More than 21,000 entries, and provides the most complete listing available of generic names of fungi, their families and orders, their attributes and descriptive terms. For each genus, the authority, the date of publication, status, systematic position, number of accepted species, distribution, and key references are given.

Comprehensive, up-to-date collection of more than5,000 mycological terms with their origins and definitions and includes 2,708 color illustrations

Introductory text to the study of mycology