BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Phillips, R., 1981

Mushrooms & other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe

A large number of species are covered, each illustrated by excellent colour photographs. These show several specimens of various ages and from different angles, and often a cross-section. For consistency of colour reproduction, they were photographed in the studio in controlled lighting conditions against plain dark paper.

Roger was a professional photographer before he got interested in fungi and this is evident in the quality of the photography.

This is still the best photographic guide to our macromycetes.

Note: A new enlarged edition is being prepared

Publisher

Pan Books (Pan)

Pages

287

ISBN

0 330 26441 9

Comments and Corrigenda

A series of articles in Field Mycology updates the nomenclature and corrects a few misidentifications:
"Update of Roger Phillips' Mushrooms and other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe", Field Mycology:

Part 1 - Vol 2(3) July 01, pp 90-93

Part 2- Vol 2(4) Oct 01, pp 126-131

Part 3 - Vol 3(1), Jan 02, pp 20-24

Parts 4 & 5 - Vol 3(2) April 02, pp 50-52 and 53-55

Further additions and corrections - Vol 3(4), Oct 02, pp137-139.

Coverage

A selection of common, larger basidiomycetes and ascomycetes.

Illustrations

High quality colour photographs throughout.

Identify

In the Hand (also useful to examine under a Compound Microscope).

Difficulty

Reliable identification of fungi requires microscopy and although this work offers a goodly number of photographs, it gives insufficient microscopic details for critical work.

News

After more than 20 years, a new expanded edition was published in 2006

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

ASCOMYCOTA Whittaker, 1959 (spore-shooters)	Identification	Current	A good selection of the larger common species.
Dumontinia tuberosa (Bull.) L.M. Kohn, 1979 (Anemone Cup)	Identification	Current	Shows Dumontinia tuberosa (as Sclerotinia tuberosa) on Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) - p275.
BASIDIOMYCOTA Whittaker, 1959 (spore droppers)	Identification	Current	A good number of species.
(Macrofungi) (Larger Fungi)	Identification	Current

Related Publications

Update - part 2	Henrici, A., 2001
Supplementary notes and corrections	Henrici, A., 2002
Update - part 5	Spooner, B., 2002
Update - part 4	Henrici, A., 2002
Update - part 3	Henrici, A., 2002
new edition	Phillips, R., 2006
Update - part 1	Henrici, A., 2001

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