Four New Records of Corticioid Fungi from Temperate Forests of Himachal Pradesh (India)
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https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2024/v150i6/169876Keywords:
Wood rot, Himalaya, Fungi, Basidiomycota, Mycoflora, Clamp connection.Abstract
Corticioid fungi form an important group of wood decaying organisms in the forest ecosystem. These fungi play vital role in the recycling of carbon because of their unique ability to secrete lignin and cellulose decaying enzymes. The forest ecosystems in different parts of the world are being over exploited for timber and other forest products. Taking into consideration of this fact the present studies on the diversity of corticioid fungi growing in association with wood, from temperate forests of Himachal Pradesh (India) were planned. Basidiocarps specimens of corticioid fungi were collected during the fungal forays conducted in temperate forests of Kullu district (Himachal Pradesh, India). These specimens were thoroughly investigated and described based on their macro and micro-morphological features. Four species of wood rotting fungi collected from wood of Cedrus deodara in the temperate forests of Kullu district are described as Athelopsis fusoidea (Jülich) TellerÃa, A. glaucina (Bourdot & Galzin) Oberw. ex Parmasto, Hyphoderma floccosum C.L. Zhao & Q.X. Guan and Rhizochaete sulphurina (P. Karst.) K.H. Larss. All the four species are new to India.
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