| Author | Noordeloos, M.E. |
| Year | 1992 |
| Title | Entoloma s.l. |
| Series | Fungi Europaei |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All 246 European species known at the time. |
| Source | Fungi Europaei, Vol 5, 760pp, Biella Giovanna |
| Illustrations | Line drawings accompany text, followed by 88 colour plates of water colours at the back |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Lavishly produced with Italian and English text, this work is the culmination of 18 years’ work on the genus. The authoritative work for years to come - or so we thought until Machiel produced the equally thick 2004 supplement! The keys to genera and species are grouped near the start (page 85). They place much reliance on difficult microscopic characters like whether pigment is encrusting or intracellular, and presence of clamps at the base of the basidia. (In practice woodland Leptonia have clamped basidia and the grassland spp don’t.) The species entries, in Italian and English, are reasonably detailed and the line drawings are clear. The paintings are good and a representative selection of fruitbodies of most species are illustrated.
An annoying feature is the multiple indexes which makes it unnecessarily difficult to find a species. |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope |
| Specimen Preparation | Microscope slide preps always needed. |
| Identification difficulty | A difficult group. Water colours rarely convey the appearance in sufficient detail for such similar looking fungi. |
