Two new species of waxcap mushroom, Hygrocybe zhibaiensis and H. longchuanensis, have been described from Anhui and Jiangxi provinces in China, with one characterised by its greenish cap, and the other by its bright red cap with an orange-yellow margin. 🍄

🪨 A new lichen species, Acarospora lactea, has been described from Montana, Nevada and Utah, and the taxonomy of a group of North American Acarospora species has been clarified.

🔬 A phylogenetic reassessment of the fungal genus Tolypocladium has resolved taxonomic ambiguities, revealing that species traditionally grouped together are actually distributed across three separate families and require significant taxonomic revision.

🍄 Three new endophytic fungal species - Trichoderma wenshanense, Clonostachys grandispora, and Thelonectria chlamydosporia - have been identified from the roots of Panax notoginseng grown under forest-based ecological cultivation in Yunnan Province, China.

Three new toxic mushroom species, Inocybe taishanensis, I. draconoculus, and I. pretiosa, have been identified in warm-temperate and subtropical China. These findings reveal that the Inocybe asterospora group is substantially more diverse in East Asia than previously recognised.