Common Interior Alaska cryptogams : fungi, lichenicolous fungi, lichenized fungi, slime molds, mosses, and liverworts

Common Interior Alaska cryptogams : fungi, lichenicolous fungi, lichenized fungi, slime molds, mosses, and liverworts / Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt ; contributing authors, Mikhail P. Zhurbenko [and others].

With Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams, Gary A. Laursen and Rodney Seppelt offer the first field guide to cryptogams of the Denali National Park and Preserve. Useful to both lay and professional investigators, this fully illustrated compendium covers mushroom fungi, lichenized fungi, lichenicolous f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laursen, Gary A.
Other Authors: Seppelt, R. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Cryptogams > Alaska > Interior Alaska.
NATURE > Plants > General.
Cryptogams
Alaska > Interior Alaska
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Interior landscapes
  • The setting
  • Climate
  • Physiography
  • Fungi: mushrooms and other cryptogams
  • Fungal ecology
  • Mushroom architecture
  • Mushroom edibility and poisoning
  • Where to look for fungi
  • Fungal grouping (taxonomy)
  • Tools of the trade
  • Fungal groups: the hymenomycetes (having an organized hymenium)
  • Agaricoid (gilled) fungi
  • Boletinoid (soft, fleshy poroid) fungi
  • Polyporoid (bracket- and wood-inhabiting) fungi
  • Toothed (spiny or hedgehog) fungi
  • Coraloid (club) fungi
  • Chanterelloid fungi
  • Thelephoroid (vase) fungi
  • Fungal groups: the gasteromycetes (having no organized hymenium)
  • Gasteroid (stomach) fungi: puffballs
  • Gasteroid (stomach) fungi: bird's nest
  • Gasteroid (stomach) fungi: earthstars
  • Fungal groups: conifer rust, jelly, cup, and earth tongue fungi
  • Conifer rust fungi
  • Jelly fungi
  • Cup fungi
  • Earth tongue fungi
  • Lichenicolous fungi: parasitic and saprophytic fungi on lichens
  • Lichenized fungi: the lichens
  • Ascolichens: crustose
  • Ascolichens: foliose
  • Ascolichens: fruticose
  • Basidiolichens: coral
  • Basidiolichens: agaric
  • Plasmodial slime molds (mycetozoans)
  • Bryophytes: the mosses and liverworts
  • Introduction
  • Bryophyte flora of North America
  • Descriptions of common moss species
  • Descriptions of common liverwort species.

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