| Author | Antonín, V. & Noordeloos, M.E. |
| Year | 1997 |
| Title | A Monograph of Marasmius, Collybia and related genera in Europe. Part II. Collybia, Gymnopus, Rhodocollyiba, Crinipellis, Chaetocalathus and additions to Marasmiellus |
| Series | Libri Botanici |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All the European species then known |
| Source | Libri Botanici, Vol 17, 256pp, IHW-Verlag |
| Illustrations | Line drawings of microscopy and excellent colour photographs accompany the text |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | This is the second part of these authors’ monograph of European Marasmius and Collybia, covering the "Collybioid" species. The introduction is followed by a key to the genera of Collybioid and Marasmoid fungi in Europe.
Marasmoid species were covered in the previous volume, and the Collyboid taxa are now handled in the same way. Each genus is surveyed, with a key to species followed by very full species accounts with synonymy and an (often long) list of collections examined. Each species has line drawings of microscopy (eg spores, basidia, cheilocystidia, and pileipellis elements) and a good colour photograph. Following the treatment of Collyboid taxa, Marasmiellus is revisited (20 pages) to incorporate two spp from Micromphale and several recently described taxa. A revised key is presented followed by species accounts for the additions. Finally there are 41 pages of insufficiently known and excluded taxa with descriptions and reasons for rejecting them. |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | According to the erratum slip, the following plates are incorrectly labelled: pl 35 is *Rhodocollybia butyracea forma asema* pl 36 is *Rhodocollybia butyracea forma butyracea* pl 43 is *Marasmiellus perforans* pl 44 is *Marasmiellus omphaliformis* |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope |
| Specimen Preparation | Slide preps of spores, cystidia etc |
| Identification difficulty | Comparatively straightforward |
