The Queensland Mycologist
The Queensland Mycologist is published quarterly to provide all member with information on current QMS activities, and it also contains scientific articles. It is distributed by email and available online. Any member interested in being on the mailing list can contact the Secretary to go on the email distribution list. Members are invited to submit articles for publication (limit 200 words) to the editor.
Editor: Dr. David Holdom
Previous Queensland Mycologist Editor: Noreen Baxter (2007-08)
| Current Issue | Contents |
 Volume 18 Issue 3/4 Spring/Summer 2023 [.pdf file 1.9Mb 8 pages] | QMS Program 2023 Editor’s Comments Marasmius australotrichotus F.E.Guard, Dearnaley & T.Lebel sp. nov. A new species for Queensland Biodiversity Survey, Jondaryan 6-8 October, 2023 |
| Past Issues | Contents |
| Volume 18 Issue 1/2 Autumn/Winter 2023 [.pdf file 2.61Mb 29 pages] | QMS Program 2023 Editor’s Comments Two Recently Described Australian Macrofungi Mount Tambourine Residential Weekend 25th March 2022 An Interesting Find in My Garden Cryptomarasmius – the Ultimate LBMs Degradation of Polyethylene by Wood Decaying Fungi Fungal Taxonomy. Part One – Ancient Origins |
| Volume 17 Issue 1/2 Autumn/Winter 2022 [.pdf file 2.39Mb 14 pages] | QMS Program 2022 4 Editor’s Comments 4 New Species of Interest Laccocephalum hartmannii Some Fungi from Cairns How to Identify a Small Smelly Brown Fungus and Survive Litter Traps An Invasive Fungus – Favolaschia calocera |
| Volume 16 Issue 3/4 Autumn/Winter 2021 [.pdf file 4.27Mb 13 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Cooloola BioBlitz Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference 2021 Reishi |
| Volume 16 Issue 1/2 Autumn/Winter 2021 [.pdf file 4.27Mb 13 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Australasian Mycological Society Marasmioid Rhizomorphs in Bird Nests Book Review: Wild Mushrooming – A Guide for Foragers Book Review: The Forest in the Tree: How Fungi Shape the Earth QMS Maroochy Bushland Foray 8 May 2021 A Note on Zelleromyces Annie Hehir Environmental Reserve Foray 22 May 2021 Cortinarius Blue |
| Volume 15 Issue 1/2 Autumn/Winter 2020 [.pdf file 2.4Mb 14 pages] | QMS calendar Editor’s comments Fluorescent forests: Of mushrooms and marsupials Lion’s mane “crab” cakes Short note on Neolentinus sp. Old friends in a new place. Extension of distribution of Marasmius lebeliae QMS partnership with “Bugs and Beads” shop |
| Volume 14 Issue 3/4 Spring/Summer 2019 [.pdf file 3.9Mb 17 pages] | QMS calendar Editor’s comments Girraween National Park — 2019 Foray Report Pyronema omphalodes A ‘rude’ awakening The way through the woods. (Book review) Why Fungi Travel Wanted—Dead or Alive IUCN Red List news |
| Volume 14 Issue 1/2 Autumn/Winter 2019 [.pdf file 2.46Mb 14 pages] | QMS calendar Editor’s comments Missing Marasmius data Small fan shaped poroid fungi in SEQ rainforests Fungal conservation: The road to global red listing of Queensland fungi Book Review: Where the Slime Mould Creeps, by Sarah Lloyd |
| Volume 13 Issue 4 Summer 2018 [.pdf file 716Kb 11 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments A call out for specimens of powdery mildew! Serendipita – Mycorrhizal fungi with potential in sustainable agriculture Conserving Threatened Species Book Review: The Allure of Fungi |
| Volume 13 Issue 3 Spring 2018 [.pdf file 1.2Mb 15 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Linda Garrett foray June 2018 Impact of above average rainfall in 2018 Another chapter in the blue Mycena saga It’s all in the name: some tips for naming fungi in the field State of the World’s Fungi Symposium, Kew 2018 Some colourful questions |
| Volume 13 Issue 2 Winter 2018 [.pdf file 2.2Mb 17 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Chermside Hills Foray – March 2018 Nailing Phaeotrametes decipiens Lichens – An Introduction Wonderful Winecaps Puffball Paradise |
| Volume 13 Issue 1 Autumn 2018 [.pdf file 3.5Mb 20 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Tropical Fungi Project Progress Report Fungi of Dilkusha Nature Refuge – the Growing List Fungi – An Introduction |
| Volume 12 Issue 4 Summer 2017 [.pdf file 1.90Mb 18 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments The New York Botanical Garden and Steere Herbarium A day with the Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association Some “Chicken” Recipes Mycena Fungal Discoveries (web links) |
| Volume 12 Issue 3 Spring 2017 [.pdf file 6.50Mb 15 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Armed and dangerous- Chemical warfare in wood decay communities Bellthorpe 2017 Chefs, Chanterelles and Ketchup 3 Fungi from Greenland to Iceland |
| Volume 12 Issue 2 Winter 2017 [.pdf file 2.0Mb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments True Blue – Some Australian Blue Fungi and a Story Behind Nomenclature Finding Fungi Along the Road Purple Polypores A beetle on Omphalotus nidiformis Fungi on Decaying Wood |
| Volume 12 Issue 1 Autumn 2017 [.pdf 7.0Mb 15 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments The Purga Story Revisited A Nice Illusion Ourimbah Magic Two Polypores With Distinctive Spores Observations of Fungi on a Hoop Pine log Part Two Fossil Fungi in 99million year-old Amber from Myanmar The Kew Fungarium and the Edinburgh Herbarium More Mentoring for Mastering Mycological Methodology |
| Volume 11 Issue 4 Summer 2016 [.pdf 1.8Mb 17 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Collecting and Describing Macrofungi – Workshop Report A White Cage Fungus Testing Commercial Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculants A Mystery Fungus Mentoring for Mastering Mycological Methodology |
| Volume 11 Issue 3 Spring 2016 [.pdf 3.5Mb 17 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments How fungi help trees tolerate drought What does the Atlas of Living Australia tell us about the distribution of Mycena interrupta in Queensland and South Australia? Feasting flies at stinkhorns Mt Mort Foray Cunningham’s Gap Foray 28 May 2016 Ravensbourne National Park Truffle Foray |
| Volume 11 Issue 2 Winter 2016 [.pdf 7.9Mb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Are Mushrooms Medicinal?/ first GM mushroom 2016 Residential Foray – Woondum A Crust and a Bracket Chefs, Chanterelles and Ketchup 2 Amazing Myxomycetes |
| Volume 11 Issue 1 Autumn 2016 [.pdf 3.7Mb 13 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments The Cover Artwork December Newsletter Corrections and Comments Tenth Birthday Party Highlights Looking back over 10 years and forward to the next decade Social Media and Fungi Observations of a Hoop Pine Log Science Dictionary |
| Volume 10 Issue 4 Summer 2015 [.pdf 3.4Mb 13 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Chefs, Chanterelles and Ketchup Can I Eat It? Cairns Foray Log-grown Shiitake Mushroom Production |
| Volume 10 Issue 3 Spring 2015 [.pdf 2.3Mb 10 pages] | QMS calendar Spore print workshop report A New Caledonian foray Two new fungi for Queensland What was coming down the stairs? |
| Volume 10 Issue 2 Winter 2015 [.pdf 3.8Mb 14 pages] | QMS calendar Editor’s comments Girraween Foray 11th April, 2015 Linda Garrett Foray June 2015 Recognizing a red bracket fungus Brisbane West Fungi Survey Report 2014 Mycorrhizal Mysteries – Musings on Mallee Fungi A Fungus Beetle in Action |
| Volume 10 Issue 1 Autumn 2015 [.pdf 2.7Mb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Bellthorpe Foray, March 27 – 29, 2015 How many fungi are there? Cordyceps – Another way of Living Penicillium coccotrypicola The culinary delights of a local fungus. Myrtle rust and sooty mould. Beyond the Seed |
| Volume 9 Issue 4 Summer 2014 [.pdf 2.6Mb 16 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Bellthorpe – Sunshine Coast Hinterland’s Hidden Treasure A Fungal Crossword The Macrocybe crassa in my garden Two Weeks in Tasmania – a Holiday and So Much More Some Tasmanian Fungi and Lichens Fungal Conservation – First steps to a Queensland Red List Annex 1 The Global Red List Initiative Crossword answers |
| Volume 9 Issue 3 Spring 2014 [.pdf 2.7Mb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Report on the Linda Garrett Foray 2014 Fungi with Teeth My Fungi! Growing oyster and shiitake mushrooms Spore Workshop 27th September 2014 Hericium spp. from Tasmania White Punk – The Truth Revealed! A Most Mysterious Fungus |
| Volume 9 Issue 1/2 Autumn/Winter 2014 [.pdf 2.3Mb 16 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments President’s Report Survey of Fungi in the Western Lockyer 2013-14 Mycorrhizal fungi Perseverance Pays Off – Podaxis beringamensis Following the Amanita Trail The Diverse Forms of Amanita Book Review: Australian Subtropical Fungi |
| Vol 8 Issue 4 Summer 2013 [.pdf 1.5Mb 11 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Fungi-linx A truffle with a hitchhiker White Punk Thoughts on the Beginner’s Workshop QMS Beginners’ Workshop Challenges Chermside Hills May 2013 Foray Report |
| Vol 8 Issue 3 Spring 2013 [.pdf 4.2Mb 16 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Fungi-linx Ravensbourne & Crows Nest National Parks Foray Maroochy Wetlands Foray Cooloola National Park Foray Gasteromycetes Workshop |
| Vol 8 Issue 2 Winter 2013 [.pdf 1.7Mb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Linda Garrett Foray Report A Sarcodon rediscovered in Queensland? A Beginner’s Foray into Fungi Two Girraween Forays Chanterelles |
| Vol 8 Issue 1 Autumn 2013 [.pdf 1.6Mb 12 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Foray to Greater Glider Conservation Area Mt Cordeaux Foray, 16 Feb 2013 Fungi for Food Toxic Trogia |
| Vol 7 Issue 3/4 Spring / Summer 2012 [.pdf 2.2Mb 15 pages] | QMS Calendar Editor’s Comments Chermside Hills Foray Ravensbourne Foray Linda Garrett Foray Polypores and Fungi on Wood: Workshop Report Ganoderma in Queensland Xerula R.I.P. Mycokey 4 Iconografia Mycologica |
| Vol 7 Issue 2 Winter 2012 [.pdf 3.6Mb 11 pages] | QMS calendar New members Happy Birthday John Wrench Mycology Papers Online The 2012 Bunya Mountains Foray Mt Cordeaux, Main Range National Park Foray Two Queensland Rooting Polypores Genomics Of White Rot Fungi and the End Of Major Coal Formation Membership Form |
| Vol 7 Issue 1 Autumn 2012 [.pdf 800Kb 10 pages] | Vice-president’s Report Fungi and fire in Australian ecosystems A plea from the editor Foray to Dilkusha Nature Refuge 5 Nov. 2011 Cooloola National Park Foray 3 March 2012 Fungal poisonings New Year Fatal Fungi Foray Tasmanian Fungi Festival Membership Form |
| Vol 6 Issue 3/4 Spring / Summer 2011/12 [.pdf 950Kb 16 pages] | Society Objectives Office Holders QMS Calendar Addendum to Winter newsletter President’s Report Summer 2011 Tasmanian Fungi Event 2012 Macrofungi recognisable in the field – 3 Waxcaps & a Mycena A Fungus Outbreak in the Garden Report on the Nomenclature Section of the 18th International Botanical Congress, Melbourne, 18-22 July 2011 especially in relation to the names of fungi Fungimap Pearl for the December Meeting International Mycological Association Online Latest article on Paxillus (Italy) Membership form |
| Vol 6 Issue 2 Winter 2011 [.pdf 1.5Mb 18 pages] | Society Objectives Office Holders QMS Calendar QMS 2011 Field Trip Programme QMS workshops President’s Report Winter 2011 Finding QMS Fungi Info QMS foray Mt Cordeaux 30 April 2011 Springbrook Foray March 2011 Girraween National Park Foray The “Pagoda fungus” – a trap for inexperienced mycologists Gallery of Podoserpula pusio Membership form CONSENT FORM to use Copyright Images |
| Vol 6 Issue 1 Autumn 2011 [.pdf 1.7Mb 20 pages] | Society Objectives Office Holders QMS Calendar Don’t spread myrtle rust! President’s Report QMS foray to Cooloola – 29 January 2011 For the Love of Lichens Mycotoxicosis Oz: A Brief Survey of Poisonous Fungi in Australia Rose Elliot’s Mushroom Pâté En Croute Membership form |
| Vol 5 Issue 4 Summer 2010/11 [.pdf 1.1Mb 17 pages] | Society Objectives Office Holders QMS Calendar Notes on forays January to April 2011 President’s Report Obi Obi Track, Baroon Pocket Dam Foray Detective at Work – on an unknown Fungus Ethnic Attitudes to Fungi Membership form |
| Vol 5 Issue 3 Spring 2010 [.pdf 1.4Mb 14 pages] | Society Objectives Office Holders QMS Calendar Forays: Finding the Right Balance Between Science and Fun Mt Mee Foray Report QMS Cooloola Forays 26-27 June 2010 Orchids And Fungi – Partners For Life How to Recognise a Bolbitius Membership form |
| Vol 5 Issue 2 Winter 2010 [.pdf 1Mb 15 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar Workshop program Presidents Report Two rare coral fungi on wood Field Trip Report- Mt Cordeaux Boletus aff destitutus Corner Lyophyllum aff connatum Why You Should Never Identify a Fungus on the Telephone – a Cautionary Tale Membership form |
| Vol 5 Issue 1 Autumn 2010 [.pdf 968Kb 16 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar QMS 2010 Field Trip programme President’s Report Day out with the Museum Photographer Photography Training Gets Results Tetrapyrgos nigripes Battarrea stevenii Membership Form |
| Vol 4 Issue 4 Summer 2009/10 [.pdf 748Kb 19 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar 2010 President’s Report Some ideas on Fungal Fotography Foray Report-Redcliffe Botanic Gardens July 2009 How To Become A Serious Amateur Mycologist In Five Easy Steps Fungi needed for Museum book Membership form |
| Vol 4 Issue 3 Spring 2009 [.pdf 1.98Mb 17 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar Presidents Report Bunya Mountains Foray Report – March 2009 Lenzites acuta Ganoderma in Queensland – trial key and notes The Entomophthoromycota |
| Vol 4 Issue 2 Winter 2009 [.pdf 980Kb 16 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar A reminder about the image naming system QMS Financial Report Foray Coordination Proposal Report of Fungimap 5 Conference How to recognise an Agaricus Xerula – The long and winding road to finding a fungus name Despatches from our peripatetic president Australian Fungi- A blog The International Society for Mushroom Science The magic ingredient Fungal clip art web site A word or two from Ruth Membership Renewal Form |
| Vol 4 Issue 1 Autumn 2009 [.pdf 1.6Mb 29 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar QMS Field Trip Programme Fungimap 2009 Conference QMR- Queensland Mycological Records The First QMS babies! President’s Report QMS Collecting Permit QMS Image Naming Fungus Lessens Serious Grapefruit-Drug Reaction QMS Springbrook Weekend-November 2008 Mt Glorious Field Trip How to Recognise an Entoloma The Atlas of Living Australia Correction: The Agaricus xanthodermus that wasn’t Favolaschia calocera: Beautiful…and a weed Membership Renewal Form |
| Vol 3 Issue 4 Summer 2008/09 [.pdf 1Mb 17 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar Meeting Supper Roster QMS Field Trip Programme QMS Working Bee Fungimap 2009 Conference QMR- Queensland Mycological Records QMS Meeting highlights President’s Report Tremella mesenterica ‘Tis the season for recipes Phlebopus marginatus & Agaricus xanthodermus How to recognise a: Russula A cautionary tale for mushroomers Fungi on the web Timely fungi quote Mycodiesel? Last Stand for the Body Snatcher of the Himalayas? Drag racers of the fungal world Membership Renewal Form |
| Vol 3 Issue 3 Spring 2008 [.pdf 443Kb 16 pages] | Society Objectives QMS Website Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement QMS Calendar Meeting Supper Roster QMS Field Trip Programme Summary of QMS Meetings Fungimap 2009 Conference Presentation notes- Gasteromycetes President’s Report Field Trip Report Find of the Field Trip Dermocybe splendida Fungus feature – Panus fasciatus Identifying fungi for beginners Membership Renewal Form |
| Vol 3 Issue 2 Winter 2008 [.pdf 393Kb 13 pages] | QMS Calendar QMS Website Meeting Supper Roster QMS Field Trip Programme in detail Field Trip Reports Find of the Field Trip: Microporus xanthopus by Nigel Fechner Humidicutis arcohastata by Patrick Leonard Photography Workshop Report by Jon Atkinson Summary of QMS Meetings Annual Reports 2007/2008 Office Bearers Membership Renewal Form Nomination for Committee Sponsor Acknowledgement |
| Vol 3 Issue 1 Autumn 2008 [.pdf 328Kb 9 pages] | QMS Calendar Meeting Supper Roster QMS Website QMS Field Trip Programme in detail Field Trip Reports Find of the Field Trip Fascinating Fungi: Microglossum viride (Green Earth Tongue) on Binna Burra Walk by Fran Guard Fungi Around Moggill by Ray & Noreen Baxter Summary of QMS Meetings Email from Stacey McLean BCC Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement |
| Vol 2 Issue 4 Summer 2007/08 [.pdf 452Kb 15 pages] | QMS Calendar QMS Website Contents Office Bearers Sponsor Acknowledgement Acting President’s Report QMS Field Trip Programme in detail Field Trip Reports Find of the Field Trip Entomopathogenic Fungi by Diana Leemon Summary of QMS Meetings Fungal Feasts How to Join Mycena by Jan McNicol |
| Vol 2 Issue 3 Spring 2007 [.pdf 960Kb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar Acting President’s Report QMS Field Trip Programme Field Trip Reports Fungi In Focus – Panus fasciatus The QMS/IBISCA Project Report Fungimap Queensland Conference 2007 QMS August Meeting: Fungimap Conference Reports By Participants Summary of QMS Meetings QMS May Meeting Address: Mushrooms for Breakfast by Dr Chris Burwell Article: Growing Straw Mushrooms, submitted by Sheryl Backhouse 2007/8 Office Bearers Sponsors |
| Vol 2 Issue 2 Winter 2007 [.pdf 140Kb 10 pages] | QMS Calendar QMS Field Trip Programme Fungi In Focus – Auricularia auricula-judae Fungimap Queensland Conference 2007 & Program Field Trip Reports The QMS/IBISCA Project Fungi of Lamington By NP by Dr AM Young Summary of QMS Meetings Office Bearers Nomination for QMS Committee Form |
| Vol 2 Issue 1 Autumn 2007 [.pdf 176Kb 17 pages] | QMS Calendar QMS Field Trip Programme Collecting Fungi Fungi In Focus – Favolaschia calocera Fungimap Queensland Conference 2007 The QMS/IBISCA Project The Pharmacological Potential of Macro-fungi By Dr Evelin Tiralongo Summary of QMS Meetings Christmas Party Poems Fungi Food File QMS 2006 Milestones Glossary of Pharmacological Terms by Nigel Fechner Office Bearers |
| Vol 1 Issue 4 Summer 2006/07 [.pdf 292Kb 14 pages] | QMS Calendar President’s Note Fungi In Focus Fungimap Queensland Conference 2007 The QMS/BATH Project Summary of QMS Meetings Why The Forgotten Fungal Kingdom Is Really The Fabulous Fungal Kingdom by D Leemon Fungimap Targets In Queensland by S McMullan-Fisher Q-Fungi Target Species List by Dr T Young Fungi Food File Office Bearers |
| Vol 1 Issue 3 September 2006 [.pdf 136Kb 11 pages] | QMS Calendar Fungi In Focus Updates from the Secretary The QMS/BATH Project Fungimap Queensland Conference 2007 Gasteromycetes by Dr A Young An Overview of Major Macrofungal Groups by S McMullan-Fisher Fungimap Article Summary of Meetings Beginners/Refresher Fungi Workshop and Foray Office Bearers |
| Vol 1 Issue 2 June 2006 [.pdf 116Kb 6 pages] | QMS Calendar Fungi In Focus Genus Ramaria in Australia by N Fechner Office Bearers Basic Fungi for Beginners Workshop Report QMS Membership Application Form |
| Vol 1 Issue 1 May 2006 [.pdf 64Kb 10 pages] | Office Bearers QMS Objectives QMS Calendar A Summary of QMS from Conception to Inception Genus Amanita by Dr Tony Young Basic Fungi for Beginners Workshop Programme Member’s Skills/Interest Audit Questionnaire |
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