Use this mycology utility to record or consistently classify a stated fungal morphology, culture, ecology, assay, cultivation, or microscopy observation for later expert review.

Growth form

Required string input.

Classify a lichen as crustose, foliose, or fruticose without assigning a universal growth rate; rates vary substantially among species and environments. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Growth form

The resulting growth form returned as a string.

• Fungal identification and susceptibility interpretation depend on specimen quality, developmental stage, medium, temperature, microscopy, molecular evidence, validated breakpoints, and taxonomic context. Pattern-based output is not an edibility, toxicity, infection, or treatment determination.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Preserve images, specimen and culture metadata, method and reference standard, use multiple characters or molecular confirmation, and refer clinical or poisoning questions to qualified services.

• CYP51 Azole Resistance Evidence Classifier

  Classify reported CYP51 resistance-marker and phenotypic susceptibility evidence without treating mutation count as a resistance score. Specific variants, fungal species, azole drug, and susceptibility results determine interpretation.

• Cap Margin Striation Classifier

  Classify an observed cap-margin striation pattern and explain the selected term without assigning an unsupported ordinal severity score.

• pH Preference Classifier

  Classify an observed optimum growth pH using caller-supplied boundaries; ecological pH preference labels do not have universal numeric cutoffs.