FunKey:
an Interactive Guide to the Genera of Australian Macrofungi.
Key to Agarics
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FunKey:
an Interactive Guide to the Genera of Australian Macrofungi.
Key to Agarics
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FunKey is the first comprehensive, interactive key to the genera of agarics known from Australia.
Agarics are macrofungi with lamellae, commonly known as mushrooms or toadstools. The agarics are one of the more conspicuous groups of fungi, often attracting attention through their variety of colour and form. They carry out important roles in ecosystems, by forming partnerships with trees (mycorrhizae) and through decomposition of wood and litter. Some species are edible, but others are highly toxic.
FunKey: Key to Agarics will make identification of this important and alluring group of organisms accessible to a wide range of users, including professional taxonomists, ecologists, plant and forest pathologists, poisons information and healthcare professionals, conservation and land managers, environmental consultants, field naturalists, citizen scientists, bushwalkers, artists and nature photographers.
FunKey: Key to Agarics contains considerable explanatory material about the structure of agarics, and will be of assistance in identification workshops and higher secondary and tertiary student classes.
The latest web-integrated Lucid™ Player provides an easy-to-use interface, with comprehensive fact-sheets for each genus, detailed information on the interpretation of all characters, and numerous drawings and photographs of macroscopic and microscopic features.
About the Key
Electronic series: ABRS Identification Series
Publishers: Australian Biological Resources Study/Identic Pty Ltd
Authors: T.W.May, K.Thiele, C.W.Dunk, S.H.Lewis
About the USB 2.0 drive
Year: 2014
ISBN-13: 978 0 642 56877 9
System Requirements
The Java Runtime Environment is required for FunKey to operate. Java can be obtained free of charge from www.java.com.
Operating system:
Windows Vista (SP2) / Win7 / Win8 (Desktop) / Win Server 2008 / Win Server 2012 (64-bit)
Macintosh OS X 10.7.3 or greater; administrator privileges for installation; and 64-bit browser
Linux Oracle Linux 5.5+ / Oracle Linux 6.x (32-bit), 6.x (64-bit)* / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5+, 6.x (32-bit), 6.x (64-bit)* / Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and above / Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, 11.x
System memory:
Windows 128 mb RAM; 64 mb for Windows XP (32-bit)
Disk space 124 mb
Web browser: Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.6 and above, Chrome. A 64-bit browser (e.g. Safari or Firefox) is required to run Java 7 on Mac OS X and 32-bit browsers such as Chrome do not support Java 7 on the Mac platform
* Only 64-bit JVM is certified by Oracle to run