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Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland (British Mycological Society)

The Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland (a.k.a. BMSFRD) contains records of fungi from forays of the British Mycological Society, various surveys (e.g. SNH waxcap grassland survey), forays of the many local recording groups, individuals, and published records of British fungi from the Transactions of the British Mycological Society, the Bulletin, and their successors: Mycological Research, Mycologist, Field Mycology and other publications (data collection sponsored by JNCC; see Cannon, Mycologist 12(1): 25, 1998). See more at: https://basidiochecklist.science.kew.org/BritishFungi/FRDBI/FRDBI.asp
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Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland. Occurrence dataset (ID: 9a329760-bdae-4e98-97ae-c64aaca653e3) accessed via the Mycology Collections Portal Portal, www.mycoportal.org/portal, 2025-10-28).

Collection Statistics

  • 1,085,628 specimen records
  • 1,085,628 (100%) georeferenced
  • 1,074,257 (99%) identified to species
  • 431 families
  • 2,587 genera
  • 11,011 species
  • 11,505 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 September 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File
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