Purpose. The information on this website is provided as a resource for mycologists and all others interested in the scientific study of fungi. Most of the information deals with bibliographic citations of publications relating to fungi. These may be accessed by selecting "View bibliography" on the menu-bar to the left of this frame.

Arrangement. The bibliographic information is arranged alphabetically by the family name of the author or, where more than one author is present, the senior author. To avoid excessive waiting during loading, this information is divided: firstly into 26 separate pages based on the first letter of the author or senior author family name, and secondly into blocks all roughly a similar size and accessible from each of those pages. Please note that the alphabetic sort is far from perfect, and the same author may appear, even as a single or senior author, in more than one place. This is particularly frequent in cases where the author's name is transliterated from a different alphabet, or where an author's name is written differently in different alphabets or languages ("Höhnel" / "Hoehnel", "Gelyuta" / "Heluta"). Sorting inconsistencies may also, for example, occur in the following cases: when, for a particular author, the given name(s) are not abbreviated in some records, but abbreviated in others ("Keizer, Peter Jan" / "Keizer, P.J."); where an author's family name is sometimes hyphenated ("Al Rawahi" / "Al-Rawahi"); where an author's given names are sometimes hyphenated ("Donadini, J.C." / "Donadini, J.-C."), this a particularly common problem with names of Chinese origin; where the author's family name has a prefix ("Van der Walt" / "Walt, van der"); where the author's family name contains an apostrophe ("D'Agliano" appears before "Daams") or comprizes two parts both beginning with a capital letter ("Da Camara" appears before "Daams"); where a Chinese author presents his name differently in oriental and western publications ("Zhang Bin-cheng" / "Bin-cheng Zhang"). As they are detected, these inconsistences will be corrected in future versions.

Conventions. In the bibliographic citations, square brackets are generally used to indicate an alternative form of the information immediately preceding the brackets. For author information, this will most frequently be the author names as they appeared on the original publication, if the bibliographic citation shows them differently (for example in cyrillic). For titles of individual papers, books and other works, square brackets are most frequently used to provide a translation or, less often, a transliteration, and may sometimes be the only information available, particularly for works in non-alphabetic languages such as Chinese.

Viewing literature. Where a given bibliographic citation appears as a hyperlink, it is possible to view in image of each page of that work by clicking on the hyperlink.

Disclaimer. The information on this website is offered "as is", with no guarantee of its accuracy. A policy of continuous improvement is maintained, and contents may change without notice. The webmaster is aware that, in this first version, there are many errors, and efforts will be made to correct these. Corrections, constructive suggestions for improvements, and additional records are welcomed. For information on how to do this, please contact the webmaster.