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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970575403321

Autore

Laursen Gary A

Titolo

Common Interior Alaska cryptogams : fungi, lichenicolous fungi, lichenized fungi, slime molds, mosses and liverworts / / Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, AK, : University of Alaska Press, 2009

ISBN

9781602231092

1602231095

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SeppeltR. D

Disciplina

586.09798

Soggetti

Cryptogams - Alaska - Interior Alaska

Botany - Alaska

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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 fungi, slime molds, mosses, and liverworts. This field guide to commonly seen cryptogams will provide a basis for understanding their vast diversity of taxa, speciation, edibility, relative abundance, and utility, as well as the ecological roles played by these organisms.