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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.
Gary A. Laursen is a senior research professor with the Institute of Arctic Biology and adjunct associate professor of mycology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Rodney D. Seppelt is principal research scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and curator of the AAD Herbarium.
List of Figures
Introduction
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 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
Cantharelloid 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 or 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
Glossary
Acknowledgements
English Equivalents
Mushroom Field and Reference Guides
References
Appendix: Mycological Reagents: Makeup and Use
Index
About the Authors