Author | Pegler, D.N. & Young, T.W.K. |
Year | 1973 |
Title | Basidiospore form in the British species of Ganoderma Karts |
Type | Paper |
How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
Source | Kew Bulletin Vol 28 (3): 351-363+6 plates. |
Illustrations | Numerous SEM photographs, spore drawings and diagrams of spore and wall sections |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Pegler and Young give Ganoderma their treatment. As usual, the work includes a key to British species and electron photo-micrographs of spores. |
Examine | with a Microscope using 100x oil-immersion |
Specimen Preparation | Spore prints or spores scraped off top of bracket, substrate, surrounding vegetation etc. Context and/or pileal crust may also need to be examined. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | Ganoderma | a genus of bracket fungi | Fungi: Polyporales: Ganodermataceae |
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