National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR)

News of Mycological Collections

Augustus 2000	Augustus 1th : Adding 3 new Icones Marchalii : 00040301 : Psathyrella spadiceogrisea 00072001 : Melanoleuca polioleuca 00072601 : Agaricus bitorquis
July 2000	July 07th : Adding high resolution images from our scanning electronic microscope for some of the icones marchalii : Cortinarius acutus Cortinarius anserinus Cortinarius bulliardii Cortinarius causticus Cortinarius camphoratus Cortinarius croceus Cortinarius fragrantior Russula turci
May 2000	May 30th : The inventory of Dacrymycetales, Tulasnellales, Cantharellales and Boletales from Europa is now complete. See also lists of these groups for Belgium and type specimens. May 16th : Adding 3 new Icones Marchalii : 00020901 : Agrocybe paludosa 99100906 : Rhodocybe popinalis 99100907 : Lepista densifolia
April 2000	The inventory of Ustilaginomycetes, Tremellales, Auriculariales, Septobasidiales, Exobasidiales from Europa is now complete. See also lists of these groups for Belgium and type specimens.
March 2000	March 29th : Adding 3 new Icones Marchalii : 99093006 : Coprinus erythrocephalus 00011903 : Hyphodontia quercina 00020401 : Conocybe rickenii
February 2000	February 24th : Adding a new serie of Icones in the gallery : Icones Klopfensteinii. It exhibits 91 very nice watercolours of myxomycetes made by Mrs. Klopfenstein E., who is a well known belgian flowers painter. February 23th : Updating taxonomic lists for the herbarium of Europa. The inventory of Uredinomycetes from Europa is now complete. February 9th : Adding 3 new Icones Marchalii : 00010101 : Tremella mesenterica 00012902 : Exidia truncata 00012901 : Panellus stipticus
January 2000	January 25th : Adding 3 new Icones Marchalii : 99123102 : Sarcoscypha jurana 00010204 : Schizopora paradoxa 00010501 : Crepidotus cesatii var. subsphaerosporus January 24th : Adding image of the microscopy of Inocybe bongardii var. pisciodora : Icones Marchalii 99111002. January 19th : The inventory of the genus Puccinia from Europa has been made : 5 729 specimens of 545 taxa. The lists of Uredinomycetes from Europa and Belgium has been updated. January 18th : Adding images of Mycena pseudocorticola : Icones Marchalii 00010205 with a microscopy plate ! Adding 24 images (12 taxa) in the Icones Marchalii. This is a complete new presentation of these icones. You have now the choise of a list by taxa of by number. The news items are spoted and each icones have his separate page. Enjoy !
December 99	Adding 24 images (12 taxa) in the Icones Marchalii.
October 99	The inventory of Loculoascomycetes from Europa is now complete. This group ends the inventory of Ascomycetes of our european herbarium : 26 467 specimens of 5 936 taxa. (674 type specimens). October 20th - Updating the taxonomic lists of all groups from EUROPA.
September 99	Adding a gallery of images : up to now, one serie is available, it contains 63 scannings of fungi made by Mr. Albert Marchal.
July 99	July 16th - Updating the taxonomic lists of all groups from EUROPA.
April 99	April 16th - Updating the taxonomic lists of herbarium collections and types collections from EUROPA. (partial inventory)
March 99	The inventorisation of the Pyrenomycetes from EUROPA Herbarium is now complete. (7 493 herbarium specimens of 1 660 taxa)
January 99	The inventorisation of the Discomycetes from EUROPA Herbarium is now complete. (10 324 herbarium specimens of 2 337 taxa)
October 98	The Discomycetes from EUROPA Herbarium is now in stage of inventorisation. (6549 specimens up to now) 130 specimens of collection De Meulder H., 61 specimens of collection Fraiture A., 68 specimens of collection Lachapelle J., 577 specimens of collection Ruysseveldt H. from Belgium, and some more minor collections has been recorded and added in our herbarium.
September 98	For the EUROPA Herbarium, the Hemiascomycetes and the Plectomycetes are now completely encoded. 63 specimens of collection Sharp C. from Africa, 63 specimens of collection Walleyn R. from Europa, and 31 specimens of collection Genard F. from Belgium has been recorded and added in our herbarium.
Augustus 98	For the EUROPA Herbarium, the Oomycetes and Zygomycetes are now completely encoded. The inventory of the GENERAL Herbarium is now COMPLETE, all specimens of : Poroid Fungi, Sclerodermatales, Melanogastrales, Tulostomatales, Lycoperdales, Nidulariales, Phallales, Gautierales, Hymenogastrales, Hyphomycetes, Podaxales, Coelomycetes are now completely encoded. An interactive powerful search engine was developped to find genus and all infrageneric taxa recorded in our Database. Try it now : The Genus Yellow Pages.
July 98	For the EUROPA Herbarium, all specimens of the genus Bremia, Leptomitus, Peronoplasmopara (Oomycetes) is now complete. The inventory of the genus Peronospora is in course. For the GENERAL Herbarium, all specimens of the groups : Uredinomycetes, Ustilaginomycetes, Tremellales, Auriculariales, Septobasidiales, Exobasidiales, Brachybasidiales, Dacrymycetales, Tulasnellales, Cantharellales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales, Thelephoroid and Corticioid Fungi, Cupuloid Fungi, Clavaroid Fungi, Hydnoid Fungi are now completely encoded. They are now local links to reach quickly genus in the taxonomic lists. Reportings of TYPE specimens are now availaible for Africa, Europa and General Herbaria.