A checklist of agarics (gilled mushrooms) of Kerala State, India.

Abstract

Farook VA, Khan SS, Manimohan P 2013 -A checklist of agarics (gilled mushrooms) of Kerala State, India. Mycosphere 4(1), 97-131, Doi 10.5943 /mycosphere/4/1/6 A literature-based checklist of agarics (gilled mushrooms) occurring in Kerala State, India is provided. It consists of 616 species of gilled mushrooms belonging in 112 genera and 5 orders (Agaricales, Boletales, Gomphales, Polyporales, Russulales) of the Class Agaricomycetes, Phylum Basidiomycota. The relevant original information is contained in about 122 papers, many with only limited distribution and availability. Most of these papers have been published during the last two decades. The geographical distribution of the reports covers all 14 districts of the State. At the order level, Agaricales has the highest number of species (579), followed by Russulales (21). The six most represented genera are Hygrocybe, Entoloma (41 spp. each), Lepiota (39 spp.), Marasmius (27 spp.), Leucocoprinus and Pluteus (22 spp. each). Several of the species are known only from the region and there is a possibility that many are endemic to the region as the level of endemism in the flora and fauna of Kerala is very high. This list covers only a part of the actual diversity of gilled mushrooms in Kerala as studies on the agarics of this region have been uneven, inadequate and therefore inconclusive.

Mushroom Diversity of the Gandhi Krishi Vigyana Kendra (GKVK) Campus, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka (India)

“…Abundance of mushroom species belongs to Agrocybe and Leucoagaricus have been reported from Western ghats of Kerala (Arunkumar and Manimohan, 2009). Similarly, Farook et al, (2013) reported 616 species of gilled mushrooms belonging in 112 genera and 50 orders from Kerala state. Ranadive et al, (2013) collected 20 species of Aphyllophorales from 10 host plants growing in 15 different localities of the Western Ghats of Pune districts of Maharashtra state, India.…”

First record of Macrocybe titans (Tricholomataceae, Basidiomycota) in Argentina

“…8). Even though apparently M. titans is restricted to the Neotropics, Chen and Chen (1999) described it from the Taichung (Taiwan), and Vrinda et al (1997) and Farook et al (2013) recorded it from the Kerala state (India), which would indicate that is a pantropical species. The new record presented here represents the southernmost locality of this species and the first record of the genus from Argentina.…”

“…Macrocybe titans has a pantropical distribution, with several records in tropical and subtropical northern hemisphere of America (Pegler et al 1998) and Asia (Vrinda et al 1997, Chen and Chen 1999, Farook et al 2013). In America, it was originally described based on material from southern USA (Bigelow and Kimbrough 1980) and then recorded from Mexico (Cifuentes andGuzman 1981, Singer 1990), Costa Rica (Pegler et al 1998 Colombia (Corrales and López-Quintero 2005), Ecuador, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Venezuela (Pegler et al 1998).…”

Biodiversity Studies on Macro Fungi with Special Reference to Order Agaricales: Indian Scenario

“…Review of Literature revealed that most of the records on Termitomyces has been made in Kerala State. Farook VA et al [29] having a total of 15 species, followed by 10 species from Goa and 9 species from Karnataka. From Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra they reported 2 and 3 species; respectively.…”