Survey and laboratory methods Macrofungi are distinguished by having fruiting structures visible to the naked eye (Lodge et al. 2004). We recorded the presence/absence of all Ascomycota and all gilled and aphyllophoraceous Basidiomycota, including thin, filmy or crustose species, on all woody substrata, living or dead. The inventories in each of the 25 subplots of each of the four plots were made during 30 visits to each plot (excepting one missed visit to ‘1898/1934’) at approximately fortnightly intervals from May 2006 to Jul 2007. Species known to the authors were named (if validly published) using May&Wood (1997), May et al. (2002), the interactive list of fungi on the website of the Royal Botanic
Gardens Melbourne (http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au) and Index Fungorum (http://www.speciesfungorum.org). Unpublished
familiar species were recorded using ‘tag names’. Those species new to the authors were described from fresh material
with written descriptions (colour followed Kornerup & Wanscher 1978), photographs, drawings and micrographs of
microscopic features. Fruit bodies were then dried for 24 hr in a Sunbeamª food dehydrator to provide voucher material for deposit in the Tasmanian Herbarium (HO). The majority of the tag species’ were confidently assigned to genus level with veryfew unidentified beyond family status.