Fungi named in 1988

Golovinomyces cichoracearum is a species of powdery mildew in the family Erysiphaceae. It is found in North America and Eurasia, where it affects salsifies (Tragopogon) and snakeweeds (Scorzonera).

Amanita flavescens is a species of Amanita found in Sweden and Norway.

Thecaphora solani, also known as potato smut, is a fungal plant pathogen. It affects plants, primarily potatoes, in the Andean part of South America. This disease of potatoes has caused reports of crop losses of up to 80 percent in South America.

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Pleurosticta acetabulum is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It is common and widespread throughout Europe, where it grows on tree bark. It has also been recorded in Algeria.

Phlebopus marginatus, commonly known as the salmon gum mushroom in Western Australia, is a member of the Boletales or pored fungi. An imposing sight in forests of south-eastern and south-western Australia, it is possibly Australia's largest terrestrial mushroom, with the weight of one specimen from Victoria recorded at 29 kg (64 lb). Initially described in 1845 as Boletus marginatus, and also previously known by scientific names such as Phaeogyroporus portentosus and Boletus portentosus, it is not as closely related to typical boletes as previously thought.

The Ophioparmaceae are a small family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Umbilicariales.

Caecomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Neocallimastigaceae.

Meripilus sumstinei, commonly known as the giant polypore or the black-staining polypore, is a species of fungus in the family Meripilaceae.

Golovinomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae. It has 66 species. Many of the species cause powdery mildew. Golovinomyces was originally circumscribed in 1978 by Uwe Braun as a section of genus Erysiphe. It was promoted to distinct genus status in 1988.

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Austroomphaliaster is a fungal genus in the family Tricholomataceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Austroomphaliaster nahuelbutensis, also known as the big puma fungus, the species is found in temperate South America. This species lives on Patagonian oak trees, Dombey’s beech trees, and caves. In May 2023, specimens of the formerly lost fungus were found in caves of the Nahuelbuta Mountains in Chile in an expedition by Fungi Foundation and Fundación Nahuelbuta under Re: Wild's search for lost species initiative. Prior to its rediscovery in 2023, the species was only

Armillaria sinapina is a species of mushroom in the family Physalacriaceae.

Amanita sinicoflava, the mandarin yellow ringless amanita, is an edible species of fungus in the large genus Amanita. Fruitbodies have yellow-olivaceous or olive-tan caps that measure 2.5–7 centimetres (1–3 inches) in diameter. There are grooves on the cap margin that extend about 40% of the distance from the margin to the apex. The spores are spherical or nearly so, typically measuring 9.1 to 12.2 micrometres (0.36 to 0.48 mils) by 8.4 to 11.5 μm (0.33 to 0.45 mils). The white stipe is ornamented with slightly darker fibrils, and there are sac-like remnants of the volva at the stipe base.

Acaulospora gedanensis is a species of fungus in the family Acaulosporaceae. It forms arbuscular mycorrhiza and vesicles in roots. Found in Poland growing under Festuca ovina, it was described as a new species in 1988.

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Rigidoporus laetus is a species of polypore fungus in the family Meripilaceae. It was originally described in 1883 as Polyporus laetus by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. Peter Buchanan and Leif Ryvarden transferred it to Rigidoporus in 1988. Found in south Australia, the fungus is a plant pathogen that causes white rot in Eucalyptus.

Pseudocyphellaria haywardiorum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Peltigeraceae. It is found in New Zealand, where it is considered "at risk" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. Pseudocyphellaria haywardiorum has a more or less circular thallus measuring 30–80 mm in diameter, loosely attached from its edges to its centre, featuring rising wavy margins with rounded lobes that overlap in a complex pattern. The upper surface varies in colour from dark grey-blue to brown-black, becoming darker at the lobe tips when moist, and displays a

Piromyces is a genus of fungi in the family Neocallimastigaceae.

Hebeloma pseudoamarescens is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae.

Golovinomyces orontii is a species complex of powdery mildew fungi in the family Erysiphaceae. It is found around the world where it infects plants in various families. What was formerly thought to be a single species is likely to be a complex of multiple cryptic species, with Golovinomyces orontii sensu stricto infecting plants such as Misopates.

Entyloma ageratinae, commonly known as the mist flower smut, is a species of leaf smut fungus. As a plant pathogen, it is widely employed as a biological herbicide in the control of Ageratina riparia, an ornamental plant which is native to Mexico, but now invasive in a variety of tropical climates. The fungus was given its current scientific name and classified within the genus Entyloma in 1988. E. ageratinae grows exclusively on A. riparia plants in the wild, though specimens of Ageratina adenophora have contracted the fungus in laboratory trials. On A. riparia, the fungus forms lesions on

Entomophaga maimaiga is a Japanese fungus which has shown striking success in managing spongy moth populations in North America.

Diploschistes diacapsis (also called the desert crater lichen) is a ground-dwelling crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It forms a thick, pale grey to greyish-white crust that cracks into small patches. Its fruiting bodies (apothecia) are sunken and often dusted with a powdery coating (pruina), and it produces brown, muriform (multichambered) ascospores. The lichen body (thallus) contains lecanoric and diploschistesic acids. The species typically grows in arid and semi-arid regions on calcium-rich or gypsum soils, where it can form extensive pale carpets within biological soil crusts

Acaulospora thomii is a species of fungus in the family Acaulosporaceae. It forms arbuscular mycorrhiza and vesicles in roots. Found in Poland growing under Triticum aestivum, it was described as a new species in 1988.

Xanthoparmelia angustiphylla is a foliose lichen that belongs to the genus Xanthoparmelia.

Wielandomyces is a fungal genus in the family Bolbitiaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Wielandomyces robustus, found in Europe. The genus and species were described by Jörg Raithelhuber in 1988.

Verrucaria simplex is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. Found in Europe and Asia, it was described as new to science in 1988 by lichenologist Patrick McCarthy. The type specimen was collected by Brian Coppins from Morpeth, Northumberland; there, it was found growing on a fragment of mortar-cement lying on the floor of a woodland. The lichen was later reported from the Czech Republic, and Korea.

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Thujacorticium is a genus of corticioid fungi in the Cyphellaceae family. The genus, circumscribed by J. Ginns in 1988, contains two species.