| Author | Spooner, B. & Roberts, P. |
| Year | 2005 |
| Title | Fungi |
| ISBN | 0-00-220153-4 |
| Series | New Naturalist |
| Type | Book/Report |
| Source | New Naturalist, 96, 594pp, HarperCollins |
| Illustrations | Colour photographs |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | An excellent, readable, modern account of all things fungal by the two senior mycologists at Kew. |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | P. 96: States that different-looking lichens formed from the same fungus and different algae were "mistakenly" described as separate lichen genera. However, under the nomenclatorial rules of the time, lichen names applied to the lichen association not to the fungal component, so this was quite correct. There were even cases where different parts of the same lichen, eg species with special growths utilising a cyanobacterium, had two names. |
| Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | OOMYCOTA | a group of mainly plant-parasitic fungi | Chromista | |
| Current | FUNGI | true fungi | ||
| Current | MYXOGASTREA | slime moulds, myxomycetes | Protozoa | |
| Current | [Fungi s.l.] | fungi (in the broad sense) |
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