Wood-rotting non-gilled Agaricomycetes of Himalayas, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015 Fungal Diversity Research Series

The present volume by the author is based on the outcome of extensive explorations in the Himalayas for more than a decade. It incorporates the original research findings along with that based on literature survey. It is intended to provide a comprehensive account of an important group of fungi which has a direct bearing on wood industry and forest ecosystem besides commercial application in bioremediation and pollution control. It is the first step in providing the mycologists with consolidated, systematically up-to-date and illustrative monograph of wood-rotting fungi of Himalayas. Every year the students of the post graduate colleges and universities particularly Indian sub-continent go in for fungal forays to collect fungi which forms part of their course curriculum. This book will serve as a field manual for identification. The book has more than 240 color photographs and 123 plates of camera lucida drawings covering all the fungi which have been reported till-to-date from the study area.

1. Introduction

2. Review of Literature

3. Material and Methods

4. Morphology

5. Forest Types

6. Taxonomy

7. Ecology

8. Index

Illustrated Monograph/Identification guide for non-gilled wood rotting agaricomycetes of the Himalayas

Completely updated nomenclature and text with most recent revisions in the literature and information up to 2012. No reference work with such features is available for the study area

Concise and complete descriptions of all the taxa with camera lucida drawings of all the species for easy identification. The descriptions are also supplemented with colour photographs in more than 70% of the species for easy and accurate identification. A key to the genera and to the species of the individual species has also been provided