AuthorEllis, M.B. & J.P.
Year1998
TitleMicrofungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
ISBN0 85546 248 5
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteCovers about 730 species, comprising the majority of fungi growing on the relevant substrates that can be found, with hand lens or dissecting microscope, in Britain.
Source2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 246pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Illustrations56 pages containing over 500 original line drawings at the back.
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

An encyclopaedic and fairly comprehensive account of the microfungi that grow on various non-plant substrates in Britain. These comprise discomycetes, other ascomycetes, hyphomycetes, coelomycetes and phycomycetes, plus a handful of basidiomycetes on other fungi and on bryophytes.

The handbook is arranged in the following chapters:

Fungi Growing on or with Bryophytes
Bryophytes (Mosses and Liverworts): Host Index
Fungi on Fungi
Fungi: Host Index
Fungi on Myxomycetes
Fungi on burnt Ground and Charcoal
Fungi on Soil
Fungi on Dung
Fungi on Bones, Feathers, Paper, Cloth etc.
The larger chapters are broken down into groups of fungi (Discomycetes, Other Ascomycetes etc.). Each section begins with a key to genera; larger genera also have keys.

The final species accounts are quite short, but two thirds of them are illustrated with line drawings, principally of the microscopy.

Fungi parasitic on Rusts and Powdery Mildews are dealt with in "Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook", by the same authors.

Excludes fungi on Insects (eg Hypocreales, Entomophthorales and Laboulbeniomycetes)

Examine Compound Microscope ( Stereo Microscope is also useful)
Specimen PreparationMicroscopy of spores and related structures

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentASCOMYCOTAspore shooters, ascomyceteFungi
For identificationCurrent[Coelomycetes]stem- and leaf-fungiFungi
For identificationCurrent[Hyphomycetes]mouldsFungi
For identificationCurrentChromocyphella muscicolaMoss EarFungi: Agaricales: Chromocyphellaceae
For identificationCurrentEpisphaeria fraxinicolaa cyphelloid fungusFungi: Agaricales: Inocybaceae
For identificationCurrentArrheniaa genus of toadstoolsFungi: Agaricales: Tricholomataceae
For identificationCurrentMuscinupta laevisa cyphellaceous fungusFungi: Hymenochaetales
For identificationCurrentXenolachne longicornisa jelly fungusFungi: Tremellales: Sirobasidiaceae
For identificationCurrentTremella translucensa brain fungusFungi: Tremellales: Tremellaceae
For identificationCurrentZYGOMYCOTApin mouldsFungi
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