Truffles are the spore-bearing fruiting bodies of subterranean ascomycete fungi across dozens of genera in the Pezizales ...

Then came the observation than in fact lichen harbors two types of fungi—an ascomycete and a newly identified basidiomycete yeast. The team that had made this discovery has now found a third fungal ...

The Museum no longer keeps collections of non-lichenised ascomycetes or basidiomycetes. This material was transferred to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on permanent loan. The collections contain ...