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AUSTRALASIAN MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE
MONDAY, 8 MAY 2000

The Gallery Function Room
Quality Hotel Te Anau
20 Lakefront Drive
Te Anau
New Zealand.
ph. +64 3 249 7421; fax. +64 3 249 8037.

PROGRAMME

8.50 Welcome
9.00 Edible Mycorrhizal Mushrooms
Wang Yun* & Ian R. Hall
9.20 A Preliminary Study of Gymnopilus in New Zealand.
Anne-Maree Oliver* & David Orlovich
9.40 The Use of Chemistry in the Taxonomy of Dermocybe
Rodney Hilton Jones
10.00 Fungi of New Zealand (Agarics, Boletes)—Actual Data Pool, Ecology, and Endemism
Egon Horak
10.30 Morning tea
10.50 Wood Decay Potential of Basidiomycete Fungi from New Zealand Pinus radiata.
A. Ah Chee*, R.L. Farrell, A. Stewart & R.A. Hill
11.10 Trametes versicolor (Linnaeus: Fries) Pilàt in Culture.
Alison Stringer* & Wang Yun
11.30 New Zealand’s Introduced Pathogenic Polypore Species: Distribution, and Taxonomic Differentiation from Indigenous Taxa.
Peter K. Buchanan
11.50 50 Years of Foraying—Past Places, Personalities, and Pilze!
Peter K.C. Austwick
12.10 3 minute presentations by each Poster Author
12.25 Poster Session
12.45 Lunch
2.05 Leaf Endophytes of Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa).
P.R. Johnston
2.25 Understanding the Diversity of Glomalean Fungi in Tropical Australian Habitats.
Mark Brundrett
2.45 Phylogenetic Relationships in the Lichen Genus Ramalina (Ramalinaceae: Lecanorales).
Nina Hesom-Williams*, Jennifer Bannister & David Orlovich
3.05 Afternoon tea
3.25 Nematophagous Fungi from New Zealand Farm Soils
Hamish McEwen
3.45 Biosecurity: Where are the Fungal Risks to New Zealand's Indigenous Forests.
Geoff S. Ridley
4.05 Origins of Myxomycete Associations of Coleoptera.
Richard A.B. Leschen