The American Southwest and northern Mexico harbor remarkable lichen diversity, yet many regions remain poorly documented. We will conduct targeted field surveys, preserve voucher specimens, identify c...

Probably Siphula coriacea, which is widespread in SW Australia. Growing in moss beds on Sullivan Rock.

We describe the new species Caeruleum terricola from Grootbos Private Nature Reserve in the Overstrand Municipality of Western Cape Province, South Africa. The new species occurs on consolidated soil ...

The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.

An incredible story of returning one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home – more than 350 miles away.

As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

Plant–fungal symbiotic associations benefit initial plant adaptation to droughty terrestrial ecosystems. Although information on mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi in drought-resistant mechanisms in cro...

Fungus lives within cyanobacterial sheaths in a thallus-forming symbiosis, named “phyllosymbia.”

The show’s starring scientist finds a mushroom that can heal any ailment. But powerful people will do anything to stop him from cultivating it.