there are many species of fungi including lichen-forming species, and the mycobiota is less poorly known than in many other parts of the world. the most recent checklist of basidiomycota (bracket fungi, jelly fungi, mushrooms and toadstools, puffballs, rusts and smuts), published in 2005, accepts over 3600 species. the most recent checklist of ascomycota (cup fungi and their allies, including most lichen-forming fungi), published in 1985, accepts another 5100 species. these two lists did not include conidial fungi (fungi mostly with affinities in the ascomycota but known only in their asexual state) or any of the other main fungal groups (chytridiomycota, glomeromycota and zygomycota). the number of fungal species known very probably exceeds 10,000. there is widespread agreement among mycologists that many others are yet to be discovered.