survey of determination keys for lichens, available on the Internet. Maintained by Harrie Sipman, Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum, Free University, Berlin, Germany.
• Lichen Informations System, Salzburg, Austria
• Lichenland - Fun with Lichens from Oregon State University, USA
• Lichenologists in Baltic and Nordic Countries, by Sampsa Lommi, University of Helsinki, Finland.
• Lichenologists' and Mycologists' E-mail Address List. This list is maintained by Botanische Staatssammlung München, Germany.
• The Lichens Page by Tatsuya Okamoto, Kochi University, Japan
• LICHENS-L (send mail "subscribe LICHENS-L Your Name" to listproc@hawaii.edu). An electronic discussion group devoted to lichens.
• Linköpings svampklubbs hemsida, Sweden. Mycological society of the town of Linköping (in Swedish).
• List of Fungi Reported from Brazil from Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. This database consists of a list of Brazilian fungi recorded by the Brazilian mycologist A.C. Batista and his co-workers from the Institute of Mycology of the Recife University. The data source was the publication "Publicacoes do Instituto de Micologia da Universidade de Recife", which comprises 697 individual issues, from the early 50's to 70's. Altogether there are 7,826 records of Brazilian fungi, representing 2,770 binomials and trinomials in over 1,050 different genera in over 160 families.
• List of lichenological societies
• Macrolichens of the Coppermine, Hood, and Thomsen Rivers, Northwest Territories, Canada by William Gould, University of Colorado, USA. - At this site there is also other lichen information and lichenological links.
• Mapping of lichens in Koblenz, Germany. The students of the biology set, class 13 of the Bischöfliches Cusanus Gymnasium Koblenz have mapped the distribution of lichens in the Koblenz area.
• MSDN, Microbial Strain Data Network, Southampton, UK. This is a guide to databases holding information on mushrooms, and an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP.
• The Mushroom Experimental Station, Horst, the Netherlands. Agriculture, applied research, mushrooms, edible fungi, mycology, applied mycology, compost, agaricus.
• The Mushroom Growers' Newsletter
• Mushroom Heaven by Lynne Reo Harris.
• Mushrooms and Magic: the Mycotheology Home Page
• Mushrooms of Slovenia
• mycoElectronica, John Dhabolt, USA.
• MycoInfo Newsletter
• Mycoinfo. A digital mycological journal, covering all aspects of fungal biology (including cell and molecular biology, taxonomy and systematics, ecology, industrial mycology, medicine, mushroom collecting and food production) - also lichenized fungi and myxomycetes.
• Mycological Society of San Francisco
• Mycological Society of Toronto, Canada
• Mycological Type Collection within the Herbarium of Oregon State University, USA.
• Mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
• Mycologists Online, Cornell, USA. Mycologists Online is a running list of mycologists, lichenologists, fungal and lichenological herbaria and culture collections, editors of periodicals that publish papers on fungi and lichens, officials of national and international organizations, and contact persons for amateur societies accessible by E-mail.
• Mycologue Publications, Canada
• Mycology Resources of Smithsonian Institution, USA. Checklist of the Lichenized Fungi of the Guianas, Inoculum, MSA Directory, lichen and other types of U.S. National Herbarium.
• Mycology - WWW Sites of Interest (Botanische Staatssammlung München)
• Myconet Umeå, Mycology at the University of Umeå, Sweden (in Swedish).
• Mycorrhizae (L.E. Chinnery, Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados
• MycorWeb, France. The world-wide web (WWW) server of the Forest Microbiology Unit (I.N.R.A.) which is located at Champenoux near Nancy in France.
• Mycosystema: Annual report of Systematic Mycology & Lichenology Laboratory, Beijing, China
• Mycotaxon. Mycotaxon is a scientific journal devoted exclusively to the taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi (including lichens).
• Mycoteket, Uppsala University, Sweden - searchable culture collection
• Myko Web, USA. Myko Web is produced by Michael Wood, a past president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. There is information on the Mycological Society of San Francisco, other North American Mycological Societies.
• Nathan Wilson's Fungi Photo Index from Venice, California, USA.
• Natural Perspective: Fungus Kingdom by Ari Kornfeld, USA
• The New York Botanical Garden's Catalog of Macrofungi, USA. The New York Botanical Garden is in the process of cataloging its specimens of macrofungi. The records are made available family by family, as cataloging is completed. Currently (August 1996), the data for Amanitaceae (3198 records) and Boletaceae (6707 records) is available.
• New Zealand Fungi. Images, field keys and other information about fungi in New Zealand.
• North American Lichen Project
• North American Mycological Society (NAMA). The North American Mycological Association is an organization of individuals, families and local clubs dedicated to the study and enjoyment of mushrooms.
• Northeast Mycological Federation, Inc., USA.
• North West Fungus Group, England, UK. The North West Fungus Group covers the counties of Cheshire, Clwyd, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside in the north west of England.
• Oak Forest Mushroom Association, Ontario, Canada
• Olof Swartz' lichen types, Swedish Museum of Natural History
• Pilze, Pilze, Pilze by Georg Müller, Germany
• Plasmodiophorid Home Page, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, USA.
• Polypores of Sweden. A checklist of Swedish polypores with information about hosts, frequency and geographical distribution. The information is based on a five-year investigation project comprising extensive field studies as well as registration of polypore material deposited in Swedish herbaria.
• Puget Sound Mycological Society, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Ralph's Finest Fungi Fancier File, Ralph Czerepinski, Michigan, USA.
• Recent Literature on Lichens is a series published in the Bryologist (a journal of thr American Bryological and Lichenological Society). The series aims at listing all recently published papers in lichenology, with a complete bibliographic reference, keywords, and abstract - including mention of all new scientific names and combinations.
• Regensburger Mykologische Schriften (Germany). Die Regensburger Mykologischen Schriften, herausgegeben von A. Bresinsky und H. Besl für die Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft, dienen der Veröffentlichung von Beiträgen zur Floristik, Systematik und Ökologie der Pilze Deutschlands unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Regensburgs und Bayerns.
• A revision of Collybia s.l. in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada by Roy Halling. Web version of Mycologia Memoirs 8: 1-148, "The genus Collybia (Agaricales) in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada", published as hardcopy in 1983.
• Sixth International Mycological Congress (IMC6, Jerusalem, 1998)
• Skånes Mykologiska Förening (Skåne Mycological Society, Sweden)
• Smithsonian Lichen Research
• The Society for Actinomycetes Japan
• The Sonoran Desert Lichen Flora Project
• Spongospora Home Page, a place for information and communication exchange on different aspects of the pathogen Spongospora, maintained by the ETH Phytopathology Group in the Institute of Technology at Zürich, Switzerland.
• Spore Print, journal of the Los Angeles Mycological Society, USA (gopher).
• The state of taxonomy of the genus Armillaria, Harold H. Burdsall, Jr. and Thomas J. Volk, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Forest Service, U. S. D. A., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• A Strategy for an All-Taxa Inventory of Fungal Biodiversity by Amy Y. Rossman, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
• Sveriges Mykologiska Förening (Swedish Mycological Society)
• Swedish Museum of Natural History - lichen collections. List of lichen taxa at the Department of Cryptogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Sydney Fungal Studies Group, Australia. The Sydney Fungal Studies Group is a loosely associated, non-profit, group of people who are interested in all aspects of fungi, and with an emphasis on Australasian fungi. The Group consists of mycological and other academics, students, and anyone else who might be interested.
• Systematic Studies in Discomycetes: Pezizales from the Harvard University Herbaria, USA.
• Tartu University Lichenological Herbarium, Estonia
• Threatened lichens in Finland, by Sampsa Lommi, University of Helsinki.
• Tom Volk's Fungi, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Forest Products Lab, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• University of Alberta Microfungus Herbarium (UAMH)
• University of Michigan Herbarium Web Gis Prototype. Interactive distribution maps of fungi in the USA.
• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Medical Mycology Research Center, Texas, USA
• The University of West Indies Mycorrhizae Research Group
• Uppsala svampklubb, Sweden
• U. S. Food and Drug Administration: Mushroom Toxins and Aflatoxins
• U.S. National Fungus Collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
• Verein für Pilzkunde St.Gallen (St. Gallen Mycological Society, Switzerland)
• Virginia Tech Mycology Lab, USA, manages preserved fungal collections for the Virginia Tech Mycological Herbarium (VTMH) and fungal cultures for the Virginia Tech Culture Collection (VTCC). Collections include the Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes, Zygomycetes, and Deuteromycetes. The greatest proportion of our collections and cultures are in the Agaricales (mushrooms).
• Wild Mushrooms from Tokyo, by K.Maruyama, Japan. Mushroom pictures the mountains in Tokyo.
• The World of Lichenology, Hawaii, USA, maintained by Cliff Smith.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Mycology, a list of mycological resources on the Internet. Maintained by Kathie Hodge, Cornell, USA.
• Zoosporic Fungi Online, University of Maine, USA - by Mel Fuller and Joyce Longcore. This site will inform readers as to what is being done with zoospore-producing fungi, including our own research, and stimulate others to study these exciting fungi and fungus-like organisms.

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