Check out this short reflection by Jason Karakehian on his recent field-work trip to Mozambique:
We collected macro and microfungi in Gorongosa National Park (GNP), Mozambique from May 20 through June 17, 2016. In addition to me, participants included Dr. Teresa Iturriaga, who specializes in discomycetes or “cup-fungi,” Dr. Leif Ryvarden from Oslo, Norway who is a world expert in wood-decay fungi such as “crusts” and “polypores,” and educator and botanist Meg Coates Palgrave from Zimbabwe. Palgrave is the author of the revised and updated Trees of Southern Africa. Her expert identifications were invaluable to us. Voucher specimens were given “MOZ” collection numbers, and sent to our home institutions for final determinations. Duplicate specimens will be deposited in the herbaria at the E. O. Wilson Lab in GNP, the Eduardo Mondlane University in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo, as well as in the Farlow Herbarium and the Botanical Museum, Oslo, Norway. In all, 500 collections were made despite the drought that was affecting the area.