🌍 The 41st SPNHC Annual Meeting is coming to the African continent for the first time! Join natural history professionals in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7 to 11 September 2026. ➡️ Check out our latest news announcement for further details: mycokeys.pensoft.net/news/1410 #SPNHC2026

🍄 Two new species of small mushroom have been discovered in Oman - Micropsalliota latiumbonata and M. striata, with the first often found growing around termite mounds, bringing the total known species in this genus to 108: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.192271

🍄 Two new fungal species, Leptobacillium doupengense and Metapochonia doupengshanensis, have been discovered in the humus of tree holes within a karst landscape in Guizhou, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.196582

🍄 Three new wood-decaying fungi species - Botryobasidium massonianae, Peniophorella crassibasidiata and Peniophorella variegata - have been discovered thriving on Masson pine trees: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.203862

🔬 Three new species of insect-infecting fungi - Ascopolyporus sinensis, Cordyceps anningensis and Hypocrella umbilicata - have been discovered and described by researchers surveying Yunnan Province, China. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.195207

🔬 Fungal surveys across Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces in south-western China have uncovered two new species, Minuticlypeus zunyiensis and Paravamsapriya yunnanensis: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.195655

🍄‍🟫 A fascinating new genus and species of fungus has been discovered - Elliptolagenoidisporium paris - growing on medicinal plants in the karst ecosystems of China's Guizhou Province. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.131.182322

🌵 Researchers have recently mapped the diverse fungal communities of Saudi Arabia. 🏜️ This new data provides an important roadmap for predicting how fragile desert ecosystems will shift as the global climate continues to change: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.130.176937

🔬 What a week it's been at #IAL10 this week! 📢 Here's another reminder that we've announced a new special issue! The Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL10) will be published in #MycoKeys: mycokeys.pensoft.net/issue/5223/ #IAL2026

🍃 Two new species of sooty mould fungus, Trichomerium guiyangense and T. xishuiense, have been discovered coating the leaves of living plants in Guizhou Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.177643

👋 It was a pleasure to welcome Sonia Ravera to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10 yesterday! 👉 Professor Ravera is an author in our journal - you can check out her co-authored paper on the lichen species Arthopyrenia parolinii here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1094... #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste

🙌 Yesterday, we welcomed one of our very own Editors-in-Chief, Thorsten Lumbsch, to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10! 👉 You can check out one of his recent co-authored papers on lichen diversity in forest ecosystems here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1175... #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

🌸 Two new species of yeast, Papiliotrema anthoicola and P. floralis, have been discovered living on flowers collected in Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand, including those of frangipani, cananga and orchid plants: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.199289

🙌 After yesterday's visits, today we welcomed even more of our journal's contributors to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10! 👋 Juri Nascimbene, a subject editor and author at our journal, dropped by to say hello. ➡️ You can check out one of his papers here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1542...

🦠 Yesterday at #IAL we caught a brilliant talk by one of our reviewers Martin Grube (Universität Graz) on lichens in motion! 🌿 The talk was a brilliant reminder that lichens are far from inert - they're mechanically responsive organisms with a lot still left to discover! #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste

Today at #IAL10 we heard Juri Nascimbene's talk on how historical herbaria reveal centuries of lichen change. He's a Subject Editor and author in our journal - read his latest: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1542... #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

🍄 We were excited to welcome Dr Muhammad Usman (Natural History Museum, London) to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10! 🔗 You can access one of his articles here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/26743/ #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

🌿 We're having a brilliant time at #IAL10 in Trieste, meeting so many wonderful lichenologists from across the globe! 📚 If you're around, do stop by our booth to chat about our journals covering lichenology and related fields - we'd love to hear about your research. #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

🙌 We were delighted to meet so many of our wonderful authors at #IAL10! ⬇️ Pier Luigi Nimis of @unitrieste.bsky.social stopped by to say hello. His latest paper in our open-access journal can be accessed here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1542...

🎉 We were delighted to meet one of our journal's authors, Edyta Mazur, at #IAL10 today! ➡️ Check out her study here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1523... #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

We're at #IAL2026 and look who stopped by @pensoft.net's stand, Dr. Martin Westberg from Museum of Evolution - Uppsala University, who is a very prolific author at our journal! Check out some of his #openaccess publications: 👉 doi.org/10.3897/myco... 👉 doi.org/10.3897/myco...

@pensoft.net is heading to the 4th BioSyst EU meeting in Uppsala, Sweden (17-19 Aug)! Visit the publisher's stand to chat about their open-access journal portfolio, new journal titles, and the @arphahub.com platform: mycokeys.pensoft.net/news/1356 #BioSystEU2026

Pensoft to attend the 4th BioSyst EU meeting in Uppsala, Sweden

Between 17-19 August 2026, Pensoft will exhibit at the 4th BioSyst EU meeting, taking place in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference is organized by the Swedish Systematics Association.The three-day co...

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🌍 We're at #IAL10 in Trieste (26-31 July), where lichenologists are exploring taxonomy, biodiversity, ecophysiology, biomonitoring, and more. 📖 We're also hosting a special issue on lichen symbiosis - more info here: mycokeys.pensoft.net/issue/5223/

🧪 Three new species of lichen in the genus Sarcogyne have been discovered in China, and a species previously unrecorded in the country was also newly reported, whilst an identification key was compiled for all pruinose Acarosporaceae species known in the country: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.201158

🪵 Three new fungal species in the genus Phaeoisaria have been discovered on decaying wood in Yunnan, China, alongside the confirmed presence of a related species previously known only from Germany: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.199957

🍄 Surveys of freshwater fungi in the Philippines have uncovered three new species of Distoseptispora, expanding the known diversity of this genus in tropical aquatic habitats. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.198252

🌳 A new fungal pathogen, Lasiodiplodia carlesii, has been identified as the cause of severe canker and dieback disease in Castanopsis plantations in China, an economically important genus of evergreen trees. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.184738

🍄 Two new fungal species - Parafenestella cupressicola and P. xizangensis - have been discovered inside Cypress and Rose trees in Xizang. 🌲 These findings have shown that the known range of Parafenestella fungi is wider than previously realised: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.137.197730

Two new #fungal species from decaying wood in northeast China have been described - Chromolaenicola crataegicola and Paraphaeosphaeria fulva. Both show antibacterial/antifungal activity, hinting at potential as biopesticide sources: doi.org/10.3897/myco...

First taxonomic revision of the lichen genus Willeya in China yields two new species - W. bispora and W. guizhouensis, plus two new country records, W. japonica and W. protrudens. Based on morphology, multi-gene phylogenetics, and chemistry: doi.org/10.3897/myco...