Three reasons to re-evaluate fungal diversity 'on Earth and in the ocean'

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A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds in caves (2013, background): “Given the large number of undescribed fungal taxa (Hawsworth, 2001;; Bass & Richards, 2011), and the apparent rarity of many fungal species encountered in caves and mines, existing gene banks may lack the required sequences.”
Coastal marine habitats harbor novel early-diverging fungal diversity (2017, background): “Fungi are among the most diverse groups in Eukarya with estimates of total global diversity projecting upwards of 5.1 million species (O'Brien et al., 2005; Blackwell, 2011; Taylor et al., 2014).”
Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi (2013, background): “This half represents approximately 20 000 different species (Latin binomials), which corresponds to 0.2–4.5% of the estimated 0.5–10 million extant fungal species (Bass & Richards 2011; Blackwell 2011).”
Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life (2017, background): “Bass and Richards (2011) concluded that there is minimally one order of magnitude more fungal species than the ~128,000 currently known.”