Additions to the Agaricales of Kolhapur District, Maharashtra, India
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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9010.17.7.27207-27225Keywords:
Basidiomycota, edible mushrooms, fungal diversity, fungal ecology, macrofungi, new records, taxonomy, Western Ghats, wild mushroomAbstract
This paper is a part of the series dealing with taxonomy of members of Agaricales from Kolhapur District. In the present investigation 10 species belonging to order Agaricales—Agrocybe pediades, Amanita manicata, Bolbitius coprophilus, Entoloma serrulatum, E. theekshnagandhum, Hymenopellis radicata, Macrocybe gigantea, Schizophyllum commune, Termitomyces heimii, T. microcarpus—have been elaborated, of which A. manicata, B. coprophilus, E. serrulatum, E. theekshnagandhum, M. gigantea have been reported for the first time from Maharashtra State.
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