| Author | Dennis, R.W.G. |
| Year | 1956 |
| Title | A Revision of the British Helotiaceae in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with notes on related European species |
| Series | Mycological Papers |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
| Source | Mycological Papers, No. 62, 216pp, Commonwealth Mycological Institute |
| Illustrations | A black and white photographic frontispiece, plus copious line drawings of habitus and microscopic structures accompany the text |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A very detailed exposition of these small to minute cup fungi with non-hairy apothecia. A list of diagnostic features of subfamilies is followed by detailed treatment of each with indented keys to genera and to species. The species accounts at half a page or so include drawings of habitus, LS, and microscopy. List of substrates at the back. Still useful, alongside Ellis & Ellis (Land Plants) etc A companion to the Revision of the British Hyaloscyphaceae, by the same author. |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope |
| Specimen Preparation | Microscope slide preps, often stained with Melzer’s Iodine. |
| Identification difficulty | The microscopic structure of the excipulum is of primary importance at subfamily level, although you can usually manage without it. Some groups quite challenging. |
