This is a form to track any taxonomic updates and changes that contributors may want to propose for consideration to the British Mycological Society Field Mycology and Conservation Committee, as well as the evidence to support these changes, for implementation in various UK taxonomic databases.

Any updates and changes will be considered periodically and forwarded to the various dataset and checklist holders within the UK, including the British Mycological Society database (FRDBI - Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland); the Natural History Museum's UK Species Inventory; and RGB Kew's Basidiomycete and Ascomycete Checklists of Great Britain and Ireland.

The infrastructure to make these changes, and to flow into all collaborating databases in use, is still in development and may take some time to become properly functional. This work is also undertaken on a voluntary basis. We therefore request that users be patient in seeing any results of their recommendations being implemented.

It should be noted that approaches to taxonomic classification are not set in stone and that different user groups may prefer different approaches to classification. For example, field recorders may prefer to avoid the "splitting" of familiar taxon concepts into those identifiable only by DNA. Equally, some degree of caution and planning is needed before implementing sweeping changes in some taxonomic groups if there is a lack of freely available literature and guidebooks to support these changes, for example in accepting narrow species concepts in rust fungi without a reference text in English. Our approach is to increase the usefulness of taxonomic classification for all user groups (but particularly field mycologists) without adding to the already considerable confusion that is present in fungal taxonomy.

Any suggestions are therefore gratefully received for consideration, but are not guaranteed to be implemented in the near future.

Note that entries to this form can be edited using the "edit" link in the email received once completed.

Any additional queries can be addressed to Dr. Brian Douglas at britmycolsoc.dna.barcoding@gmail.com .