Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

Second Hand
Softcover
Author: Legon, N. and Henrici, A.
Published by: Kew
Language: English

Book Condition: Good+.
Lightly bumped, light thumbing to fore-edge, prev. owner sticker to half-title page, a species name from that page often hand written at top of the page to help with a flick-through search, otherwise clean. Cover protected in removable clear cover.
Exhaustive up-to-date listing of the larger fungi of the British Isles, with distribution notes, synonymy and other references.
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.
ISBN: 1842461214