Searching the Index Fungorum database

Searching Index Fungorum, and the other databases, works best if you have 'cookies' enabled on your browser. Disabling cookies will stop you from navigating between pages of records and traversing the taxonomic hierarchy.

Search for publication details of a fungus name by entering either the name or the specific epithet. Your entry can be right-truncated, e.g. 'Agaricus am' will find all names within the genus 'Agaricus' , with the first two letters of the epithet as 'am'.

The database search restricts you to 5,500 records. If you enter something as vague as 'A' you will not get all the records - try and be a bit more specific. The limit is sufficient to return all records for the largest genus, providing you really want to scroll through 26 pages of results. Please be kind to our server and be specific, literally!

Click on an entry to see more data. Full publication details are provided for some entries from CABI's Index of Fungi. However, full details of names published during the last 5 years have been omitted. If you want the data then take out a subscription to the publication!

Entries containing '[GSD]' have onward links to Global Species Databases full synonymy data.

For most entries the taxonomic hierarchy attached to a species is necessarily derived from the nomenclatural position of the genus through its type (thus Helotium appears in the Tricholomataceae because the type of Helotium is a basidiomycete). Only in GSD data is the taxonomic position of a species known through the position of the currently accepted name (thus Xyloma gyrans appears as 'incertae sedis' because the type of Xyloma is incertae sedis, but Xyloma gyrans is a synonym of Rhytisma acerinum which is Rhytismataceae, Rhytismatales). Thus for GSD data, you should follow the link to the current name, or generate the GSD species synonymy to determine the accepted taxonomic position of the species.