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Dr Tom W. May

Senior Mycologist

email: tom.may@rbg.vic.gov.au
ph.: ++61 (0)3 9252 2319

Tom May is Senior Mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. His research interests are in the taxonomy, ecology and conservation of larger fungi, and in related historical and bibliographic aspects. He has been the lead author in an ongoing project to produce a Catalogue of Australian fungi, several volumes of which have been published in the Fungi of Australia series. He is currently working on an interactive key to the genera of Australian agarics. Tom is an active participant in community natural history groups, such as the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, and is currently the President of Fungimap, an organisation dedicated to improving knowledge and conservation of Australian fungi.

Papers Books Book Chapters

Papers

Lumbsch, H.T., Buchanan, P.K., May, T.W. & Mueller, G.M. (2008). Phylogeography and biogeography of fungi. Mycological Research 112: 423-424.

Johnston, P.R., May, T.W., Park, D. & Horak, E. (2007). Hypocreopsis amplectens sp. nov., a rare fungus from New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 715-719.

Mueller, G.M., Schmit, J.P., Leacock, P.R., Buyck, B., Cifuentes, J., Desjardin, D.E., Halling, R.E., Hjortstam, K., Iturriaga, T., Larsson, K.-H., Lodge, D.J., May, T.W., Minter, D., Rajchenberg, M., Redhead, S.A., Ryvarden, L., Trappe, J.M., Watling, R. & Wu, Q. (2007). Global diversity and distribution of macrofungi. Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 37-48.

Redhead, S.A., Ginns, J. & May, T.W. (2006). Proposal to conserve the name Agaricus lepideus against A. suffrutescens (Basidiomycota), Taxon 55: 1030-1032.

Sommerville, K. & May, T. (2006). Some taxonomic and ecological notes on the genus Banksiamyces. Victorian Naturalist 123: 366-375.

May, T.W., Dunk, C. & Lebel, T. (2006). Austral ectomycorrhizas overlooked. Mycological Research 110: 499-500.

Robinson, J.P., MacLeod, D.S., Taylor, D.M., Lebel, T. & May, T.W. (2006). The safety of edible fungi purchased at Melbourne markets. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 30: 279-280.

Ovenden, S.P.B., Yu, J., Bernays, J., Wan, S.S., Christophidis, L.J., Sberna, G., Tait, R.M., Wildman, H.G., Lebeller, D., Platel, D., May, T.W. & Meurer-Grimes, B.M. (2005). Trichomycins A and B: antibacterial triterpenes from the new species Tricholoma sp. AU1. Journal of Natural Products 68: 409-412.

May, T.W. (2005). From fungs to Fungimap: fungi and the FNCV, Victorian Naturalist 122: 319-326.

May, T. (2005). Looking after the bad guys: the conservation of pathogenic fungi. Australasian Plant Conservation 13(4): 20-21.

May, T. (2005). Forgotten flora remembered. Australasian Plant Conservation 14(1): 2-3.

May, T.W. (2003) The status of names and records of Australian macrofungi. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41: 379-389.

May, T., New, T., Walsh, N. & Yen, A. (2003). The Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act and the conservation of lesser known groups of biota. Victorian Naturalist 120: 246-260.

Buchanan, P.K. & May, T.W. (2003) Conservation of New Zealand and Australian Fungi. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41: 407-421.

McMullan-Fisher, S.J.M., May, T.W. & Kirkpatrick, J.B. (2003). Macrofungi from alpine Tasmania. Australasian Mycologist 22: 44-52.

McMullan-Fisher, S.J.M., May, T.W. & Keane, P.J. (2002). The macrofungal community and fire in a Mountain Ash forest in southern Australia. Fungal Diversity 10: 57-76.

May, T.W. (2002). Where are the short range endemics among Western Australian macrofungi? Australian Systematic Botany 15: 501-511.

Simpson, J.A. & May, T.W. (2002). Phaeolus schweinitzii in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 31: 99-100.

Packham, J.M., May, T.W., Brown, M.J., Wardlaw, T.J. & Mills, A.K. (2002). Macrofungal diversity and community ecology in mature and regrowth wet eucalypt forest in Tasmania: a multivariate study. Austral Ecology 27: 149-161.

May, T.W. (2001). Documenting the fungal biodiversity of Australasia: from 1800 to 2000 and beyond. Australian Systematic Botany 14: 329-356.

Hender, E.A., May, T.W. & Beulke, S.H. (2000). Poisoning due to eating fungi in Victoria. Australian Family Physician 29: 1000-1004.

Green, K., Tory, M.K., Mitchell, A.T., Tennant, P. & May, T.W. (1999). The diet of the long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes). Australian Journal of Ecology 24: 151-156.

Tory, M.K., May. T.W., Keane, P.J. & Bennett, A.F. (1997). Mycophagy in small mammals: a comparison of the occurrence and diversity of hypogeal fungi in the diet of the long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus and the bush rat Rattus fuscipes from south-western Victoria. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 460-470.

Brown-May, A. & May, T.W. (1997). 'A mingled yarn': Henry Edwards (thespian & naturalist) in the Austral land of plenty 1853-1866. Historical Records of Australian Science 11: 407-418.

May, T.W. & Maroske, S. (1996). Ferdinand von Mueller, exhibitioner extraordinaire. Victorian Naturalist 113: 143-145.

May, T.W. & Wood, A.E. (1995). Nomenclatural notes on Australian macrofungi. Mycotaxon 54: 147-150.

May, T.W. & Fuhrer, B.A. (1995). Nyctalis paradoxa (Fungi: Agaricales), a new species from Australia. Muelleria 8: 385-390.

May, T.W. (1995). Notes on Protoglossum (Fungi: Cortinariales). Muelleria 8: 287-289.

Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. (1994). Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 251-275.

Watling, R., Gill, M., Giménez, A. & May, T,W. (1992). A new styrylpyrone-containing Cortinarius from Australia. Mycological Research 96: 743-748.

Books

May, T.W., Milne, J., Shingles, S. & Jones, R.H. (2003) Catalogue and bibliography of Australian fungi. 2. Basidiomycota p.p. & Myxomycota p.p. Fungi of Australia Volume 2B. ABRS/CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

May, T.W. & Wood, A.E. (1997) Catalogue and bibliography of Australian macrofungi 1. Basidiomycota p.p. Fungi of Australia Volume 2A. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.

Scott, G.A.M., Entwisle, T.J., May, T.W. & Stevens, G.N. (eds) (1997) A conservation overview of Australian non-marine lichens, bryophytes, algae and fungi. Environment Australia: Canberra.

Book chapters

May, T.W. (2003). Conservation of Australian fungi: knowledge is the key. In C.L. Brown, F. Hall & J. Mill (Eds), Plant Conservation: approaches and techniques from an Australian perspective. Module 9. pp. 1-16. Australian Network for Plant Conservation, Canberra.

May, T.W. (1997). Laccaria. In C.A. Grgurinovic, Larger fungi of South Australia, pp. 296-310. The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium and The Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks Committee: Adelaide.

May, T.W. & Simpson, J.A. (1997). Fungal diversity and ecology in eucalypt ecosystems. In J. Williams & J. Woinarski (Eds), Eucalypt Ecology: individuals to ecosystems. pp. 246-277. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

May, T.W. & Pascoe, I.G. (1996). History of the taxonomic study of Australian Fungi. Fungi of Australia. 1A: 171-206.

May, T.W. (1997). Fungi. In G.A.M. Scott, T.J. Entwisle, T.W. May & G.N. Stevens (Eds), A conservation overview of Australian non-marine lichens, bryophytes, algae and fungi, pp. 49-74. Environment Australia: Canberra.

May, T.W. (1990). History of the study of Australian Agaricales. In P.S. Short (Ed.), History of systematic botany in Australia, pp. 265-272. Australian Systematic Botany Society: South Yarra.