Basidiomycete Research Group
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Tuomo Niemelä: Microscopic identification of polypores.
ISBN 978-952-10-5931-5
91 pages. Botanical Bulletins of the University of Helsinki, vol. 193 (2011), third edition. In Finnish, with English abstract. Course booklet for microscopy, including description of the polypore basidiocarp structure, keys, genus descriptions, and ca. 60 microscopic drawings of polypore species. A new improved formula for Cotton Blue. An updated check-list includes 239 species found in Finland, including some new ones. Sold by Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. |
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Tuomo Niemelä: Guide to the polypores of Finland.
ISBN 978-952-10-7188-1
114 pages. Botanical Bulletins of the University of Helsinki, vol. 192 (2011). In Finnish and English (keys only). Course booklet for field training in polypore identification, including keys, brief descriptions, and name indexes. 18th updated edition, incl. Junghuhnia fimbriatella and Antrodia leucaena new to Finland, and new data on the identification of Phellinus chrysoloma and P. laricis. Sold by Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences.
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Tuomo Niemelä: Green Africa – plants and vegetation
ISBN 978-952-10-6959-8
320 pages. Norrlinia 23 (2011). In Finnish, with English abstract and Latin plant names in text and in illustrations. Focus on East Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique, and westwards to W Zambia, but with an overview to whole tropical Africa. Important vegetation types – savannas, drylands, rainforests, montane vegetation, wetlands – described and illustrated. The role of mycorrhizal fungi in different vegetation types; edible mushrooms, pathogenic fungi. Human life and its dependence and impact on vegetation extensively treated: agriculture, forestry, products collected in the wild, nature conservation, future prospects. Sacred forests. About 470 colour pictures, new Finnish names for almost 300 African trees and other plants. Sold by Botanical Museum. |
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Marja Härkönen & Elina Sivonen: Limasienet (The Myxomycetes of Finland)
ISBN 978-952-10-6805-8
224 pages. Norrlinia 22 (2011). In Finnish, with English abstract and Latin species names in text and in illustrations. All the 204 myxomycete species known to occur in Finland are dealt with, almost all of them colour illustrated. Macroscopic and microscopic descriptions, ecology, distributions in biological provinces of Finland, see selected pages. Introduction includes terminology, systematics, biology of myxomycetes and myxomycete-eating beetles, hints for collecting and preserving. Sold by Botanical Museum. |
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Otto Miettinen: Taxonomy and phylogeny of white-rot polypores – case studies in Hymenochaetales and Polyporales (Basidiomycota).
ISBN 978-952-10-6933-8 (PDF)
10 pages and 5 publications. Publications in Botany from the University of Helsinki, vol. 41 (2011). Phylogenetic analysis of white-rot basidiomycetes linked with the genera Antrodiella, Cinereomyces, Junghuhnia and Steccherinum, including taxonomic conclusions. Substantial research material from both temperate and tropical mycota. Doctoral thesis with limited distribution only; PDF available. |
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Heikki Kotitranta, Reima Saarenoksa & Ilkka Kytövuori: Aphyllophoroid fungi of Finland. A check-list with ecology, distribution, and threat categories.
ISBN 978-952-10-5310-8
224 pages. Norrlinia 19 (2009). In English and Finnish. 980 species of aphyllophoroid fungi of Finland with distribution maps, IUCN threat categories, life strategies and habitat data, Finnish and Swedish names, literature references to species, and index. 89 taxa new to Finland, many genera with taxonomic revisions. Five new combinations in Postia, Steccherinum and Oligoporus. Sold by Botanical Museum.
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Dmitry Schigel: Polypore assemblages in boreal old-growth forests, and associated Coleoptera.
ISBN 978-952-10-5825-7 (PDF)
44 pages and 5 publications. Publications in Botany from the University of Helsinki, vol. 39 (2009). Patterns of species interactions between fruit bodies of wood-rotting Basidiomycetes and associated Coleoptera are examined in old-growth forests in northern, southeastern, and southern Finland the Åland Islands. Doctoral thesis with limited distribution only; PDF available. |
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Knudsen H & Vesterholt J (eds): Funga Nordica – agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. – Narayana Press, 965 pp.
ISBN: 978-87-983961-3-0.
Tuula Niskanen, Ilkka Kytövuori, and Kare Liimatainen co-authored keys to sections and species of subgen. Cortinarius, Myxacium, and Telamonia, and sections Cortinarius, Veneti and Vibratiles. |
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Tuomo Niemelä: Torikseened Soomes ja Eestis
ISBN 978-9985-830-86-4
Estonian-language edition of the Finnish original (Niemelä 2005). Applied for Estonia by Erast Parmasto, Tartu, with newly written ecology and distribution data, and additional species. Detailed descriptions of all the included species, and most of them colour illustrated with in situ photographs, over 300 pictures. Estonian names for the species, and updated Latin nomenclature. The first comprehensive treatment of Estonian polypores. |
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Tuula Niskanen: Cortinarius subgenus Telamonia p.p. in North Europe.
ISBN 978-952-10-4445-8
33 pages + 5 publications. Publications in Botany from the University of Helsinki, vol. 37 (2008).
A revision of one subgenus in Cortinarius. About 200 species were recognised from the Nordic countries. Species concepts were first worked out with molecular methods, and good macroscopic and microscopic characteristics could then be found for identification. Results will be officially published in journals and in Funga Nordica. Doctoral thesis with limited distribution only; PDF available.. |
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Pertti Salo, Tuomo Niemelä, Ulla Nummela-Salo & Esteri Ohenoja (eds.): The ecology, distribution and Red List status of Finnish agarics and boletes.
ISBN 952-11-1996-9
526 pages. Suomen Ympäristö, vol. 769 (2005). Published by the Finnish Environment Institute. In Finnish, with English abstract. A check-list of all agarics and boleti known to occur in Finland, altogether 1702 species. Plenty of data on the distribution and ecology of each species, their herbarium specimens and literature references. Updated Latin nomenclature and national Finnish standard names for each species. Sold by Edita Publishing House, available online. |
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Pertti Salo, Tuomo Niemelä & Ulla Salo: Suomen sieniopas (Guide to Finnish fungi).
ISBN 951-0-30359-3 (Finnish edition)
ISBN 978-9949-14-326-9 (Estonian edition)
512 pages. Botanical Museum & WSOY Publishing House (2006). Field guide to larger fungi of Finland, 900 species briefly described, with colour photographs. Several recently described northern species are included. Sold by WSOY and bookshops. Now also in Estonian language! |
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Stefan Jakobsson & Tuomo Niemelä : Guide to the pleurotoid fungi of Finland.
ISBN 952-10-1881-X
60 pages. Botanical Bulletins of the University of Helsinki, vol. 183 (2004). In Finnish, with Swedish and English summary. Identification keys to genera and species, and brief descriptions of pleurotoid fungi found in the country and in neighbouring areas. About 80 species are treated. Terminology (also English terms) explained, with indexes of synonyms and accepted names. Sold out. |
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Tuomo Niemelä: Polypores, lignicolous fungi.
ISBN 952-10-2744-4
320 pages. Special issue of Norrlinia 13 (2005). In Finnish with Latin species names and English summary. All the 230 species found in Finland, plus 11 from neighbouring areas. Detailed descriptions, microscopy, spore dimensions based on new data from ca. 30 000 measurements including mean values and length/width ratios. Illustrated with ca. 300 colour pictures, mostly taken in the field. Keys, character tables to genera, index. Sold by Botanical Museum.
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Marja Härkönen, Tuomo Niemelä & Leonard Mwasumbi: Tanzanian mushrooms, edible, harmful and other fungi.
ISBN 952-10-1420-2
200 pages. Norrlinia 10 (2003). In English with species names in Swahili and other East African languages. 105 larger fungi fully described: 46 species of agarics, 35 polypores, plus boletes, pleurotoid fungi, chanterelles, ramarioid species, sterea, gastromycetes and auricularioid fungi. Comprehensive introduction to Tanzanian nature, fungal morphology and ecology, ethnomycology, edible and poisonous mushrooms. Three species described new to science. Over 200 pictures. Sold by Botanical Museum.
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Tuomo Niemelä : Polypores of Finland and adjacent Russia.
ISBN 952-10-0107-0
120 pages. Special issue of Norrlinia 8 (2001). In Russian with English abstract. Over 220 species fully described, including many rare and poorly known species. Over 90 species illustrated with black-and-white photographs taken in situ, and drawings of 44 species. Keys to pileate species using macroscopic characters, character tables to all the species. Index to accepted Latin names. Sold by Botanical Museum.
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