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Approximately 75 percent of all fungi that have been described to date belong to the phylum Ascomycota. They are usually referred to as Ascomycetes and are commonly found and collected by mushroom enthusiasts. Ascomycetes exhibit a remarkable range of biodiversity, are beautiful and visually complex, and some, including morels and truffles, are highly prized for their edibility. Many play significant roles in plant ecology because of the mycorrhizal associations that they form. Thus it is remarkable that no book dedicated to describing and illustrating the North American Ascomycetes has been published in over sixty years.
Filling the gap between technical publications and the limited representation of Ascomycetes in general mushroom field guides, Ascomycete Fungi of North America is a scientifically accurate work dedicated to this significant group of fungi. Because it is impossible to describe and illustrate the tens of thousands of species that occur in North America, the authors focus on species found in the continental United States and Canada that are large enough to be readily noticeable to mycologists, naturalists, photographers, and mushroom hunters. They provide 843 color photographs and more than 600 described species, many of which are illustrated in color for the first time. While emphasizing macroscopic field identification characteristics for a general audience, the authors also include microscopic and other advanced information useful to students and professional mycologists. In addition, a color key to the species described in this book offers a visual guide to assist in the identification process.
- Sales Rank: #1270520 in Books
- Published on: 2014-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.00" h x 1.50" w x 7.00" l, 3.85 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 502 pages
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"�“Michael Beug, professor emeritus at Evergreen State University, has just come out with a�new book on Ascomycetes, which is a diverse fungal phylum that includes morels and�cup fungi.” �" (flora+fauna+fungi 2014-07-18)
"This is a heavy, bigger format that far exceeds the coverage of anything previously published for the ascomycete fungi. Beautiful color images! Easy to read and understand text! Stunning microscopic color habit photographs! Easy to use picture keys to different ascomycete groups! A bargain basement price! A special book that falls in the category of “once in a lifetime”! A much needed book that fills a fungal niche vacant for a long time! " (Staff Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 2014-08-15)
"This is an exciting work and one that is very much needed. There is no [other] contemporary general book on Ascomycetes of North America. And there is no book for North America with good photographs. This book will be welcomed by amateur mycologists worldwide and will be useful for professional mycologists as well. It will definitely increase interest in Ascomycetes because it will now be possible to identify many species." (Rosalind Lowen, Ph.D., author of more than twenty articles on Ascomycetes and discoverer of several new species)
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"This is an exciting work and one that is very much needed. There is no [other] contemporary general book on Ascomycetes of North America. And there is no book for North America with good photographs. This book will be welcomed by amateur mycologists worldwide and will be useful for professional mycologists as well. It will definitely increase interest in Ascomycetes because it will now be possible to identify many species." (Rosalind Lowen, Ph.D., author of more than twenty articles on Ascomycetes and discoverer of several new species)
About the Author
MICHAEL W. BEUG is a mycologist, environmental chemist, and Professor Emeritus at Evergreen State College. He is on the editorial board of Fungi magazine, and his mushroom photographs have appeared in over thirty books and articles. He is coauthor of MatchMaker, a free online mushroom identification program covering over 4,000 taxa of fungi. He lives in Husum, Washington.
ALAN E. BESSETTE is a mycologist and distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology from Utica College of Syracuse University. He has published numerous professional papers in the field of mycology and has authored more than twenty books. He lives in St. Marys, Georgia.
ARLEEN R. BESSETTE is a psychologist, mycologist, and botanical photographer. She has authored or coauthored several scientific papers and fourteen books, has won numerous awards for her photography, and teaches classes on mycology and the culinary aspects of mycophagy. She lives in St. Marys, Georgia.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
FUNGI praise for Beug et al.
By B. Bunyard
Ascomycete Fungi of North America. A Mushroom Reference Guide.
This new book on North American ascomycetes is a welcome surprise. Treating about 600 species of ascomycetes it compares favorably with any of the larger books on North American basidiomycetes. The authors have attempted to bridge the gap between beginners and more advanced enthusiasts by taking a fairly scholarly approach to their subject while at the same time presenting the material in a very user-friendly way. They have arranged the descriptions and illustrations in a format that is taxonomically up-to-date and not necessarily intuitive, but have provided entry to this system through a creative use of picture keys that anyone can easily follow.
The book includes an introduction to ascomycetes accompanied by several photographs of microscopic characteristics, an identification key combining texts and pictures and a main section made up of descriptions and illustrations of individual species. The descriptive pages for each species include a simple description of macro- and microscopic features followed by a paragraph outlining habitat and geographic distribution. A final paragraph, labelled “Comments” contains a discussion of the correct name for the species and also a short overview of similar species not treated by the book in detail. In some species there may also be some comments on edibility. The book ends with a glossary of mycological terms, a list of photo credits, an index for common names and one for scientific names.
The introductory section is brief, declaring a detailed discussion of ascomycete biology to be beyond the scope of the book. The photographs of microscopic features are clear but few in number and not likely to inspire a new generation of amateur microscopists. I suspect most readers will quickly skip over this section and get on with the excellent keys, descriptions and illustrations, which are the real strength of this unabashed field guide.
The keys really are good. The authors undoubtedly gave them a great deal of thought and somehow managed to integrate useful thumbnail photographs with traditional dichotomous keys. Users can take an unknown collection through these keys step by step, or they can just skim over the thumbnails until they come upon the species they have in hand. As an educator, I have long known that some people are verbal in their approach to identification while others are more visual. This book takes both by the hand and walks them through to their goal. Wonderful! The keys do not take the identifier just to a featured species, but may include species not given a major entry but nevertheless included in more detailed comments. By and large, the thumbnails are large enough to be useful but a few may be somewhat unclear to those not already familiar with the species. One unexpected diversion is found among the thumbnails of Gyromitra species, where a rather mutilated fruiting body is labelled Sphaeronaemella helvellae. In turning to the page indicated by the thumbnail, we come to the main page for Gyromitra infula, where under the Comments paragraph there is a detailed description of S. helvellae, a very small ascomycete growing parasitically within the cap of G. infula. There are no photographs of the Sphaeronaemella and it is doubtful the thumbnail in the key would be chosen by a person who actually observed it.
The main descriptive pages are nicely organized. The descriptions of both macro- and microscopic features are detailed enough to be useful to most users. The descriptions of microscopic structures are quite precise and will be useful to professional mycologists. Greater detail will only be found in technical journals. Writers of popular basidiomycete books could learn a lesson or two here. Under the heading “Occurrence” the authors outline what is known about the specific habitat of the species as well as its known geographic distribution. Readers in Newfoundland, as well as the rest of Canada, will find there are some inaccuracies regarding our country. For example, the location “northeastern North America” is often used when the authors really mean “northeastern USA and adjacent parts of Canada.” Mitrula paludosa is said to occur in northeastern Canada, although it really is known mainly from southern Canada. Neocudoniella radicella is quoted as growing in “boreal forests across Canada and probably the northern portions of North America.” I suspect that they really mean “northern portions of the USA.”
The comments on each species are again far from condescending. Some readers will get more than they need here, while professionals and advanced amateurs will find a great deal of useful information. Discussions of nomenclature and taxonomy are carefully documented by current literature citations. Occasionally the descriptive pages have a short paragraph dealing with edibility. This seems a little inconsistent: with morels and similar fungi this makes sense but it can be spotty elsewhere. For example Sarcoscypha austriaca is declared to be “nonpoisonous but not recommended,” but there is no comment on the edibility of S. coccinea on the following page. Some species of Helvella have comments on edibility while others do not.
The treatment of morels is right at the cutting edge of our knowledge and lays out, perhaps for the first time in such a book, the baffling array of known species. These species are hard to tell apart and are still mostly the territory of molecular biologists. However, most readers who have searched for morels will probably find the discussions fascinating. Fortunately, according to these authors, all morels are edible if well cooked, so taxonomy should not interfere with the delight of eating these little morsels.
There are several pages devoted to species of truffles and truffle-like fungi. These may be less useful to Newfoundlanders than to western Americans but are great to see. Most books simply ignore them. One practice here I do not condone is the use of so-called “nomina nuda,” that is, names that have yet to be formally published according to agreed-upon procedures. In this book several unpublished names are introduced in the genus Elaphomyces with the comment “in preparation.” Once these illegitimate names make their way into the wider literature they become confusing. Should someone publish names for these species before the ones used here are published we will have yet another set of useless names to deal with. While nomina nuda can be sorted out by professionals, they can become a nightmare for amateurs and non-specialists.
The final sections of the book are well thought out. The glossary of terms is thorough, as is the bibliography. The authors are to be congratulated on their efforts to be as up-to-date as possible. The indices of common and scientific names are thorough. The scientific index even includes some plant species although not all. I would have preferred to see the scientific index to be alphabetized by species as well as genus, since many of us have yet to adapt to the latest generic names and may have difficulty finding the entry for a species we are familiar with.
In summary, despite a few small quibbles, I like this book very much. It is a landmark publication on North American ascomycetes. The authors understate its importance by citing Seaver’s monumental North American Cup Fungi in its 1978 reprint rather than pointing out that this was originally published in two volumes in 1942 and 1951. We have waited a long time for such a book. It may contain a small percentage of the ascomycetes we are likely to find and is mainly restricted to the larger and more conspicuous species but is nevertheless a wonderful aid to identification. I enthusiastically recommend this book to amateurs and professionals alike, and congratulate its authors on a job very well done.
-D.W. Malloch, PHD
(This review was originally published in FUNGI (2014, vol 7 no.4.)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Macroscopic Ascomycetes
By H. S. Vishniac
Well, the author is forgiven for not including the almost uncountable ascomycetous fungi which are NOT macroscopic. This book is long wanted to aid in identifying those which are visible in situ to the naked eye. The pictures are glorious, the text is good.
as necessary to an amateur as to the professional I used to be.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A quality guide
By Daniel Nicholson
Put together by excellent contemporary mycologists, this is the new best reference to this group of fungi for NA. The pictures and descriptions are near perfect. And there is a nice key at the beginning of the book. I am so happy this exists so we do not have to go to a European guide for some of the descriptions anymore.
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