MycoKeys

🍄 Three new species of oyster-like fungi, Hohenbuehelia albomarginata, H. striata and H. guizhouensis, have been described from China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.142.204939

🎉 We are delighted to welcome Dr. Vasco Fachada as a Subject Editor for our journal! 👉 Read more about her expertise here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/news/1521

Five new Hydnellum species have been identified from northeastern and central China, characterised by features such as golden-yellow pileus margins, layered scales and fused fruiting bodies. Find out all about them: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.142.199686

🌿 A study of fungi associated with the neem tree (Azadirachta indica) has revealed two new fungal species and an updated inventory of 212 fungal taxa linked to this economically important medicinal plant. Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.142.208876

Two new wood-inhabiting fungal species, Hyphoderma tenuicystidiatum and H. tabuliformis, have been identified in Qinghai Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.210190

Three new ascomycete fungal species have been identified in Yunnan Province, China: Didymella baoshanensis, Nothophoma aceris, and N. ginkgonis, all found as decomposers on various plant materials. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.205517

Five new fungal species associated with macadamia nuts have been identified, alongside 13 previously known species newly recorded from this important tropical crop in China and Thailand: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.209886

Working on #biodiversity #data, collections, or monitoring? #LivingData2027 (9-12 June, Montréal, Canada) has an open call for sessions. 🗓 Deadline 31 October, 2026 ➡️Learn more: mycokeys.pensoft.net/news/1501

Two new yeast species, Oberwinklerozyma jinghongensis and Rosettozyma fusiformis, have been identified from rotting wood in Xishuangbanna Primeval Forest Park in southwestern China. Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.204237

Three new mushroom species - Neosarcodon chebalingensis, N. nanlingensis, and N. velutinus - have been identified from subtropical regions of southern China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.202277

Two new chanterelle species, Cantharellus armeniacus and C. cremeus, have been identified in the Dabie Mountains of central China. Find out all about them: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.210171

Two new fungal species, Colletotrichum micheliae and C. myristicae, have been identified from diseased plant leaves in Hainan Province, China, using morphological and genetic analysis. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.203785

🎋 Two new fungal species, Colletotrichum abaense and C. phyllostachydis, have been discovered in dead bamboo culms within the Giant Panda National Park in Sichuan Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.209472

🍄 Two new yeast species, Tremella arisaematis and Pseudotremella guizhouensis, have been identified from plant materials collected in central and southern China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.205833

🍄 Two new fungal species, Fusarium malloti and Fusarium castanopsidicola, have been discovered on diseased plant leaves in Hainan Province, China, through integrated morphological and genetic analysis: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.209463

Two new toxic mushroom species, Inocybe tumericolor and I. subaeruginascens, have been identified from China and found to contain dangerous combinations of psychoactive and poisonous compounds that can cause severe illness or hallucinations. Learn more about them: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.203741

🍄 Three new mushroom species, Inosperma fibrifugum, Inosperma glomerisquamulosum, and Inosperma lilacinifolium, have been discovered in the subalpine forests of western Sichuan, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.141.200822

🍄 Five new fungal species have been discovered on dead branches in Yunnan Province, China, including Anastomitrabeculia yunnanensis, Coryneum lincangense, and Helicoma nixiense, expanding our understanding of saprobic microfungi diversity in the region: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.205151

🍄 Two new mushroom species have been identified in northeast China: Bolbitius planoflavus and Bolbitius fuscopapillatus: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.203173

🐛 Seven new fungal species have been identified in association with destructive bark beetle outbreaks affecting pine forests in China. This comprehensive study has also documented 20 ophiostomatalean fungal species from infested trees: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.199146

🧬 Complete mitochondrial genomes of five Thaxterogaster fungal species have been sequenced and analysed for the first time, revealing important information about the genetic structure and evolutionary characteristics of this fascinating genus: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.205520

🍄 A comprehensive study of medicinal fungi in China has revealed two new species of Ganoderma and resolved a taxonomic debate, clarifying that what Asian researchers had mistakenly identified as a European species was actually an entirely distinct Asian fungus: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.204190

🍄 Two new fungal species have been discovered in the Hainan Tropical Rainforest, thus expanding our understanding of the poorly-studied Graphostromataceae family in tropical regions: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.206566

🍄 Two new fungal species, Resupinatus meihui and R. cinereofuscus, have been discovered in China, bringing the number of known Chinese species in this genus to 14: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.202233

🔬🌍 We were delighted to attend "Handling Evidence: a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective" by Dmitry Schigel at #TDWG2026. Schigel is an author and reviewer in our journal and presented how biodiversity communities can improve evidence handling by drawing inspiration from different disciplines. @tdwg.org

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #TDWG2026, running this week in Oslo! 📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research. @tdwg.org #BiodiversityData

🍄 Two new fungal species, Chloridium jiangxiense and Paragongromeriza jiangxiensis, have been discovered in Jiangxi Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.205743

🍃 A taxonomic revision of the lichen genus Bunodophoron in New Caledonia has identified four species living in the region's montane rainforests, two of which are new to science: B. flagellare and B. imbricatum. Access the full study: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.197771

🍄 A comprehensive new dataset has been built from nearly 1,800 fungal sequences, bringing together fragmented genetic data on ophiostomatoid fungi, a group of beetle-associated microfungi that includes some serious tree pathogens: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.201772

Three new foliar fungal pathogens infecting vine tea (Nekemias grossedentata) have been identified in Hubei, China: Coniella ampelopsidis, Colletotrichum enshiense, and Pestalotiopsis ampelopsidis. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/myco...

New fungal species Biscogniauxia barriae has been found living a "double life": as an endophyte in Douglas-fir needles in coastal BC, and producing stromata on dead hardwoods. Learn more about its ecological properties: doi.org/10.3897/myco... #fungi #newspecies

#Fungi sustain food, medicine & climate resilience, but #mycologists from low-income countries often can't afford to attend global conferences. The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇 #gofundme #science

🍄Four new #fungal species of Distoseptispora described from decaying wood in Fujian, Jiangxi, and Yunnan, China: D. acropleurogena, D. distoseptata, D. ellipsoidea, and D. jiulianshanensis. 👉 doi.org/10.3897/myco... #fungi #newspecies

🍄 Two new species of polypore fungi, Coriolopsis albescens and Polyporus laoshanensis, have been discovered during a survey of wood-decaying fungi in Jiangsu Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.139.209057

🌱 Our team has touched down in Brussels for #NeoBiota2026 - the 14th International Conference on Biological Invasions! Here through 11 Sept. Come chat with our team about Pensoft Publishers' publishing portfolio - journals, books & conference services. We'd love to connect 🤝

🍄 Four new species of fungus from the genus Botryobasidium have been discovered in eastern China: B. fujianensis, B. fusisporellum, B. subconiferarum and B. macrosporum. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.139.206012

🍄 Two new fungal species have been discovered living among the roots of a medicinal plant in Anhui Province, China, with a third fungus recorded on this plant for the first time: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.139.197994

📍 We recently attended the 4th BioSyst.EU meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, held in the very city where taxonomy was born! ➡️ Read the full recap on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/09/03/p... #BioSyst2026

🧬The OPENBAR initiative (a @biogeneurope.bsky.social project) is launching two efforts to build a community #DNA #barcoding field guide: a 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 (𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟏𝟓, 𝟏𝟒-𝟏𝟔 𝐂𝐄𝐓) and a 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 on lab realities. Open to researchers across the field. Register for the online forum: mbmg.pensoft.net/news/1456

🍄 Three new species of the mushroom genus Pholiotina have been discovered in China's Jilin Province and Xizang Autonomous Region: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.139.201595