New Fungi records available

Over the last few months, our colleagues at DEW’s Biodiversity Data Team have been processing over 5,500 fungi records to upload them to the Biological Databases of South Australia (BDBSA). This has well over tripled the number of fungi records and expanded the available fungi taxonomy in BDBSA. The data uploaded has largely come from […]

Moss news

Last October was a big month for moss and at the State Herbarium of South Australia we “officially” renamed the month Soft Moss Rocktober. It began at the start of the year when I was asked if I could come up with a potential trivia night for the Nature Festival. Almost instantly I came up […]

Lepiota brunneoincarnata – another exotic toxic mushroom in South Australia

For some time, Lepiota brunneoincarnata is known to occur in South Australia and a similar species, Lepiota cristata, occurs in parts of New Zealand. The State Herbarium of South Australia has now published a new fact-sheet on this poisonous fungus (500kb PDF). At the State Herbarium of South Australia, we have collections of Lepiota from at least […]

Season’s greetings 2021/22

The State Herbarium of South Australia wishes all followers of the blog, its volunteers, staff, Hon. Research Associates and Research Affiliates a relaxing Christmas break and all the best for the New Year 2022.

Significant Days

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