This website has been archived.

At this point in time, we are unable to maintain this website in a way that meets current UK accessibility requirements. To ensure continued access to the wealth of information it contains, we have archived the website and made the data available for download.

The Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota website pages are no longer available.

Data and resources that were previously published here have been moved to a secure SFTP download area.

No new updates will be made to this site.

Accessing the archived data

The archived data for the Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota provides information on all species of the fungal phylum Basidiomycota (including mushrooms and toadstools, bracket fungi, puffballs, earthstars and stinkhorns, club and coral fungi, tooth fungi, jelly fungi, rusts and smuts) recorded in the British Isles. The archive is based on the original database used to create the book version of the checklist published in 2005, and includes all subsequent updates up to 2020. The site was archived in December 2025..

The data has been made available in CSV format and you can download it from our sftp download site.

Why this change was necessary

UK accessibility regulations require public-facing websites to meet specific standards so that they are usable by as many people as possible.
The Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota website's underlying technology could not be updated to meet those standards, so archiving the site and providing the data in an alternative format was the most appropriate solution.