| Author | Ellis, M.B. & J.P. | |||||||||
| Year | 1998 | |||||||||
| Title | Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook | |||||||||
| ISBN | 0 85546 248 5 | |||||||||
| Type | Book/Report | |||||||||
| How Complete | Covers about 730 species, comprising the majority of fungi growing on the relevant substrates that can be found, with hand lens or dissecting microscope, in Britain. | |||||||||
| Source | 2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 246pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd | |||||||||
| Illustrations | 56 pages containing over 500 original line drawings at the back. | |||||||||
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | An encyclopaedic and fairly comprehensive account of the microfungi that grow on various non-plant substrates in Britain. These comprise discomycetes, other ascomycetes, hyphomycetes, coelomycetes and phycomycetes, plus a handful of basidiomycetes on other fungi and on bryophytes. The handbook is arranged in the following chapters:
The final species accounts are quite short, but two thirds of them are illustrated with line drawings, principally of the microscopy. Fungi parasitic on Rusts and Powdery Mildews are dealt with in "Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook", by the same authors. Excludes fungi on Insects (eg Hypocreales, Entomophthorales and Laboulbeniomycetes) | |||||||||
| Examine |  Compound Microscope ( Stereo Microscope is also useful) | |||||||||
| Specimen Preparation | Microscopy of spores and related structures |
