Fungal Diversity Revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 Million Species

By D. L. Hawksworth, R. Lücking. Microbiology spectrum, 2017

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Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “First, the fungal kingdom is very diverse, estimated to include two to four million species (Blackwell, 2011; Hawksworth & Lücking, 2017).”
The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications (2018, background): “8 million species of heterotrophic eukaryotes, most of which are inconspicuous and substrate-dwelling (1).”
Integrative approaches for species delimitation in Ascomycota (2021, background): “2014), and most recently between 2.2 and 3.8 million (Hawksworth and Lücking 2017).”
Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa (2020, background): “It must always be borne in mind that the classifications being proposed now are based on only perhaps 3-8 % of the fungal species present on Earth today (Hawksworth & Lücking 2017).”
What is a species in fungal plant pathogens? (2021, background): “The fungal kingdom is thought to comprise between 2.2 and 3.8 million species, with 2–3 million yet to be discovered (Hawksworth and Lucking 2017; Hyde et al.”