Author: Sarah LloydPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646827957
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Languages : en
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Book Description
Myxomycetes at Black Sugarloaf contains information about field collections of myxomycetes (acellular slime moulds) found in a tall wet Eucalypt forest at Black Sugarloaf, Northern Tasmania between 2010 and 2020. It includes habitat descriptions, keys to the Orders, Families and Genera of Myxomycetes as well as an introductory visual key. One page is devoted to each of the 135 species collected and includes a description of the substrate, size and colour of the fruiting bodies (sporangia, aethalia, pseudoaethalia or plasmodiocarps), and descriptions of the microscopic characters. Every species has at least one colour photograph of the fruiting bodies, microscopic images of spores, capillitium and peridium (if relevant) and plasmodium if observed. Notes cover such things as relative abundance, seasonality, texts used for identification and reasons for determination.Appendices include illustrations of the parts of the fruiting bodies of Myxomycetes; a glossary; details of the dominant plant species at the four main search areas; the species associated with Clematis aristata, a vigorous native vine; the 2019 'hotspot'; and references and websites.
