Alec Wood (mycologist)

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Alec E. Wood is a mycologist affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia who has published major studies, describing a large number new species, in the genera Galerina[1] and Amanita.[2] With Tom May, he has co-authored Fungi of Australia Volume 2A, Catalogue and Bibliography of Australian Macrofungi - Basidomycetes in 1997.[3]

He has also authored popular identification books on Australian fungi.[4]

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  1. ^ Wood AE (2001) Studies in the genus Galerina. Australian Systematic Botany 14, 615–676
  2. ^ Wood AE. (1997) Studies in the genus Amanita (Agaricales) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10: 723-854
  3. ^ T.W.May & A.E.Wood (1997) Fungi of Australia Volume 2A: Catalogue and Bibliography of Australian Macrofungi 1. Basidiomycota. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-05929-6
  4. ^ Wood AE. (1990). Australian Mushrooms and Toadstools: How to identify them (revised ed.). New South Wales University Press, Sydney. ISBN 0-86840-044-0

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