Taxonomy of Fungi Imperfecti : Proceedings of the First International Specialists' Workshop Conference on Criteria and Terminology in the Classification of Fungi Imperfecti, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada

Mycologists have been searching for a better system of classification of Fungi Imperfecti than that based on mature morphology. This volume documents an intensive phase of that search. It is largely an account of the proceedings of the First International Specialists' Workshop Conference on Criteria and Terminology in the Classification of Fungi Imperfecti held at the Environmental Sciences Centre of the University of Calgary, Kananaskis, Alberta. The invited contributors, all mycologists of international reputation, have had long experience with Fungi Imperfecti. The first fifteen chapters follow the course of the conference: they reproduce the formal papers and the lively discussion which followed. Chapter 16 describes a new, experimental scheme of classification distilled from the conclusions reached at Kananaskis. Four chapters concerned with the application of this scheme and with a variety of techniques now being used to extend knowledge of the Fungi Imperfecti round out the volume. The text is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs and drawings. In editing the volume, Professor Kendrick has given the text continuity by inserting short linking passages. The result is a readable and very informative account which conveys the unique atmosphere of this important conference. Contents 5 Preface 7 Acknowledgments 9 1. Introductory Remarks 11 2. Phycomycetes, Basidiomycetes, and Ascomycetes as Fungi Imperfecti 17 3. Characters of Conidiophores as Taxonomic Criteria 47 4. Blastospores, Aleuriospores, Chlamy do spores 60 5. Porospores 81 6. Fine Structural Studies on "Poroconidium" Formation in Stemphylium botryosum 85 7. The Phialide 102 8. The Organization of the Penicillus of Pénicillium claviforme Bainier 130 9. Annellophores 142 10. The Sympodula and the Sympodioconidium 151 11. Arthroconidia and Meristem Arthroconidia 170 12. The Basauxic Conidiophore 186 13. Imperfect-Perfect Connections in Ascomycetes 194 14. Pleomorphism in Fungi Imperfecti 212 15. Discussions on Terminology 234 16. Conclusions and Recommendations 263 17. Conidium Ontogeny in Pycnidial and Acervular Fungi 273 18. Karyology of Conidiogenesis in Some Hyphomycetes 289 19. Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy and Freeze-Etching Techniques used in Ultrastructural Studies of Hyphomycetes 302 20. Conidium Shape 311 Postscript 315 Members of the Conference 317