Book review

Besl H., Bresinsky A. 2009. Checkliste der Basidiomycota 
von Bayern (Agaricomycotina, Urediniomycotina, 
Ustilaginomycotina). Regensburger Mykologische 
Schriften, Band 16, Regensburg, 868 pp. ISSN 0944-2820.

The checklist is published as a part of the series re-
nowned for presenting of the biodiversity of plants 
and fungi in Germany. The current volume offers 
an extended overview of the history of former stud-
ies as well as the current state of knowledge of ba-
sidiomycetous fungi in Bavaria. 

Material is grouped in three main units, with 
the genera and species arranged alphabetically 
within each unit. First part of the checklist consists 
of phytopathogenic microfungi classified in Ure-
diniomycotina and Ustilagomycotina. These taxa 

are merged together into one list as they share basic ecological properties whereas 
the species belonging to Agaricomycotina are split into two groups depending on 
the morphological structure of  their fruitbodies. The first group covers agaricoid, 
boletoid and cyphelloid taxa while the second one deals with aphyllophoroid, het-
erobasidioid and gastroid species. For each of the species, the following information 
is provided: correct name, synonyms, region of occurrence (defined according to 
the map given in the introductory chapter and often supplemented with an altitude 
value), some ecological data (substrate or name of the species hosting parasite) and 
stage of the fungus life cycle (in the case of rust fungi). The occurrence of the spe-
cies is based on the references to the sources reporting it as well as on the exsic-
cata studied. They were facilitated mostly by fungal collections of the Botanische 
Staatssammlung München (M) and of the Herbarium of the University in Regens-
burg (REG), although other herbaria (including private ones) contributed to the 
checklist as well. Such professionally preparing of the checklist provides an oppor-
tunity for revision and confirmation of many literature data and guarantees reliable 
effect. The species of special interest are annotated with taxonomical comments and 
endangered taxa are given the status according to the Red List criteria.

The book offers far more than just a checklist of fungal taxa. It is a valuable con-
tribution to the knowledge of chorology and ecology of many basidiomycetous fungi 
occurring in a region rich of diversified habitats.

M. Ruszkiewicz-Michalska

 ACTA MYCOLOGICA
 Vol. 45 (1): 125
 2010


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