Synopsis The book entitled "A Textbook of Fungi" is a standard book and embodies a fairly comprehensive treatment of the fundamental facts and aspects of fungi. This book will serve as an introduction to the subject of fungi to the beginners in this field. Actually the book is intended to fulfil the long felt need of students of graduate and post-graduate level of all Indian universities. The syllabi of all the manuscript of this text. This work may also serve as laboratory manual. This book has been written in easy and fluent language expressive and self-explanatory labelled diagrams, concise but not too brief, written to the point starting from fundamentals and finishing to the most advanced and current concepts. All diagrams have been provided with detailed legends. Some diagrams have been drawn the author himself from the original source, while the remaining ones are quoted from the authentic works.