Thanks

MRDBID stands on work by many people. This page keeps the list, and it grows as people help.

The character list

Most of MRDBID's characters began with nolo_mode's list “Characters With Taxonomic Value For Stipitate-Lamellate Mushrooms”, first posted on Mushroom Observer in 2019; a shorter version is the iNaturalist guide “Intro To Identifying Fungi”. nolo_mode gave permission to use it in November 2026. nolo_mode has also started myceliome.com, a mushroom community for the people of Thailand (open to visitors in Thailand).

nolo_mode in turn credits the people and places the list grew from:

• Gastón Guzmán (1932–2016), Mexican mycologist, whose literature shaped it.
• Alan Rockefeller, through personal correspondence.
• Else Vellinga, whose glossary in Flora Agaricina Neerlandica vol. 1 (Bas, Kuyper, Noordeloos & Vellinga, eds, 1988), which nolo_mode recommends to others.
• Mushroom Observer, where the list was first shared.

Others whose work has helped

• Alan Rockefeller, whose dikarya.us tools make specimen labels and sequence comparisons.
• Stephen Russell of Mycota Lab, the lab behind MycoMap's sequencing.
• Harte Singer, author of the guidebook for the DNAMA Volunteer Sequence Validation Corps, whose volunteers check MycoMap DNA sequences.
• Elora Adamson, who coordinates MycoMap BC.
• Kem Luther, co-author with Andy MacKinnon of Mushrooms of British Columbia (Royal BC Museum, 2021).
• Marshall Archibald.

And many others. Thank you.

Data and pages

Every source behind a value on this site has its own page, with its license: see Sources. Brian Hunt's Lumen Granuli Praecisi page is hosted here for him.

Where people disagree

Mycologists do not always agree on terms or on values. MRDBID keeps every sourced statement side by side and never lets one replace another; see How this works. Thanks on this page does not mean anyone named here endorses any value on the site.