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Welcome to MycoKey
– the mycological information site

Created by Jens H. Petersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
& Thomas Læssøe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Comments or problems, please e-mail Jens H. Petersen
Hosted by the University of Aarhus

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News:
Through a partnership with Funga Nordica we can now offer the latest version of MycoKey (3.2) with analytical keys to more than 2600 species of agarics, boletes and cyphellaceous fungi from Northern Europe.

Try the key to the genus Amanita HERE or in the trial version of MycoKey, then get access to all other 196 species keys from within MycoKey after paying your license.

On the online front we have discovered and solved a bug in the Morphing Mushroom Identifier causing the second and following searches to perform incorrectly in some browsers.

MycoKey identification

MycoKey is a fungus identification and information system. In MycoKey you can search for genera and species or use the dynamic, morphing mushroom identifier to name your specimens and find thousands of photos and descriptions, more . . .

Perform a Quick-search in MycoKey.
Try MycoKeys online Morphing Mushroom Identifier(MMI) beta.
See the MycoKey picture overview.

Download MycoKey 3.2, now including Funga Nordicas analytical keys to 2600 agaric and boletes of Northern Europe (Online or installed version?).
Go to our secure shop and buy a license for MycoKey 3.2.

Problems with MycoKey? Try our FAQ pages.
Read selected reviews of MycoKey.

Site contents: (optimized for Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 7 and 8)

MycoWorld

MycoWorld navigator to major mycological image collections.
Selected mycological links.
The fungi of Ecuador, with more than 3500 species.
The fungi of Burkina Faso (West Africa).

other stuff

The Ascomycote workshop pages, go there . . .
Download pdf-resources (mostly in Danish), go there . . .
Jens H. Petersens myco-art and other pictures, go there . . .