Myxomycetes: A Handbook of Slime Molds
By Steven L. Stephenson and Henry Stempen
This book identifies all the species one is likely to encounter, with extensive information on their structural features, distribution, and ecological associations. Superbly illustrated, including keys, it is an introduction to their biology as well as a field guide.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 200 pp.
- Book dimensions: 6 x 9 in. (230 x 150 mm.)
- Images: 100 b/w illustrations
- ISBN-10: 0881924393
- ISBN-13: 9780881924398
About the authors
Steven L. Stephenson
Steven L. Stephenson is a research professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he served as director of a worldwide project to document the distribution of all the slime molds and their relatives. He has studied fungi and slime molds on six continents.
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Henry Stempen
The late Henry Stempen was Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The watercolors he painted for Myxomycetes have been donated by his widow to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, which featured some of them in its 8th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration.
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