Most people will have seen some of the striking bright purple, red, green and yellow mushrooms in the Cortinarius genus. Our local Cortinarius expert, mycologist Beau Picking completed his masters degree untangling many of the different species in the Genera which he will discuss in this one hour talk.
These talks are fundraisers for the Wild Fungi DNA project. Any donation is very much appreciated.
http://myco.org.au/wild-dna-project/
An email with the zoom link will be sent out at 6:15pm, and the talk will start at 6:30pm AEST. This is to prevent zoom bombing. Please download and install zoom before hand.
About the speaker:
"I have been interested in mycology since my honours in 2009. Since then I have also undertaken a masters specialising in Mycological taxonomy which I finished in 2017. While I don't get to do as much mycology as I would like I do teach Biology and Botany at the University of Melbourne, and my students can always be sure that I will bring up fungi, even when I'm supposed to be teaching them about something else. My main mycological interests are taxonomy and co-evolution of plant fungi interactions, and I need to get better at my field identification skills.
My masters used the huge number of herbarium collections of Cortinarius species and molecular methods to detect and delimit species within the Splendidi sub-genus. Which was previously the genus Dermocybe."
