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An essential reference for taxonomists working on Australian fungi. Volume 2B covers the larger fungi in the Basidiomycota, along with the larger Myxomycota. Groups dealt with in this volume include bracket fungi, slime moulds, puffballs, earthballs, earthstars, stinkhorns, birds nest fungi, coral fungi, jelly fungi, polypores, and steroid, corticoid and thelephoroid fungi.

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Without doubt this book is a must for everybody interested in the region. -- PERSOONIA, Vol. 18, Part 3, 2004 These catalogues will be an essential tool for Australian fungal taxonomists. . . -- M J Richardson (Mycologists v.18, Part 1 Feb 2004) The book is a welcome and essential reference for all taxonomists working on Australian fungi and for those wanting to use up-to-date names for Australian fungi. -- Pam Catcheside, State Herbarium of South Australia (Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter Dec 2003) Any mycologist working in the rich tropical Southern Hemisphere regions wishing to make comparisons between the mycobiotas of different countries or regions will find this book extremely useful and a must for reference. This book will be useful to both amateurs and professionals who are interested in knowing more about the diverse fungi of this region -- Teresa Iturriaga, Universtdad Dimon Balivar, Venezuela (Mycotaxon v.90 no.2 2004)

-Without doubt this book is a must for everybody interested in the region.- -- PERSOONIA, Vol. 18, Part 3, 2004 -These catalogues will be an essential tool for Australian fungal taxonomists. . .- -- M J Richardson (Mycologists v.18, Part 1 Feb 2004) -The book is a welcome and essential reference for all taxonomists working on Australian fungi and for those wanting to use up-to-date names for Australian fungi.- -- Pam Catcheside, State Herbarium of South Australia (Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter Dec 2003) -Any mycologist working in the rich tropical Southern Hemisphere regions wishing to make comparisons between the mycobiotas of different countries or regions will find this book extremely useful and a 'must' for reference. ... This book will be useful to both amateurs and professionals who are interested in knowing more about the diverse fungi of this region...- -- Teresa Iturriaga, Universtdad Dimon Balivar, Venezuela (Mycotaxon v.90 no.2 2004)

Without doubt this book is a must for everybody interested in the region. -- PERSOONIA, Vol. 18, Part 3, 2004 These catalogues will be an essential tool for Australian fungal taxonomists. . . -- M J Richardson (Mycologists v.18, Part 1 Feb 2004) The book is a welcome and essential reference for all taxonomists working on Australian fungi and for those wanting to use up-to-date names for Australian fungi. -- Pam Catcheside, State Herbarium of South Australia (Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter Dec 2003) Any mycologist working in the rich tropical Southern Hemisphere regions wishing to make comparisons between the mycobiotas of different countries or regions will find this book extremely useful and a must for reference. This book will be useful to both amateurs and professionals who are interested in knowing more about the diverse fungi of this region -- Teresa Iturriaga, Universtdad Dimon Balivar, Venezuela (Mycotaxon v.90 no.2 2004)

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Tom W. May is Senior Mycologist at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, where he carries out research into the taxonomy, ecology and conservation of Australian larger fungi. Tom is the Convenor of the Fungimap scheme, and was on the founding executive of the Australasian Mycological Society. Tom is author (with Dr Alec Wood) of the first volume of the Catalogue & Bibliography of Australian Fungi, published as Fungi of Australia Volume 2A. Josephine Milne has published on the reproductive biology and ecology of mosses. She has worked at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on the Catalogue & Bibliography project since 1997. Susan Shingles was a Herbarium Officer at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne from 1988 to 1994, and worked on the Catalogue & Bibliography project from 1994 to 1995. Rodney Jones worked on the Catalogue & Bibliography project at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne in 1998. Rodney is currently completing a PhD on the systematics of Australian Dermocybe, in the School of Botany, The University of Melbourne.

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