Wild mushrooms of Lulung, Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha, India: Food and Medicinal aspects

Supriya Kulkarni; S. Joshi; M. Kumar; S. K. Nayak; Sanjeet Kumar; H. N. Thatoi

doi:10.36808/if/2025/v151i7/170647

Wild mushrooms of Lulung, Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha, India: Food and Medicinal aspects

Authors

Supriya Kulkarni Department of Biotechnology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Takatpur, Baripada, Odisha
S. Joshi Baripada Forest Division, Dept of Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Govt of Odisha, Odisha
M. Kumar Department of Botany, Christ College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
S. K. Nayak Department of Biotechnology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Takatpur, Baripada, Odisha
Sanjeet Kumar Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Odisha
H. N. Thatoi Department of Biotechnology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Takatpur, Baripada, Odisha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2025/v151i7/170647

Keywords:

Ethnic tribes, Ethnomedicine, Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Wild mushrooms.

Abstract

Covid-19 readdresses the value and utilization of the nutraceutical to provide food and medicinal stuffs and to boost immunity. In these aspects, researchers globally searching wild source for existing traditional nutraceutical. Keeping these in view, an attempt has been made to collect the edible, medicinal and nutraceutical wild mushrooms from the Lulung area of Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR), Odisha. Extensive field survey was made to collect the desired information through questionnaire from tribal communities of study areas. Forty species were enumerated belonging to 28 genera and 22 families. Out of these, 24 species were edible and the rest species have either medicinal, toxic, or not evaluated for their potential.

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