“…Indeed, in South America, the interest in mycology has only begun in the 19th century (Montagne, ). In between, mycologists have gathered specimens throughout Amazonia (e.g., Henkel et al, ; Matheny, Aime, & Henkel, ; Sánchez‐García, Henkel, Aime, Smith, & Matheny, ; Singer & Aguiar, ; Trierveiler‐Pereira & Baseia, ; Vasco‐Palacios, Hernandez, Peñuela‐Mora, Franco‐Molano, & Boekhout, ). Nevertheless, the known distribution of neotropical fungi remains patchy and biased toward accessible sites (Roy et al, ; Sulzbacher, Grebenc, Giachini, Baseia, & Nouhra, ) and little is known on their ecology or their habitat.…”