MYCOLOGY                                                                                 (still under construction !)

Introduction.

I used to pick mushrooms already in my early childhood along with my parents in the woods where we lived, and in the early 50-ties there was not many people who dared to eat them ! At that time, however, we picked mainly chantarelles.

Not untill 1978, I begin to extend my knowledge on other edible fungi, and in a rather short time I discovered the rich diversity of mushrooms in my surroundings, and the apparently thousands of "unknowns"  not illustrated in common books on fungi! I got fascinated, and subsequently I increased my knowledge in the years to come, thanks mostly to the late Wilhelm Ramm (1921-1982), a local, very knowledgeable man, who had collected and studied  all kinds of fungi in our municipality ever since the late 40-ties, and he became an inspirator and mentor, although he unfortunately past away much to early.

And at that time I got company with my good friend Øyvind Weholt, and we got mutually  inspirated and extended our knowledge. He mostly with the agarics, while I focused on the cup-fungi (Pezizales). And we became in 1979 members of the Mycological society of Fredrikstad, founded by Thor Dybhavn 1973.

....to be continued

RESEARCH FIELDS:

* Evolution, taxonomy and phylogeny of operculate discomycetes (order Pezizales, Ascomycota).

* Ecology of Pezizales.

* Arctic and alpine mycology with emphasis on the Pezizales.

* Conservation and preservation of endagered, vulnerable and rare fungal localities.

* Entomopathogenic  fungi

* Sclerotinaceous fungi. 

http://biologi.uio.no/bot/ascomycetes/Taxa/Stromatinia.html

* Hygrophoraceae and their ecology

* Deep mycology, philosophical mycology and   mycosophical considerations 

New species, varieties and forma originally described from the county of Østfold, Norway.

• NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED BY  ROY KRISTIANSEN
   

  Name	Reference
  Morchella pseudoviridis Jct.
  Morchella pseudoumbrina Jct.
  Morchella conicopapyracea Jct
  Morchella eximioides  Jct.
  Morchella norvegiensis  Jct.
  Myriosclerotinia luzulae	Schum. & Kohn
  Entoloma kristiansenii	Noordeloos
  Lamprospora kristiansenii	Benkert
  Ascorhizoctonia ascophanoides	Yang & Kristiansen
  Marcelleina pseudoanthracina   comb.nov.	Kristiansen & J. Morav.
  Lamprospora norvegica Benkert	Aas  & Kristiansen
  Boudiera acanthospora forma alba	Kristiansen
  Octospora subglobispora	Benkert (Leg. Sigurd Olsen)
  Moravecia hvaleri	Benkert & Kristiansen http://www.mycokey.com/MycoKeySolidState/genera/Moravecia.html
  Kotlabaea trondii	Benkert & Kristiansen. (Leg.T.Torjesen)
  Boubovia vermiphila	Brumm & Kristiansen. http://www.mycokey.com/MycoKeySolidState/genera/Boubovia.html

  OTHER DISCOVERIES OF RARE OR UNUSUAL SPECIES

http://biologi.uio.no/bot/ascomycetes/Taxa/Stromatinia.html http://www.mycokey.com/MycoKeySolidState/species/Stromatinia_rapulum.html http://www.mycokey.com/MycoKeySolidState/species/Stromatinia_rapulum2.html

MEMORABILIA  IN MYCOLOGY:
 

Richard P. Korf  (19xx-     ),  American, world leading mentor on Discomycetes. http://www.mycotaxon.com/407korf324.pdf

Henry Dissing  (19xx -     ) Danish discomycetologist

Sigmund Sivertsen  (19xx -   ) Norwegian.  

Trond Schumacher (1949 -  )  Norw. Professor of Botany

 Dieter Benkert   (1933 -  )  German  expert on bryophilous discomycetes