A Revised Checklist of Poisonous Mushrooms in China
This paper presents a new version of the list of poisonous mushrooms in China.Revised from the"List of poisonous mushrooms in China"formerly published in the journal of Mycosystema in Volume 33,Issue 3,2014,its main contents include the correction of wrong identification and wrong citations,the change of names,and the new species reported after the year of 2014.The new version lists a total number of 660 species,including 14 orders,58 families and 161 genera of poisonous mushrooms identified in China together with their Chinese names,the scientific Latin names,the types of poisoning recorded or investigated,and the relevant literatures as well.Essential correction of the Latin names of poisonous mushrooms used by mistake in the previous literatures has also been conducted that should provide basic information for the prevention and control of poisoning caused by poisonous mushrooms in future.