Originally published in 1993, A Guide to Kansas Mushrooms went out of print in 2017. Original author Richard Kay suggested his wife, Sherry Kay, could assume the undertaking of revising the book, collaborating with him working as a consultant. After Richard’s death in 2018, Sherry later added two coauthors, Benjamin Sikes and Caleb Morse, to complete the task. Kay, Sikes, and Morse have revised this new edition to account for the variety of ways mycology has changed in the last twenty-five years, while holding to its original purpose as a guide for active mushroomers. Primarily, A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms highlights the upheaval in taxonomy caused by advances in molecular genetics: an estimated 25 percent of fungal names included in the original guide have changed since 1993. Second, the list of mushrooms found in Kansas has expanded and the new edition adds 50 species to the 150 described in the original guide. All anthology entries have been updated to reflect these changes in the field, and the essays have also been edited, reduced, or expanded to include updated information as well as brand-new material. The outdated genus-level classification of fungi has been replaced by two cladograms—diagrams that illustrate how organisms branch off from their last common ancestors. This revised edition provides a wealth of new material on Kansas mushrooms that will aid and fascinate both newbies and seasoned mycophiles and includes information on online resources and notes on how to grow mushrooms in Kansas. While the book fully treats 200 species, readers will be able to identify 320 different macrofungi using the keys and discussions. Additionally, this book introduces readers to fascinating, common slime molds (myxomycetes). A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms incorporates new understanding of fungal taxonomy that has been alrgely unearthed by genetic tools over the past three decades, highlights key taxa, and includes a life list of the more than 1,200 species now cataloged from Kansas—nearly twice the number known at the time of the first edition.

This book is a guide to the fungi of Kansas. It will familiarize you with some of the most common and some of the most beautiful of the state's fungal flora. But it is designed to do much more. It will introduce you to a variety of ways to enjoy mushrooms. For most people they are things of beauty and wonder, to be discovered unexpectedly on a walk in the woods; some try to preserve and communicate their sense of awe on film; others only want to find delectable morsels for the table; a few strive to find rarities or to identify mysterious strangers. This book will help you take the first steps in all these approaches to the world of mushrooming.

A preliminary mycota of Indonesia is presented that is based largely upon collections made in the equatorial rain forest of north Sulawesi during the expedition known as Project Wallace. Approximately 150 species are included in this work.

This collection of papers is from a symposium held in conjunction with the XIVth International Congres in Berlin in 1987. It includes contributions on evolution in primitive angiosperms, sexual dimorphisms, & family & generic treatments.

This volume comprises papers presented at the CYCAD 87 Symposium. The symposium's emphasis was on current research trends on the Cycadales. Included in this collection are sections on morphology, reproductive biology & vegetative propagation, cytology, physiology, ecology, & ethnobotany, & systematics & floristics.

Dorr provides an extensive treatment of the North American genus Callirhoe, recognizing nine species & two varieties. Included are ecology, ethnobotany, & inter- & infra- generic relationships.

This monograph includes descriptions of one new genus, Rupertia, two new subgenera, Pediomelum subgenus Disarticulatum & subgenus Leucocraspeden, & one new species, Otholobium diffidens.