AuthorMoser, M.
Year1983
TitleKeys to Agarics & Boleti
ISBN0 9508486 0 3
SeriesPhillips translation
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteA huge number of taxa from north-west Europe.
SourcePhillips translation, 535pp, Roger Phillips
Illustrations429 line drawings of fruitbodies, spores, cystidia etc, at the back
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

A translation of Die Röhrlinge und Blätterpilze Band II, 4th edition, 1978 (part of Gams’s Kleine Kryptogamenflora)

Keys to agarics (mushrooms and toadstools) and covering a huge number of taxa. It is very terse by today’s standards.

If anything, its fault was that it was a key to published names rather than to real-world fungi - you could waste a lot of time trying to decide which of two synonyms better fitted your find. Furthermore, the alternatives you had to choose between were often either unrelated (eg with a ring versus on wood) or overlapping (eg brown versus dark brown). Nevertheless it was extremely useful in its day.

Examine Compound Microscope

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationSupersededBASIDIOMYCETESspore droppersFungi
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