Bruce Ing, The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland: An Identification Handbook

A classic work and the first to comprehensively study this interesting life form, which has an important role in decomposing plant material. Myxomycetes (slime moulds) were once considered a special group of fungi. However they are now grouped within Amoebozoa as unicellular protists that adopt a multicellular aggregate form in certain conditions.

Introductory chapters cover life-history, structure, ecology, distribution, how to find and collect material, bark culture techniques, microscopic examination, and herbarium storage of ‘slime-moulds’. The detailed accounts cover identification, keys, descriptions and illustrations. They also include notes on differences from other similar species.

This is a reprint of the enlarged 2020 edition with a 20-page supplement including new species, together with 54 colour photos. It is a guide to the British and Irish species, including keys, descriptions, and illustrations showing the diagnostic features along with introductory chapters on life history, structure, ecology and distribution, collecting, techniques, and preservation.

The author taught at Chester College, now the University of Chester, from 1971 to 2013 and is Visiting Professor of Environmental Biology and Emeritus Professor of Applied Science. He has studied fungi for more than sixty years and has published more than 200 papers on mycological subjects. He lived in North Wales for nearly forty years but is now retired to the north-west Highlands of Scotland where he continues to research the local fungi.

Ordering information
Bruce Ing, The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland: An Identification Handbook, 2024, ISBN 978-1-910481-29-5 (paperback reprint of 2020 edition), £27.99 (including postage and packing in the UK, payable on overseas orders).

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This publication will be available in June 2024 and any pre-orders will be despatched then.

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