A nomenclatural database of corticioid fungi (Hymenomycetes)

Version 2.1 (Dec 2009) by Erast Parmasto, Henrik Nilsson, and Karl-Henrik Larsson (photo: KH, EP, and HN)

Click here for a formal description of Cortbase v 2.02 and its functions. This is important information.
Click here to download the MS-DOS version of Cortbase v. 2.02. View the publication (Phyloinformatics 1:5, 2004). News

Check a name
Please provide the name of the species to be checked. Fuzzy matches allows minor misspellings but may also retrieve more matches.

Genus  Species
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Data on a species
Please provide the name of the species the data of which will be retrieved. Fuzzy matches allows minor misspellings but may also retrieve more matches.

Genus  Species
Disable fuzzy matches Enable fuzzy matches


List accepted and rejected corticioid species in a genus
Please provide the name of the genus the corticioid species of which will be listed. This function can also be accessed from the List all genera in Cortbase function below if you are uncertain as to what genus you have in mind.

Genus


Check herbarium for type specimens


Names by an author
This function will retrieve all records by the author you specify (the function is still somewhat experimental). Make sure you use the proper author codes / abbreviations.

Author code / abbreviation


Suggest species from [partial] epithet
This function will return all species where the input word matches the species epithet or represents a logical subset thereof. Wildcards are both leading and trailing; acul will return matches such as maculata, aculeifera , and nuda ssp. maculiformis. At least four (alphabetical) characters must be specified; the more characters, the more precision in the list of hits.

[Partial] Epithet


Miscellaneous functions


News
Physical contact address: Erast Parmasto, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 181 Riia St., 51014 Tartu, Estonia, and
Tartu University, Museum of Natural History, 14-A Ravila St., 50411 Tartu, Estonia.

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