Contents -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Why Study Tropical Fungi? -- 2 Key to Tropical Species of Nectria-like Fungi -- 3 A Reassessment of the Taxonomy of Some Tropical Sooty Moulds -- 4 Lignicolous Freshwater Higher Fungi with Reference to their Teleomorph and Anamorph Stages -- 5 The Pandanaceae - Does it Have a Diverse and Unique Fungal Biota? -- 6 Aspects of Graminicolous Downy Mildew Biology: Perspectives for Tropical Plant Pathology and Peronosporomycetes Phylogeny -- 7 Invasive Neotropical Pathogens of Tree Crops -- 8 Lichens of Tropical Forests -- 9 The Importance of Invertebrate-pathogenic Fungi from the Tropics -- 10 Tropical Mycoses: Hazards to Travellers -- 11 Recent and Future Discoveries of Pharmacologically Active Metabolites from Tropical Fungi -- Index.