Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont and southern Appalachians : a reference / by Mary L. Woehrel and William H. Light.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Wormsloe Foundation nature book.
Main Authors: Woehrel, Mary L. (Author)
Light, William J. Haugen (Author)
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Series:Wormsloe Foundation nature book.
Subjects:
Mushrooms > Georgia > Identification.
Mushrooms > Appalachian Region, Southern > Identification.
Mycology > Georgia.
Mycology > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Mushrooms.
Mycology.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Georgia.
Field guides.
Genre:
Identification.
Field guides.
Physical Description:xiv, 647 pages ; 29 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Domains and six kingdoms : is that all?
  • So what are fungi anyway?
  • Who's who among the fungi
  • Fungi : an overview
  • Mating types and sexuality
  • Division/phylum Basidiomycota (club fungi and mushrooms)
  • Division Ascomycota (yeasts and sac fungi)
  • Zygomycetous fungi (pin molds, bread molds, and other zygospore-forming fungi)
  • Division Chytridiomycota (chytrids)
  • Mycorrhizae
  • Division Glomeromycota (Arbuscular mycorrhizae)
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi
  • Mycoheterotrophic plants
  • Carnivorous fungi
  • Endoparasitic fungi
  • Fungus-gardening beetles and ants
  • Mycetozoa/myxomycota (slime molds)
  • Lichens
  • Mushroom toxins and mushroom poisoning
  • Medicinal properties of some southeastern mushrooms
  • Collecting and identifying mushrooms
  • What's needed
  • Chemical staining
  • Microscopy
  • Scientific nomenclature
  • References cited
  • Mushroom morphology : a brief pictorial primer
  • Dichotomous and pictorial key to the major mushroom forms
  • Species accounts
  • Morels, false morels, and elfin saddles
  • The carbonaceous fungi (Xylariales)
  • Jelly fungi
  • Earth tongues, club fungi, and coral fungi
  • Parasitic fungi
  • Arthropod-parasitizing fungi
  • The insect destroyers (order Entomophthorales)
  • Mycoparasitic fungi
  • Molds, hypomyces
  • Cup and disk fungi.
  • Class Agaricomycetes : an overview
  • Puffballs, earthstars, truffles, false truffles, and deer truffles
  • Stinkhorns and stinky squids (order Phallales, family Phallaceae)
  • The boletes
  • Old man of the woods
  • Other boletes
  • Inky caps (Coprinoid mushrooms)
  • The amanitas (order Agaricales, family Amanitaceae R. Heim Ex Pouzar, type
  • Genus Amanita Persoon)
  • The lepiotas (order Agariales, family Agaricaceae Chevallier)
  • Stropharia-like mushrooms (order Agaricales, family Strophariaceae Singer & A.H. Smith)
  • The corts (webcaps) (order Agaricales, family Cortinariaceae R. Heim Ex Pouzar
  • Genus Cortinarius Gray)
  • Rooted collybia, rooted agaric (Hymenopellis spp. complex)
  • Oyster-like (Pleurotoid) mushrooms
  • Miscellaneous euagarics
  • The magic mushrooms (Psilocybe and Panaeolus)
  • Brown look-alikes
  • some edible, some deadly poisonous
  • The russulas and milkcaps
  • Russulas
  • Milkcaps
  • Chanterelles
  • Corticioid fungi (crusts, spreads, and parchment fungi)
  • Polypores (shelf and bracket fungi)
  • Hydnoid (toothed) fungi
  • Genus hericium (lion's mane, bear's tooth, and coral tooth fungi)
  • Bird's nest fungi and artillery fungi
  • Slime molds (Mycetozoa/myxomycota)
  • Glossary of some mycological terms.