THE QUEENSLAND MYCOLOGIST Bulletin of The Queensland Mycological Society Inc Vol 14 Issue 1/2, Autumn/Winter 2019 The Queensland Mycological Society ABN No 18 351 995 423 Internet: http://qldfungi.org.au/ Email: [email protected] Address: PO Box 1307, Caloundra, Qld 4551, Australia Society Objectives QMS Committee The objectives of the Queensland Mycological Society are to: President 1. Provide a forum and a network for amateur and professional mycologists to Wayne Boatwright share their common interest in macro-fungi; [email protected] 2. Stimulate and support the study and research of Queensland macro-fungi Vice President through the collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of information about fungi through workshops and fungal forays; Diana Leemon 3. Promote, at both the state and federal levels, the identification of Secretary Queensland’s macrofungal biodiversity through documentation and publication of its macro-fungi; Vivian Sandoval-Gomez [email protected] 4. Promote an understanding and appreciation of the roles macro-fungal biodiversity plays in the health of Queensland ecosystems; and Treasurer 5. Promote the conservation of indigenous macro-fungi and their relevant Diana Leemon ecosystems. Minutes Secretary Position Vacant Membership Membership Secretary Membership of QMS is $25 per annum, due at the beginning of each calendar year, and is open to anyone with an interest in Queensland fungi. Membership is Frances Guard not restricted to people living in Queensland. Membership forms are available on [email protected] the website, http://qldfungi.org.au/. Foray Coordinator Could members please notify the membership secretary Susie Webster ( memsec@ qldfungi.org.au ) of changes to their contact details, especially e-mail info @qldfungi.org.au addresses. Committee Member: The Queensland Mycologist Vanessa Ryan The Queensland Mycologist is issued quarterly. Members are invited to submit short articles or photos to the editor for publication. It is important to note that it Other office holders is a newsletter and not a peer-reviewed journal. However we do aspire to high standards of accuracy. Collection Permit Holder Material can be in any word processor format, but not PDF. The deadline for Susie Webster contributions for the next issue is 15 November 2019, but if you have something ready, please send it NOW! Late submissions may be held over to the next Permit Data Collector edition, depending on space, the amount of editing required, and how much time Vivian Sandoval-Gomez the editor has. The standard font used for text is Gothic 720BT, 10pt, with other sans serif fonts used for headings and captions. Font sizes may vary if required Website Administration to make articles fit the available space, and text may be edited for the same Thinkaloud Consulting purpose. [email protected] Photos should be submitted separately at full-size to allow flexibility in resizing https://thinkaloud.com.au/ and cropping to fit the space available while minimising loss of quality. Authors who have specific preferences regarding placement of photos should indicate in Librarian the text where they want them, bearing in mind that space and formatting Position Vacant limitations may mean that it is not always possible to comply. Material from published sources (including the internet sites such as Wikipedia) may be Newsletter Editor included if that complies with copyright laws and the author and source are David Holdom properly acknowledged. However extensive verbatim copying is not acceptable. [email protected] Cover Illustration Marasmius aff elegans one of the Marasmius species Fran discusses in her article on page 5. Image © Fran Guard. 2 Contents QMS calendar 4 Editor's comments 4 Missing Marasmius data 5 Small fan shaped poroid fungi in SEQ rainforests 7 Fungal conservation: The road to global red listing of Queensland 8 fungi Book Review: Where the Slime Mould Creeps, by Sarah Lloyd 13 QMS Activities Meetings Meetings are held in the F.M. Bailey Room at the Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, commencing at 7pm on the second Tuesday of the month from February (no January meeting), unless otherwise scheduled. Check the website for details and any changes. There will be 3-4 guest speakers invited during the year and other meetings will be informal. Suggestions from members for topics or names of potential speakers or talks will be welcome at any time. Please contact a member of the Committee. To assist those unable to attend meetings, notes on the talks are included in the Queensland Mycologist and on the website if possible. However, the notes never do justice to the topic as they do not reflect the enthusiasm of the speaker or cover the discussion that follows, and not all talks are written up for the newsletter. So remember, where possible it is better to attend the meetings, get the information first hand and participate in the invaluable information sharing opportunity. Suppers are provided by volunteers. Please bring a plate if you can. Forays QMS hold regular forays during the first half of the year. The dates are nominally the 4th Saturday of the month, but actual dates may vary and additional forays may also be held. Field trip details may change as a result of drought or other unforeseen circumstances. Check the website for changes. Members are invited to suggest venues for additional forays. If you have any suggestions (and especially if you are willing to lead a foray), please contact Susie Webster or another member of the Committee. Workshops What do you, our members, want to learn more about that could be presented in a workshop? QMS is always on the lookout for workshop ideas. Members are encouraged to suggest topics, whether new or reruns of past workshops. Send your ideas to Vivian Sandoval-Gomez or Wayne Boatwright ( info @ qldfungi.org.au ). Details of workshops will be included in newsletters and on the QMS website as they become available. 3 QMS Calendar – 2019* MONTH MEETINGS FORAYS/WORKSHOPS October Speaker: Ed Kerr – Wild Yeast for Fermentation November Speakers: Various – A Year of Forays and Reports December Speaker: Dr Tony Young – The Michael Howie Slides Check the website for updates Editor's comments shaped poroid fungi“ (Favolaschia and Panellus species). Enough for one newsletter at last! Fran and This Newsletter has been a long time coming, but so Pat have been among the fairly small number of few people have provided articles until recently. I stalwarts who have contributed so much over the started writing up two finds from several years ago, years. but both need a lot more background work. Hopefully I can get them done for the next newsletter. Dr Miranda Mortlock has written a review of a new book on slime moulds. Now I could get all pedantic However, I do not want to both write the articles AND and say that slime moulds are not fungi, but they have edit the newsletter. Please try to write up forays and been lumped with fungi in the past, they can LOOK any items of interest, no matter how short. There are like fungi, and non-specialists with an interest in fungi often gaps in newsletters that can be filled with very will inevitably come across them and wonder what short articles. they are. They are also incredibly interesting Fran Guard came to the rescue with a write-up of her organisms in their own right. talk on Marasmius and Pat Leonard with his talk on Welcome to a new contributor, albeit long-standing Fungal Conservation and an article on “Small fan- member of QMS. Some Links A Science Show episode entirely about fungi: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/magic-mushrooms-can-mycelia-give-us-safe- plastics/11477878 The Way Through the Woods, On Mushrooms and Mourning By Long Litt Woon. A review of a book by a woman whose developing interest in mushrooms helped find new interest in life after the death of her husband: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/books/review-way-through-woods-mushrooms-mourning-long-litt- woon.html Bhutan Fungi Expedition (the subject of Fran’s talk at the September meeting): mushroaming Bhutan 2019 gallery The Mycelium Foundry: https://ecovativedesign.com/ourfoundry Your Newsletter Needs You! This newsletter exists to provide a semi-formal way for members of QMS to share information. It is a newsletter, not an academic journal and so is much more flexible regarding content and style. Foray Reports have been the backbone of this newsletter, but in recent years they have dried up as Powerpoint presentations have been posted on the website and findings reported on the SEQ Fungi Facebook page. We really do need people to write up forays, and to produce articles based on presentations at meetings. Powerpoint presentations alone are not sufficient – it is the author speaking to the slides that makes the story. I can help knock things into shape, but I need those words first! It is also best if I have original photos, as the fewer times they get pulled through the editing process, the less detail is lost. Getting everything in the right place and correctly sized can take a lot of time and effort, and there is often more scope to trim originals to fit the format of the article than there is with pre-edited photos. Articles do not need to be long, or technical (this is a newsletter, not a journal), so a paragraph with a photo will do, and can be very useful for filling spaces. In general, anything from that paragraph, to a page, to several pages. Any word processor format is acceptable, but NOT PDF files. 4 Missing Marasmius data southern Australia, which fits the original J.B.