History of Italian mycology and first contribution to the correct nomenclature of mushrooms
In 2007, the Nature Defence Department of the Italian Environment Protection Agency (APAT), together with the “Associazione Micologica Bresadola” (the largest Mycological Association in Italy), established the “Special Fungi Project”, to help providing unconventional tools, valid for the whole Nation, to assess environmental quality using fungi as biological indicators.
The project, currently inherited by ISPRA, provides for the sampling in the field of fungal material, its identification and preservation, in order to set up a national inventory of mycological flora.
This manual is consisting in three parts: a first, historical, and two dedicated, respectively, to the names of more than seven thousand mushrooms, and to the correct name abbreviations of fungal taxa authors. It was edited on the basis of nomenclature rules in force since 2012, as defined in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) (the so-called Melbourne Code). In the intentions of its proposers, it would represent a basic tool to overcome the lack of a terminological homogeneity, due to the diversity of taxonomic classifications.
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