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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Taylor, A.S. & Alexander, I., 2005
The ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: life in the real world
Ectomycorrhiza involve c. 7-10,000 species of fungi and c. 8,000 species of plants, including the dominant components of many woodland and forest ecosystems.
Between 3 and 14 million root tips or 1800km of hyphae are required to build a single Cep.
The root tip fungal mantle is the likely storage area for N and P required to build sporocarps.
Defenses, eg cystidia, on the mantle surface are discussed.
| Journal |
Mycologist |
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Volume 19, Part 3 |
| Page range |
102-112 |
| Comments and Corrigenda |
Vol 20, Page 14 contains an erratum on page 106 "by the same line of reasoning, the confirmation that Pakaraimaea, the S. American genus, is also ectomycorrhizal, (B. Moyersoen, unpublished data) sets the ECM origin back to 130 million years ago." |
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Colour photographs and line drawings. |
Malcolm Storey
Taxonomic Scope
| Arbutus unedo L. (Strawberry-tree) |
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| MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
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| Hymenoscyphus ericae (D.J. Read) Korf & Kernan, 1983 (a discomycete) |
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| Tuber F.H. Wigg., 1780 (a genus of truffles) |
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| Hebeloma (Fr.) P. Kumm., 1871 (poisonpie toadstools) |
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| Cortinarius (Pers.) Gray, 1821 (webcap toadstools) |
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| Laccaria Berk. & Broome, 1883 (deceiver toadstools) |
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| Amanita Pers., 1797 (grisettes and amanitas) |
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| SEBACINACEAE (a family of jelly fungi) |
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| Boletus Fr., 1821 (a genus of boletes) |
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(Xerocomus). |
| Boletus edulis Bull., 1782 (Penny Bun, Cep) |
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| Paxillus Fr., 1836 (a genus of rollrim toadstools) |
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| Pisolithus tinctorius (Pers.) Coker & Couch, 1928 |
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| Suillus Gray, 1821 (a genus of boletes) |
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| Lactarius Pers., 1797 (milkcap toadstools) |
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Hydrophilic mantle. |
| Russula Pers., 1796 (brittlegill toadstools, russulas) |
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Hydrophilic mantle. |
| Endogone Link, 1809 (a genus of pea truffles) |
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| JUNGERMANNIIDAE (leafy and thallose liverworts) |
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| SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) |
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| Carex flacca Schreber (Glaucous Sedge) |
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| Carex pilulifera L. (Pill Sedge) |
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| Kobresia simpliciuscula (Wahlenb.) Mackenzie (False Sedge) |
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| BETULACEAE (birches) |
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| Arctostaphylos alpinus (L.) Sprengel (Mountain Bearberry) |
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| Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Sprengel (Bearberry) |
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| Vaccinium myrtillus L. (Bilberry) |
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| FAGACEAE (forest trees) |
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| Eucalyptus (gums) |
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| Polygonum (a genus of knotgrasses) |
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Herbaceous species. |
| Dryas octopetala L. (Mountain Avens) |
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| SALICACEAE (poplars and willows) |
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| PINACEAE (pines, firs, spruces, cedars, larches) |
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| Pinus sylvestris L. (Scots Pine) |
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