Introducing the Fungicon-Edition

The publishing company devotes itself mainly to the publishing of Erhard Ludwig's "Pilzkompendium", which is intended to appear in no particular order with double volumes.

Volume 1:

Volume 1 contains 89 genera of gilled fungi (648 species) presented on 188 plates (format 31 x 22) with watercolour-paintings in natural size. The text volume (format 17 x 24) has 758 pages (German with English summaries) and contains 20 new taxa as well as 13 new taxonomic combinations.

Volume 2:

The larger genera of the Agaricales with coloured spore dust (with exception of the Cortinariaceae). These are: Agaricus (50), Allopsalliota (1), Conocybe (50), Coprinus (110); Entoloma (189), Lacrymaria (1), Pholiotina (20), Pluteus (38) und Psathyrella (88). In brackets the number of the represented species, further are mentioned in the text with short descriptions and literature references. Specialists such as A. Hausknecht, M. Meusers, M. E. Noordeloos and L. Örstadius have been consulted and colaborated. This volume contains 48 new taxa and 16 new combinations. The number of the plates was raised by 16 compared with vol 1. There are totally 1100 collections portrayed.

Volume 3:

	The remaining genera of gilled fungi with white spore dust: Amanita, Camarophyllopsis, Clitocybe, Collybia, Gymnopus, Hemimycena, Hygrocybe, Hygroaster, Hygrophorus, Lepiota, Leucoagaricus, Leucocoprinus, Leucopholiota, Macrolepiota, Mycena, Rhodocollybia, Roridomyces, Tricholoma, Tricholosporum.

Volume 4:

	Cortinariaceae: Cortinarius (part I), Galerina, Hebeloma, Hebelomina, Inocybe, Phaeogalera (Cortinarius ss. str. 2 taxa, Dermocybe 24 taxa, Galerina 41 taxa, Hebeloma 49 taxa, Inocybe 237 taxa, Leprocybe 14 taxa, Phaeogalera 2 taxa, Phlegmacium 157 taxa, 77 new taxa and combinations)

The following volumes are scheduled:

Here are some testimonies from well-known mycologists:

"... without any question this book will very soon be established as almost indispensable determination literature because of its detailed nature, which is not achieved by any other work in German language" (T. R. Lohmeyer in "Zeitschrift für Mykologie").

"... all in all a goldmine for those who are interested in gilled fungi." (T. Læssøe in "Svampe").

"A fantastic work... I don't see any reason why the "Pilzkompendium" should not become t h a t standard work all will use." (M. Elfström in "Jordstjärnan)

"There is no iconography known to me, which reproduces macromycetes in such accuracy, expressiveness and faithfulness of colour scheme." (A. Hausknecht in "Österreichische Zeitschrift füpr Pilzkunde")

"A book to rank among the works of Lange, Ricken, Bresadola...". (N. Arnold in litt.)

"When finished, this compendium will be without any doubt the most important publication on European macromycetes of the twenty-first century." (M. E. Noordeloos in "Persoonia")

"deserves to be regarded as the single most important iconographical reference work on fungi that ever has been produced" (M. Tortelli in "Field Mycology").

In the meantime the author was honoured for his work with the prestigious "Anton-de-Bary-prize" of the "Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft".

From left to right: Prof. Dr. A. Bresinsky (chairman of honour), Erhard Ludwig, Dr. Clovis Duanla-Meli (prize winner from Cameroon), Prof. Dr. P. Poschlod (1. chairman).
Photo: Prof. Dr. A. Schmidt