Fungi with prominent hairlike rhizomorphs, aerial habit, sparse small sporophores, and usually saprotrophic biology are commonly known as ‘horsehair or spider fungi’. The earliest descriptions of them, from the mid-late 1800s, were published from Australian material under the names Marasmius crinis-equi and M. equicrinis . For the original ‘horsehair fungus’, we review this early historical material, briefly explore the change...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder occurring in 5–6% of school-aged children. Converging evidence suggests that dysfunction within cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar networks may contribute to motor deficits in DCD, yet limited research has examined the brain morphology of these regions. Using T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging the current study investigated cortical and subcort...