ICAF - Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi

ICAF is a searchable database of Australian fungi.

Description

The Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi is a joint project of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS).

The Interactive Catalogue runs from a database maintained by Tom May at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The database was originally derived from the printed version of the Catalogue and Bibliography of Australian Fungi, published in the Fungi of Australia series, by the ABRS.

The Interactive Catalogue will include all records from the Catalogue and Bibliography of Australian Fungi as well as corrections, additions, and changes to the taxonomy of fungi that have occurred subsequent to its publication.

The Interactive Catalogue presently covers in full the following Orders of Basidiomycota: Agaricales, Agaricostilbales, Atractiellales, Auriculariales, Boletales, Bondarzewiales, Cantharellales, Cortinariales, Dacrymycetales, Fistulinales, Ganodermatales, Gomphales, Hericiales, Hymenochaetales, Hymenogastrales, Lachnocladiales, Lycoperdales, Melanogastrales, Nidulariales, Phallales, Platygoeales, Poriales, Russulales, Sclerodermatales, Septobasidiales, Stereales, Thelephorales, Tremellales, Tulasnellales and Tulostomatales. Full coverage is also provided for the following Orders of Myxomycota: Acrasiales, Ceratiomyxales, Dictyosteliales, Echinosteliales, Liceales, Physarales, Protosteliales, Stemonitales and Trichiales.1

Text versions (as pdf files) are available for the some publications that contain protologues (formal descriptions of new species) for Australian fungi.2

Function

• Taxonomy
  • Identification tools, keys
• User interface
  • Personal use
  • Visual presentation of text

Why use this tool?

• Name resolution
• Australian fungi names and synonyms

Who will use this tool?

• Data creation
  • Experts - taxonomy
• Data capture
  • Curators – specimens, identification
• Data providers
  • Institutions
  • Private collections
  • Casual users
• Data users
  • Expert
  • Interest groups
• Some taxonomic skills may be required

How will the tool be used?

The interactive catalogue has been designed and developed by Peter Neish and Tom May at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. All pages are generated dynamically using PHP as the scripting engine and MySQL as the back end database.

• Online tool
• User input required

Where in the data chain could this tool be used?

• User’s machine

When could this tool be used?

• At the time of a user request

Availability

• ICAF - Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi: http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/research_and_conservation/fungi/cat
• Operational since 2004
• Maintained by Tom May - tom.may@rbg.vic.gov.au
• Copyright Royal Botanic Gardens - http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/about_us/disclaimer

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