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Australia's Fungi Mapping Scheme July 2007 AUSTRALIA’S FUNGI MAPPING SCHEME Cubberla-Witton Catchment Group, Gold Coast City Council, Gold Coast Tourism, Inside this Edition: Katie Syme and of course our conference News from the Fungimap Co-ordinator ......1 partners Queensland Mycological Society. Contacting Fungimap ..................................2 Instrumental in the planning and running of Fungi Interest Groups..................................2 the conference were Sapphire McMullan- From the Editor. ..........................................3 Fisher, Ray and Noreen Baxter, Teresa Request for volunteers.................................3 Lebel, Evelin Tiralongo, Diana Leemon, The Fungimap round………………………3 Graham Patterson, Pippa Lloyd, Geoff Lay Fungimap IV by Noreen & Ray Baxter.......3 and Fiona Bowie. Thanks also to all of our Curious caps by Richard Robinson speakers and foray/workshop leaders and the .....................................................…………4 Fungimap conference planning committee. Fungal News: Regions. ...............................5 Many of these people volunteered a Club contacts...............................................7 significant amount of their time over the past President's Report by Tom May………8 12 months to the organisation of this event. Financial Report by John Carpenter….......10 Their efforts are very deeply appreciated. Abstracts from the day of talks as well as a gallery of ‘action shots’ from the conference NEWS FROM THE FUNGIMAP are now available on the Fungimap website. Thank-you to everyone who submitted CO-ORDINATOR evaluation forms at the close of the Sarah Jacob conference. The feedback in general has been overwhelmingly positive. We also I am pleased to report that Fungimap greatly appreciate your suggestions, which successfully held our fourth biennial will help us to improve our future conference recently in south-east conferences for the benefit of all Queensland. Eighty delegates from around participants. Preparations have already Australia and abroad converged at the begun for Fungimap V in 2009, to be held in beautiful venue of Camp Bornhoffen for the New England region of New South four days of talks, workshops and forays in Wales. the surrounding forest. It was wonderful to see participants from a variety of different Back at the office, John Carpenter and I are sectors – catchment authorities, local bush preparing to migrate our financial data to a regeneration and community groups, dedicated accounting software package. This researchers and interested individuals. A will allow us greater control over tracking of more detailed report of the event has been finances and simplify our day-to-day provided by Ray and Noreen Baxter in this financial procedures. The changes will be issue. implemented in the next couple of months. I would like to extend thanks on behalf of Thankfully, many areas of Australia are now Fungimap to a number of individuals and receiving some much-needed rain, so I trust organisations, whose hard work and support that this will result in a concurrent increase made the conference possible. Financial and in Fungimap records being submitted! in-kind support was provided by Brisbane Thank-you to everyone who continues to City Council, Royal Botanic Gardens submit fungi sightings from their local area. Melbourne, Griffith University, Crown Every record helps us to better understand Scientific, Australian Instrument Services, the distribution of target species across the country. Fungimap Newsletter 32 July 2007 CONTACTING FUNGIMAP Fungimap Central Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Telephone: (03) 9252 2374 Private Bag 2000 E-mail: [email protected] South Yarra VIC 3141 Website: http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/fungimap/ Fungimap Committee President Secretary Committee Members Tom May Paul George Pam Catcheside Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne C/-Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne State Herbarium of S.A. Private Bag 2000 Private Bag 2000 P.O. Box 2732 South Yarra VIC 3141 South Yarra VIC 3141 Kent Town SA 5071 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Vice President Treasurer Katrina Syme John Carpenter Pam O’Sullivan RMB 1020 C/-Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne PO Box 154 South Coast Hwy Private Bag 2000 Ourimbah NSW 2258 Denmark WA 6333 South Yarra VIC 3141 Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] FUNGI INTEREST GROUPS NSW Vic Sydney Fungal Studies Group Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, Fungi forays, talks and workshops in the Sydney area. Secretary: Donald Gover, Ph: (02) 9661 4898 Fungi Group Email: [email protected] Forays, monthly meetings & presentations. Web: www.sydneyfungalstudies.org.au Contact: Arthur Carew (03) 5968 4505 Web: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~fncv then Calender of Central Coast Fungi Group Events Fungi forays in the Central Coast region of NSW. Contact: Pam O’Sullivan, Ph: (02) 4362 1543 WA Email: [email protected] Perth Urban Bushland Fungi Project Qld Fungi workshops, walks, surveys in Perth Urban bush areas. Queensland Mycological Society Contact: Roz Hart, Community Education Officer. Brisbane Email:[email protected] Contacts: Michael Powell Web: http://www.fungiperth.org.au Email: [email protected] WA Naturalists’ Club, Fungi Study Sapphire McMullan-Fisher: [email protected] Group SA Fungal forays, workshops, identification evenings and talks, based in Perth. Adelaide Fungal Studies Group Contact: WA Naturalists’ Club Monthly meetings and forays during the fungi season. Email: [email protected] Contact: Pam Catcheside, Ph: (08) 8222 9379 Web: http://www.wanats.iinet.net.au/fungigroup.html Email: [email protected] Fungimap WA Tas Contact: Katrina Syme email: [email protected] Fungi Lovers Adventure Group (FLAG) William Bay National Parks Fungi activities in northern Tasmania. Dale Fewings: [email protected] Contact: Sarah Lloyd, Ph: (03) 6396 1380 Email: [email protected] 2 Fungimap Newsletter 32 July 2007 FROM THE EDITOR I still seem to be coming down to earth after the recent WANTED Fungimap conference. It would be wonderful to include all Fungimap Volunteers the photographs, limericks and comments that we have Fungimap is looking for volunteers. received but this is not possible in the space of the Management of the Fungimap photograph newsletter, but go to the website for ‘extras’. If anyone library. This is an opportunity to see the many would like a copy of the limericks composed at the quiz wonderful images that members have sent in. The night, please let me know. Noreen Baxter very kindly volunteer would need to be skilled in the typed these and sent them to me. documentation, organisation and filing of digital images. This issue includes reports on the conference, observations on unusual fungal forms and news from around the Contact Sarah Jacob (Fungimap Co-ordinator) for country. details: (03) 9252 2374; [email protected] The next issue of the Newsletter will be the ‘bumper’ edition. As usual, this will include a colour section, so The Fungimap round please send in your articles and images of fungi, and any The Fungimap round was composed by Larry material related to fungi, including questions, puzzles, Polansky, with ‘libretto’ from the Fungimap brochure comments, reviews, quirky bits of news. Articles should be produced by by Sarah Lloyd and others in 2006. no more than 800 words, news items no more than 500 If you would like to view the music and words of the words; images should preferably be jpg, resolution at least round you can visit Larry’s website: 300dpi and submitted in at least the size that they are to be http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/scores/fungimap. published. Avoid images larger than 1Mb (which are pdf preferably to be posted on CD-ROM). Please send your Larry has also kindly offered to send a copy of the contributions to Pam ([email protected]) current version of the little round book (which or Fungimap, RBG Melbourne, Private Bag 2000, South includes the Fungimap & all the Lloyd rounds, and Yarra, Victoria 3141 ([email protected]). The everything on the website) to anyone who would like deadline for the next issue, Fungimap Newsletter 33, is st it. Friday, 21 September 2007. Larry Polansky Music Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH Pam Catcheside 03755, U.S.A. Email: [email protected] FUNGIMAP IV Noreen & Ray Baxter The Fungimap IV Conference was held from 31st May to The Friday talks, given by specialists in the specific topics 5th June 2007 at Natural Bridge in South-east Queensland. covered, were excellent. The speakers were: • Roy Halling from New York Botanic Gardens, For those who have been privileged to attend all four David Orlovich (NZ), Ian Hood (NZ), all Fungimap conferences the standout feature continued to be internationals; the infectious enthusiasm of the professional mycologists • Tom May (RBG Melbourne), Katrina Syme who so willingly shared their knowledge with everyone. (WA), Paul George (Vic), Karl Vernes (NSW) Each conference has been like a whirlwind of mycological from interstate, and knowledge and experience with the professionals at the • Tony Young, Mike Hall, Ceri Pearce and Evelin vortex drawing all comers into the core. Tiralongo from Queensland. The conference format was: The keynote address “The Lamington National Park and • Friday: a full day of talks, ending with the its Macrofungi” was delivered by Tony Young. He keynote address after dinner; concluded with a recital of bush poetry by Banjo Patterson • Saturday and Sunday morning: local forays, led and C. J. Dennis. by experienced mycologists; • Saturday and Sunday afternoon: eleven different Fungimap President, Tom May, advised that the most workshops were conducted; commonly reported target species are Oudemansiella • Monday: a full day foray to Binna Burra. radicata, followed by Amanita xanthocephala, Omphalotus nidiformis (continued p. 4) 3 Fungimap Newsletter 32 July 2007 (continued from p.3) then Mycena interrupta. He Sunday most of the foragers visited Eucalypt forests described how the 25,000 target species’ distribution where, due to the extended drought, few fungi were found, records match the available Herbarium distribution data.
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