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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 will add 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 The outdated genus-level classification of fungi has been replaced by two cladograms—diagrams that illustrate how organisms branch off from their last common ancestors.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, the book introduces readers to fascinating, common slime molds (myxomycetes). A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms incorporates new understanding of fungal taxonomy that has been largely 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.

ISBN-13: 9780700633067

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Publication Date: 09-15-2022

Pages: 408

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

Sharon Kay is a field mycologist in Lawrence, Kansas. She has over forty years of experience foraging and researching and served as a former president of the Kaw Valley Mycological Society.Benjamin Sikes is associate professor and scientist of microbial ecology t the University of Kansas.Caleb Morse is collection manager for the Division of Botany in the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Read This First!

How to Identify a Mushroom, Sherry Kay and Ben Sikes

The Edibility Issue: Poisons and Individual Reactions, Dean Abel

An Anthology of Kansas Mushrooms

How to Use the Keys

Key to Orders

Phylum Basidiomycota

Conventional Order Agaricales: Some of the Gilled Mushrooms

Key to Families

Family Hygropharaceae

Families Marasmiaceae, Mycenaceae, and Omphalotaceae

Family Physalacriaceae

Families Tricholomataceae and some Former Tricholomataceae: Hydnangiaceae and Lyophyllaceae, Phyllotopsidaceae, Pleurotaceae, and Schizophyllaceae

Families Bolbitiaceae, Entolomataceae, and Pluteaceau

Families Cortinariaceae, Crepidotaceae, and Inocybaceae

Famies Hymenagastraceae, Psathyrellaceae, and Strophariaceae

Family Agaricaceae

Conventional Order Russulales

Family Russulaceae

Conventional Order Boletales

Orders Hymenochaetales, Polyporales, and some anamolous members of Agaricales and Russulales, mostly with pored hymenia but some with diverse hymenial forms

Orders Cantharellales, Gomphales, and Thelephorales and some atypical members of other orders: Chanterells, corals, and tooth mushrooms

Order Tremellales and other jellies

Order Phallales: Stinkhorns

Conventional Class Gasteromycetes: Gasteroid fungi

Phylum Ascomycota

Orders Helotiales, Leotiales, Pezizales, and Phacidiales: Mostly cup fungi

Orders Boliniales, Hypocreales, and Xylariales

Myxomycetes, or Mycetozoa: The slime molds

More on Mushrooms

Sex Lies, and the Truth about Mushrooms, Dean Abel, Sherry Kay, and Ben Sikes

Kansas Habitats: Where to Find Mushrooms, Ben Sikes and Bruce Horn

Forays: A Basic Kit and Some Risks, Sherry Kay

Online Resources for Identifying Mushrooms, Ben Sikes

Mushrooms in the Kitchen, Sherry Kay

Growing Mushrooms in Kansas, Terry Shistar

Mycological Latin, Richard Kay

Mycology in Kansas: A Brief History, Richard Kay

A Life List for the Kansas Mycophile, Sherry Kay

Appendix A: Relationships among the Species of Phylum Basidiomycota

Appendix B: Relationships among the Species of Phylum Ascomycota

Glossary

Picture Credits

Index