Author: Rifai, M. A.
Title: The Australasian Pezizales in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Description: Amsterdam: N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappu, 1968. First edition. Pp. 295; 292 text-figures. Original printed cream color wrappers, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, green pictorial dust jacket lettered in white on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. In: Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, second series, volume 57, no. 3. The text is in English. The Pezizales are an order of the subphylum Pezizomycotina within the phylum Ascomycota. The order contains 16 families, 199 genera, and 1683 species. It contains some species of economic importance, such as morels, the black and white truffles, and the desert truffles (from Wiki). This volume presents the species from Australasia. The work is from the collection of mycologist Nancy S. Weber and was given to her by W. C. Denison in 1997 (the inscription is on the title page). Some chipping to the top edges of the dust jacket, a clean copy in very good condition..

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