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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Kühner, R. and Romagnesi, H., 1957
Flore Analytique des Champignons Supˇrieurs
Reprinted 1974, 1978. Text in (fairly easy) French.
Covers "Higher Fungi": agarics, boletes, Russulales and chanterelles.
The work is principally an extended dichotomous key, broken into chapters for each of the major genera/groups. Each species has a short entry giving description, hosts, distribution and rarity. Numbered footnotes (in slightly more advanced French) at the end of each chapter present further observations and introduce related species.
Unlike Moser's work, when you get to an identification there is sufficient information that you can be reasonably confident.
Now very old and the taxonomy is dated, but still useful for the phenomenal amount of information it contains. The authors obviously knew the actual fungi, not just published descriptions. The keys generally work well. They are simplified by the absence of many modern species so can concentrate on the important features, eg the account of Psathyrella is very accessible. Not the first book I turn to, but when I'm stuck...
Followed by a series of 8 papers under the title "Compléments a la 'Flore analytique'" which consist of species diagnoses (with French descriptions and line drawings) to validate new species added in the present work. These were scattered amongst several journals, but are available as a single bound volume.
| Publisher |
Masson |
| Pages |
556 |
| ISBN |
2-225 53713-5 |
| Edition |
1 |
| Coverage |
Not comprehensive, but a good range of the species known at the time. |
| Illustrations |
Line drawings of fruitbodies and microscopy accompany the text. |
| Identify |
Under a Compound Microscope. |
| Specimen Prep. |
Microscopic preps of spores, cystidia etc usually required. |
| Difficulty |
Mostly straightforward, although some genera, especially Rhodophyllus (now Entoloma), are challenging. |
Malcolm Storey
Taxonomic Scope
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