Fungimap's Online Field Guide to Australian Fungi

The Online Fungimap Field Guide provides brief descriptions and photographs of some 150+  fungi found within Australia.

Some of these species are relatively easy to identify in the field based on distinctive characteristics such as colour and/or shape. Others require more advanced identification techniques such as microscopic analysis. 

You can use the Online Field Guide to search for fungi by:

• Using the alphabetical list below and clicking on the link to take you to the species page
• Searching for fungi by Australian state/territory
• Searching by macrofungal groups  (agarics, boletes, puffballs, cup fungi, slime moulds, lichens)
  
• Searching for fungi based on the ability to identify them in the field
  

One hundred of these species are included in Fungi Down Under: the Fungimap Guide to Australian Fungi. This book, published in 2005, has descriptions, illustrations and maps.

In the list below old names or synonyms are shown in parentheses.

Please send any questions to fungimap@rbg.vic.gov.au