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/
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, 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]
…….Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened
…….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, some other shape- and miscellaneous
Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex)
…….Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter
…….Clubs/stalks on invertebrates
Coralloid fungi, markedly branched
…….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'
…….Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface
…….Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust
…….Moulds
…….Not moulds
LICHENS MOSSES & OTHER BRYOPHYTES
Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts
ALGAE, CYANOBACTERIA, OTHER BACTERIA AND VIRUSES
January 2025
