Six new reports of corticioid fungi from India

Authors

  • Poonam Department of Botany, Government Post Graduate College, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh 176314, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3659-3761
  • Avneet Pal Singh Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab 147002, India.
  • Gurpaul Singh Dhingra Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab 147002, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9322.16.12.26272-26282

Keywords:

Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, diversity, northwestern Himalaya, taxonomy

Abstract

The objective of the present paper is to describe and illustrate six species of corticioid fungi collected from four tehsils of the Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh (India). The described species, Brevicellicium exile (H.S.Jacks.) K.H.Larss. & Hjortstam, Kurtia magnargillacea (Boidin & Gilles) Karasiński, Physodontia lundellii Ryvarden & H.Solheim, Rhizochaete violascens (Fr.) K.H.Larss., Sistotrema coroniferum (Höhn. & Litsch.) D.P.Rogers & H.S.Jacks, and Tubulicrinis cinctus G.Cunn. are new additions to corticioid fungi reported from India.

Author Biographies

Poonam, Department of Botany, Government Post Graduate College, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh 176314, India.

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Avneet Pal Singh, Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab 147002, India.

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Gurpaul Singh Dhingra, Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab 147002, India.

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26-12-2024

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Vol. 16 No. 12 (2024)

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