Myco-Consortium talk April 28: Martin Axegård
As part of the MST's membership in the Myco-Consortium series of Zoom talks, MST members are invited to join the presentation on Sunday, April 28th at 11:00am ET:
Not All Coral Fungi Are Ramaria: Field Characters and Taxonomy of Ramarioid Fungi Within the Order Gomphaceae
A talk by Martin Axegård
Sunday April 28th, 11:00am ET
About Martin Axegård
Martin Axegård fell down the Ramaria rabbit hole 3 years ago. Ramaria are some of the most conspicuous members of basidiomycota – colorful, prolific, and frequently growing to an impressive size. They have a reputation of being hard to identify. Martin took this “bad rep” as a provocation and leapt into all the literature on the subject, picking up basic mycological Italian along the way. He is now one of the top Ramaria experts in the EU, particularly in the Nordic countries, with a proficiency for identifying them by macroscopic characters. Over the past 2 years, he has sequenced over 500 collections of Ramaria, providing a more complete picture of species occurring in Sweden. This work has demonstrated that many species have a strictly boreal distribution and are undescribed. He is a board member of Stockholms svampvänner (‘Stockholm’s Mushroom Friends’).
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