Species Guide - Plants, Fungi, Lichens Mosses etc

Posted by MichaelBedingfield

TAXONOMY STRUCTURES FOR:

PLANTS, FUNGI, LICHENS MOSSES ETC, SLIME MOULDS AND ALGAE, CYANOBACTERIA ETC.

THAT IS, FOR NON-ANIMAL CATEGORIES.

Note that Marine organisms are not included.

Non-animals living organisms are divided into the categories of Plants; Fungi; Lichens, Mosses & other Bryophytes; Slime Moulds; Algae, Cyanobacteria, other bacteria and viruses.

These are the level one categories. These categories are then divided into sub-categories. For example, Plants are divided into Daisies, Lilies & Irises, Peas etc. These are called level two categories. Again some of these are further divided into lower level sub-categories. For example, Fungi are divided into level three categories. For example "Caps on stems with pores below caps" are divided into Boletes and Polypores. Slime Moulds and Algae, Cyanobacteria etc are only level one categories.

The lists shown here are for NatureMapr's national pages: https://naturemapr.org/

 

PLANTS

Daisies

Lilies & Irises

Peas

Other Wildflowers & Herbs

Orchids

Wattles

Gum Trees

Other Trees

Other Shrubs

Climbers & Mistletoes

Ferns and Clubmosses

Grasses

Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

Other Fresh Water Plants

Cacti & Succulents

Marine Water Plants

 

FUNGI

Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like]

Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores]

…….Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less)

…….Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral

Caps on stems; teeth below caps

Caps on stems; none of the above

…….Caps conical/spherical & deeply pitted [morels]

…….Caps saddle-like to markedly convoluted [false morels]

…….Caps funnel-like

…….Caps otherwise

Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]

……Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces

…….Gills connected by cross veins

…….Other caps, gills below, no stem

Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood

…….Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores]

…….Teeth on underside

…….Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened

Puffballs & the like

…….Simple spore sac, with an apical hole [puffballs]

…….Spore sac on a star-like base [earthstars]

…….Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top

…….Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores

…….Other puffballs, etc (& the unknowns)

Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime

…….Stinkhorns, radiating arms atop a stem

…….Stinkhorns, cage-like

…….Stinkhorns, some other shape- and miscellaneous

Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex)

…….Clubs/stalks on soil

…….Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter

…….Clubs/stalks on invertebrates

Coralloid fungi, markedly branched

Disk-like to cup-like

…….Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus]

…….Cups or disks - with no 'eggs'

Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes]

Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc

…….Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus]

…….Cups or disks - with no 'eggs'

Other fungi on wood

…….Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface

…….Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust

…….Other black fungi

…….Other non-black fungi

Truffles

Other fungi

…….Moulds

…….Not moulds

Uncategorised Fungi

 

LICHENS MOSSES & OTHER BRYOPHYTES

Lichens

Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts

 

SLIME MOULDS

 

ALGAE, CYANOBACTERIA, OTHER BACTERIA AND VIRUSES

 

 

                                                                             

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