ABOUT THIS PAGE
When I started
to study the fungi of South American Nothofagus forests
in 1995, I missed colour illustrations, especially
of endemic taxa. Since then, some progress has been
made
and at
least two very useful colour field guides are now available
for macrofungi of Southern Argentina and Chile (Gamundi & Horak
1995, Lazo 2001), however these may not be easy to
purchase and depict only a rather small number of taxa.
This page is meant to be an easily accessible (although
still modest) collection of portraits of Chilean fungi
which may help the interested person to identify common
and
less common species or simply to get a glimpse of species
diversity of this region. I have taken the photos in
the field or in laboratory, mostly with a Nikon Coolpix
950 digital camera at high resolution jpeg format.
In the lab, specimens were placed on grey or black
cardboard and in most cases an additional slave flash
on a tripod
was used to improve illumination. I intend to upgrade
and extend this page regularly and therefore encourage
visitors to send me their critical comments and suggestions
by e-mail. In the future I will include additional
chapters about fungal ecology, especially mycorrhizal
symbiosis in South American Nothofagus forests.
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