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Index Fungorum is a community resource currently co-ordinated and supported by the following partnership (IFP): CABI Bioscience (United Kingdom), the Centraalbureau vor Schimmelcultures (Netherlands) and Landcare Research (New Zealand).
Certain data elements (name string, author string, year of publication) from the Index of Fungi, which is a publication compiled by CABI Bioscience, are made available through Index Fungorum. It is free of any charge to the community on a non-commercial use basis, and should be cited as www.indexfungorum.org.
The world database of fungal names (IndexFungorum; a.k.a. funindex) contains over 345,000 names of fungi (including yeasts, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms) at species level and below. It has been derived from a number of published lists including Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum (contributed by SBML, USDA), Petrak’s Lists, Saccardo’s Omissions, Lamb’s Index, Zahlbruckner’s Catalogue of Lichens (comprehensive for names at species level only but with an increasing number of names of infraspecific taxa) and CABI’s Index of Fungi.
These data are made available by the IFP through its website at www.indexfungorum.org and is searchable via www.indexfungorum.org/names/names.asp with web services at www.indexfungorum.org/ixfwebservice/fungus.asmx. Of course, these names will also be available via the GBIF data portal.
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