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Recent activities and prospects in the field of assembling and managing data on Italian macrofungi are reviewed. A project for recording and mapping fungi is being promoted by the mycology working group of the Italian Botanical Society, in conjunction with two amateur societies already active in the field (Associazione Micologica "Bresadola" and Unione Micologica Italiana). To date, a chorological survey of the Alto Adige region is nearly completed, and mycological data bank for the Piedmont region exists that is part of a wider system of regional naturalistic data banks and provides for both chorological and ecological surveys. It is planned to extend the coverage of these regional surveys countrywide, starting with the preliminary test mapping of 400 selected species