This is an essential reference for taxonomists working on Australian fungi, and anyone who wishes to use up-to-date names of Australian fungi. Together with its companion volume, Fungi of Australia Volume 2A, it lists all the names applied to Australian macrofungi and provides the up-to-date accepted name for each species, along with a comprehensive listing of relevant literature.
Volume 2B covers larger fungi in the Basidiomycota, along with the larger Myxomycota. Groups dealt with in this volume include bracket fungi, slime moulds, puffballs, earthballs, earthstars, stinkhorns, birds nest fungi, coral fungi, jelly fungi, polypores, and stereoid, corticioid and thelephoroid fungi.
This important work includes entries for more than 1,700 accepted names. For each name the catalogue lists place and date of publication, taxonomic synonyms, cross references to misidentifications and a comprehensive list of all works in which the name has been used in an Australian context. The extensive bibliography contains over 1,800 entries and includes not only taxonomic publications relevant to species described from Australia, but also publications on fungi in relation to forestry, agriculture, ecology, medicine, chemistry and general biology.
The Series
Fungi are a fundamentally important group of organisms, essential to nutrient cycling and recycling, and to the health of most plants and animals. Of the estimated 250 000 species of fungi in Australia only about five per cent have been described. This series will provide a major impetus for research on the balance.
The Fungi of Australia series documents indigenous and naturalised fungi found in Australia and its territories, providing the basic systematic data necessary for issues relating to conservation, biological diversity and biotechnology. Individual titles will provide keys for identification, as well as descriptions, illustrations, notes on ecology, distribution maps and bibliographic information for each species. The series will become an important baseline reference for those interested in Australian mycology. This series is co-published by CSIRO PUBLISHING and the Australian Biological Resources Study.
Other Fungi of Australia Series titles currently available
Fungi of Australia Volume 1A: Introduction-Classification
Fungi of Australia Volume 1B: Introduction - Fungi in the Environment
Fungi of Australia Volume 2A: Catalogue and Bibliography of Australian Macrofungi 1. Basidiomycota p.p.
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