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Pegler, D.N. & Young, T.W.K., 1973

Basidiospore form in the British species of Ganoderma Karts

Pegler and Young give Ganoderma their usual treatment. As usual, the work includes a key to British species and electron photo-micrographs of spores.

Journal Kew Bulletin
Volume 28 (3)
Page range 351-363
Coverage All the British species known at the time.
Illustrations Numerous SEM photographs, spore drawings and diagrams of spore and wall sections.
Identify Under a Compound Microscope.
Specimen Prep. Spore prints or spores scraped off top of bracket, substrate, surrounding vegetation etc. Context and/or pileal crust may also need to be examined.

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Taxonomic Scope

Ganoderma P. Karst., 1881 (a genus of bracket fungi) Identification Current

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