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  • June 9, 2015 at 9:39 am #29454
    adampembs
    Keymaster

      I find Summerfield Books a good place to get fungi books. Prices are competitive and it goes to a UK business not the richest guy in the world.

      Field guides – they all claim to be complete or comprehensive and none of them are as they only contain a tiny fraction of fungi species

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    • [*]Collins Complete Guide to British Mushrooms and Toadstools – not at all complete, but compact and good for its size

    • [*]Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe – Michael Jordan – a bit big for the field, but has some useful features such as a key to species, a colour chart, some fungal anatomy as well as more species than the Collins “complete” guide

    • [*]“Mushrooms: A Comprehensive Guide” (Roger Phillips)

    • [*]Collins Fungi Guide – this is the most comprehensive of the field guides, covering 2,400 species. It has colour illustrations, rather than photos.

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      Technical literature [list]

    • There are too many more to be listed here, but here are some of the best known ones. Most available from Summerfield Books or the NHBS.

    • [*]Funga Nordica – out of print. This is “the bible” of identification for cap and stem fungi (Basidiomycetes only) – it has no photos, only drawings of microscopic details, but it has excellent keys to 3,500 species. http://nordsvamp.org/[/url] )[/color]

    • [*]Fungi of Switzerland – a beautiful set of (very expensive) books, and the most comprehensive illustrated set of books on fungi

    • [*]Kibby guides – a useful set of small books on particular genera. Currently guides on these genera: Russula, Amanita, Agaricus, Tricholoma, “Boletes” and “British Milkcaps.”

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      Online resources [list]

    • [*]Mycokey – a free online key to help get to genus

    • [*]BMS keys to macro fungi

    • [*]Mushroomexpert.com

    • [*]First-Nature.com

    • [*]Outer Hebrides Fungi

    • [*]The fungi of southern England – Leif Goodwin

    • [*]Fungi of the New Forest

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      Sites devoted to particular groups of fungi [list]

    • [*]Pyrenomycetes of southwest France

    • [*]Boletes –The Boletales

    • [*]Inocybe – http://www.inocybe.org/” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.inocybe.org/

    • [*]Leccinum – http://www.entoloma.nl/html/leccinum_eng.html” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.entoloma.nl/html/leccinum_eng.html

    • [*]Psathyrella – http://www.vielepilze.de/” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.vielepilze.de/

    • [*]Coprinus s.l. – http://www.grzyby.pl/coprinus-site-Kees-Uljee/species/Coprinus.htm” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.grzyby.pl/coprinus-site-Kees-Uljee/species/Coprinus.htm

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      EDIT : added some suggestions for sites on fungal groups

    June 13, 2015 at 9:07 am #34907
    roy betts

      Here are some more online resources for specific Genera. All with images and keys, they often cover European as well as UK species:

      Inocybe – http://www.inocybe.org/

      Leccinum – http://www.entoloma.nl/html/leccinum_eng.html

      Mycena – http://home.online.no/~araronse/Mycenakey/index.htm

      Psathyrella – http://www.vielepilze.de/

      Coprinus s.l. – http://www.grzyby.pl/coprinus-site-Kees-Uljee/species/Coprinus.htm

      June 25, 2015 at 11:58 am #34908
      Lancashire Lad
      Moderator

        Hi all,

        I stumbled upon this webpage earlier today, and suspect it might prove to be very useful, as many of the included species are also found in Britain: –

        It links to every issue of Czech Mycology journal from Volume 1 (1947), to Volume 67 (Present day), in downloadable PDF format.

        NB: Volumes 1-47 were in Czech language, but all volumes since are in English.

        http://www.czechmycology.org/czech-mycology-content.php#v02” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.czechmycology.org/czech-mycology-content.php#v02

        A comprehensive “cumulative” index, (consisting of some 282 pages!), to all fungal genera and species included in Volumes 1–64, can be found near the top of the page, but I’ve linked to it below.

        http://www.czechmycology.org/_cm/CM62201.pdf” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.czechmycology.org/_cm/CM62201.pdf

        Happy reading folks. :D

        Regards,

        Mike.

        October 8, 2015 at 11:33 am #34909
        Waxcap

          This is a great site with lots of info on morphology and taxonomy. It’s part of the book “The Fifth Kingdom” which I would recommend to anyone wanting to explore things in a little more depth.

          http://www.mycolog.com/index.html” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.mycolog.com/index.html

          Dave

          October 8, 2015 at 8:02 pm #34910
          marksteer

            WAXCAPS

            Some help with the new names for Waxcaps: http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2014/nrs_2014_lodge_001.pdf

            November 28, 2015 at 2:59 pm #34911
            Chris Yeates

              These are extremely valuable links, with an understandable North American slant, but very useful nonetheless:

              http://www.mykoweb.com/systematics/literature.html#apm1_1” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.mykoweb.com/systematics/literature.html#apm1_1

              especially the Other Authors and Corticiaceae of Northern Europe links

              also:

              http://www.mykoweb.com/systematics/journals/” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.mykoweb.com/systematics/journals/

              much easier to deal with than the page-by-page Cyberliber version (though respect to Dave Minter for that brilliant site, which of course contains many other journals).

              Chris

              January 24, 2016 at 9:17 am #34912
              Chris Johnson

                Hi All

                Does anyone have a PDF of the BMS,s Keys to British Typhula and other species by J V R Marriott?

                Thanks, Chris

                January 24, 2016 at 1:22 pm #34913
                Lancashire Lad
                Moderator

                  Chris Johnson wrote:

                  Hi All

                  Does anyone have a PDF of the BMS,s Keys to British Typhula and other species by J V R Marriott?

                  Thanks, Chris


                  Hi Chris – It can be found, (amongst others), and downloaded as PDF from this BMS website page: –

                  http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/library/keys/index-phpcid951/

                  The Typhula key is found within BMS KEYS PART 6.

                  Regards,

                  Mike.

                  January 24, 2016 at 2:06 pm #34914
                  Chris Johnson

                    Many thanks, Mike.

                    I was looking in the wrong part of the website. :(

                    Regards, Chris

                    January 28, 2016 at 4:32 pm #34915
                    diggleken

                      This Serbian site by Dragiša Savić – a national park biologist it seems – has a some fantastic images of all sorts, besides many fungi, and looks to be pretty accurate.

                      http://www.naturefg.com/pages/fu-basidiomycota1.htm

                      Cheers

                      Ken

                      September 13, 2016 at 1:41 pm #34916
                      Chris Yeates

                        An excellent chance to see species distributions in nearby Europe. Excellent Dutch website – here starting with their first in alphabetical order (and a fungus familiar to most of us . . . ): https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/0330010” class=”bbcode_url”>https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/0330010

                        Chris

                        June 16, 2017 at 4:46 pm #34917
                        Chris Yeates

                          I have just received an email from Hermann Voglmayr in Vienna letting me know that the paper on Helminthosporium and allied fungi which he has been working on is now freely available, as a downloadable PDF file, on-line: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166061617300210” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166061617300210

                          Helminthosporium velutinum will probably be known to anyone who has looked at the micro-fungal communities of dead stems and twigs – Steve I suspect will find this very useful. I was pleased to be able to provide him with material of Helminthosporium (Corynespora) caespitosum as part of this study.

                          Chris

                          July 25, 2017 at 5:51 pm #34918
                          adampembs
                          Keymaster

                            Sad news

                            http://nordsvamp.org/

                            “Plans for a third edition of Funga Nordica are suspended and the future of the project is uncertain.”

                            November 5, 2017 at 2:37 pm #34919
                            adampembs
                            Keymaster

                              A few new books are out this year

                              Grassland Fungi: A Field Guide – Wood, E., Dunkelman, J. (Monmouthshire Meadows Group)

                              Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe Volume 1. 2nd Edition – Geoffrey Kibby – looks to be the defining new field guide, but haven’t seen it yet. Volume 1 features the non-agarics. It quickly sold out and a second printing is underway.

                              Mention also should be made of the British Fungus Flora range with a reprint of vol 5 / Strophariaceae & Coprinaceae p.p. Hypholoma, Melanotus, Psilocybe, Stropharia, Lacrymaria & Panaeolus which, at £7.95 for 121 pages is very good for a specialist work.

                              Poroid Fungi of Europe 2nd Edition – Synopsis Fungorum volume 31: – published and soon in shops

                              Fungi: Mushrooms & Toadstools of parks, gardens, heaths and woodlands – Andy Overall (due end of November)

                              Book reviews welcome!

                              November 29, 2017 at 10:22 pm #34920
                              adampembs
                              Keymaster

                                I see the “The Genus tricholoma in Britain” by Geoffrey Kibby has been re-listed as a 2nd edition (2017) with the original being published in 2012.

                                Does anyone know how different the two editions are?

                                “The Genus tricholoma” in the Fungi of Northern Europe (FNE) series is a tempting offering, it was published in 2013 and in based on species found in Northern Europe (from North France up.) As I live in Pembrokeshire, and regularly get battered by south westerly gales, I wonder if we get Portuguese or Galician species. This could include species not appearing in the FNE book. This brings me to the Fungi Europeia books, which are quite dated (1980s and supplement 2003) but include species from Southern Europe. Does the Kibby book include possible Iberian species?

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