Links and Downloads
FUNGUS OF THE MONTH ARCHIVE -HERE
Special Links and downloads for the Fungi and Lichens section:
Yorkshire Fungi
For a provisional checklist of Yorkshire Fungi, please click here; there will be a separate list HERE for Seckar Wood.
Yorkshire Lichens
Mark Seaward has updated the Yorkshire Lichen Checklist for 2014. Click here to download in PDF format or click here to download as a Word document.
Further information
If you would like to find out more about studying and recording lichens and fungi in the UK please visit the following sites.
Ingleborough Waxcap Survey
Andy McLay of Natural England has very kindly given YNU permission to include a link to his excellent Survey of the Waxcaps (and allied species) of the Ingleborough area. To view click here.
Mycology is the study of fungi, lichenology is the study of lichens - which are also fungi - but a specialised group of organisms that have a symbiotic relationship with algae and cyanobacteria. The picture below is an illustration of a fungal-algae symbiont - Lichenomphalia umbellifera (L.) Redhead et al. syn Omphalina ericetorum (Pers.), often found on peaty moorland. The algal 'partner' is a tiny green thallus of Botryodina species.
Fungi and Lichens ~ Contacts and Recorders
Fungi Recorders: Andy Donegan (email: adonny@hotmail.co.uk) & Yannah Drury (email: Yiannaroo66@gmail.com)
Tel. for both: 07960 677173).
Lichens Recorder: Kian Hayles-Cotton (kian.hayles-cotton@york.ac.uk)