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Author:

Woehrel, Mary L., author.

Title:

Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont and southern Appalachians : a reference / by Mary L. Woehrel and William H. Light.

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xiv, 647 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Appalachian Region, Southern.
Georgia.
Identification guides.
Mushrooms--Georgia--Identification.
Mushrooms--Appalachian Region, Southern--Identification.
Mycology--Georgia.
Mycology--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Other Authors:

Light, William J. Haugen, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction -- Domains and six kingdoms : is that all? -- So what are fungi anyway? -- Who's who among the fungi -- Fungi : an overview -- Mating types and sexuality -- Division/phylum Basidiomycota (club fungi and mushrooms) -- Division Ascomycota (yeasts and sac fungi) -- Zygomycetous fungi (pin molds, bread molds, and other zygospore-forming fungi) -- Division Chytridiomycota (chytrids) -- Mycorrhizae -- Division Glomeromycota (Arbuscular mycorrhizae) -- Ectomycorrhizal fungi -- Mycoheterotrophic plants -- Carnivorous fungi -- Endoparasitic fungi -- Fungus-gardening beetles and ants -- Mycetozoa/myxomycota (slime molds) -- Lichens -- Mushroom toxins and mushroom poisoning -- Medicinal properties of some southeastern mushrooms -- Collecting and identifying mushrooms -- What's needed -- Chemical staining -- Microscopy -- Scientific nomenclature -- References cited -- Mushroom morphology : a brief pictorial primer -- Dichotomous and pictorial key to the major mushroom forms -- Species accounts -- Morels, false morels, and elfin saddles -- The carbonaceous fungi (Xylariales) -- Jelly fungi -- Earth tongues, club fungi, and coral fungi -- Parasitic fungi -- Arthropod-parasitizing fungi -- The insect destroyers (order Entomophthorales) -- Mycoparasitic fungi -- Molds, hypomyces -- Cup and disk fungi.
Class Agaricomycetes : an overview -- Puffballs, earthstars, truffles, false truffles, and deer truffles -- Stinkhorns and stinky squids (order Phallales, family Phallaceae) -- The boletes -- Old man of the woods -- Other boletes -- Inky caps (Coprinoid mushrooms) -- The amanitas (order Agaricales, family Amanitaceae R. Heim Ex Pouzar, type -- Genus Amanita Persoon) -- The lepiotas (order Agariales, family Agaricaceae Chevallier) -- Stropharia-like mushrooms (order Agaricales, family Strophariaceae Singer & A.H. Smith) -- The corts (webcaps) (order Agaricales, family Cortinariaceae R. Heim Ex Pouzar -- Genus Cortinarius Gray) -- Rooted collybia, rooted agaric (Hymenopellis spp. complex) -- Oyster-like (Pleurotoid) mushrooms -- Miscellaneous euagarics -- The magic mushrooms (Psilocybe and Panaeolus) -- Brown look-alikes -- some edible, some deadly poisonous -- The russulas and milkcaps -- Russulas -- Milkcaps -- Chanterelles -- Corticioid fungi (crusts, spreads, and parchment fungi) -- Polypores (shelf and bracket fungi) -- Hydnoid (toothed) fungi -- Genus hericium (lion's mane, bear's tooth, and coral tooth fungi) -- Bird's nest fungi and artillery fungi -- Slime molds (Mycetozoa/myxomycota) -- Glossary of some mycological terms.

Series:

A Wormsloe Foundation nature book

ISBN:

0820350036
9780820350035

OCLC:

(OCoLC)962068634

LCCN:

2016049003

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)