Author(s): N.W. Legon & A. Henrici (eds.)
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens (17 July 2005) (Kew
Publishing, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1842461214
ISBN-13: 978-1842461211
Paperback: 536 pages
Description
The first comprehensive checklist of the fungi of
Great Britain and Ireland, providing publication references and brief habitat,
frequency and distribution details for all 3,760 species of mushroom,
toadstool, bracket fungus, puffball, earthstar, stinkhorn, club and coral,
tooth and jelly, fungus as well as the rusts and smuts, recorded in the British
Isles. References are also given for a further 12,500 synonyms and excluded
taxa (many being old or doubtful names), with notes on the reasons for their
exclusion from the current listing.
An essential companion for amateur and professional
mycologists, and a valuable reference tool for all wildlife recorders,
ecologists and conservationists.