Mushrooms and Toadstools of Australia

Fungi form a vast group and are extraordinarily diverse in form, but it is the mushrooms and toadstools with which we are most familiar. This beautifully illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to all the major genera and species occurring in Australia. It is equally valuable to the specialist and the amateur.

Mushrooms and Toadstools of Australia is divided into two main sections: the first comprises six introductory chapters discussing general matters relating to the higher fungi; and the second sectior provides keys to the larger groups and the genera contained in them, together with detailed descriptions and photographs of selected species, glossary and a bibliography.

Each genus and many individual species are illustrated with high quality colour or black and white photographs. Line drawings in the introductory chapters show the details of characteristics mentioned in the descriptions. Sp descriptions give information on the cap, sten spores, taste and smell, distribution, edibility known), and related species.