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Results from a questionnaire on the status of taxonomic research and teaching in mycology demonstrate that taxonomic mycology is greatly neglected. Only 15 researchers in universities and 17 in other institutions in Australia spend at least some of their time on taxonomic mycology. This compares with 114 taxonomists employed in Australian institutes to work on vascular plants. The situation is critical as there is very little undergraduate or postgraduate training in taxonomic mycology in universities. Few Australian herbaria hold mycological specimens and the number of specimens is small in contrast to that of vascular plant specimens in these institutions.
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Grgurinovic, C., Hyde, K.D. The status of taxonomic mycology in Australia in 1991. Australasian Plant Pathology 22, 42–47 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1071/APP9930042
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