The Recently Extinct Fungi Database

The conservation status assigned to each entry should be taken as, to varying degrees, tentative. Cases where there is no suitable habitat left are rare, and they may still persist in captivity (knowingly or not). Thus an airtight case for extinction is very difficult to build. While most cases of rediscovery are due to a failure to have previously surveyed significant parts of known or suitable habitat. Or the organism was not, or at least should not, have been feared extinct in the first place. Decades without a record means absolutely nothing in and of itself. While the taxonomic validity or synonymy of a given taxon is somewhat subjective, and there is the very slight risk that a taxon will be (consciously or subconsciously) synonymised in order to reduce the number of extinctions.

Phylum: Ascomycota (Sac Fungi)

Class: Ascomycetes

Order: Pertusariales

Family: Megasporaceae

Class: Dothideomycetes

Order: Microthyriales

Family: Microthyriaceae

Class: Eurotiomycetes

Order: Eurotiales

Family: Trichocomaceae

Order: Onygenales

Family: Onygenaceae

Order: Pyrenulales

Family: Pyrenulaceae

Order: Verrucariales

Family: Verrucariaceae

Class: Lecanoromycetes

Order: Acarosporales

Family: Acarosporaceae

Order: Lecanorales

Family: Parmeliaceae

Order: Ostropales

Family: Graphidaceae

Order: Peltigerales

Family: Pannariaceae

Order: Teloschistales

Family: Teloschistaceae

Family: Physciaceae

Class: Leotiomycetes

Order: Erysiphales

Family: Erysiphaceae

Class: Sordariomycetes

Order: Hypocreales

Family: Hypocreaceae

Family: incertae sedis

Class: incertae sedis

Order: incertae sedis

Family: incertae sedis

Phylum: Basidiomycota

Class: Agaricomycetes

Order: Agaricales

Family: Agaricaceae

Family: Crepidotaceae

Family: Entolomataceae

Family: Hygrophoraceae

Family: Marasmiaceae

Family: Nidulariaceae

Family: Pleurotaceae

Family: Pluteaceae

Family: Psathyrellaceae

Family: Strophariaceae

Family: Tricholomataceae

Order: Boletales

Family: Boletaceae

Family: Sclerogastraceae

Order: Cantharellales

Family: Cantharellaceae

Order: Hysterangiales

Family: Hysterangiaceae

Order: Polyporales

Family: Polyporaceae

Order: Russulales

Family: Albatrellaceae

Family: Russulaceae

Class: Dacrymycetes

Order: Dacrymycetales

Family: Dacrymycetaceae

Phylum: Chytridiomycota

Class: Chytridiomycetes

Order: Spizellomycetales

Family: Olpidiaceae

Phylum: Entomophthoromycota

Class: Entomophthoromycetes 

Order: Entomophthorales

Family: Entomophthoraceae

Phylum: incertae sedis

Order: Mucorales

Family: Cunninghamellaceae

Notes:

¹ Taxonomic ranks encompassed by square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]") have no relevant subordinate taxa. That is, none of the species or subspecies included therein both a) survived at least until the late Pleistocene and b) are considered missing, extinct, rediscovered, or have been removed from these former categories due to taxonomic invalidity. This juxtaposition of non-empty and empty taxonomic units helps to identify potential instances of taxonomic bias in recent extinctions, and by extension those groups of organisms that may have an innate buffer against extinction.