Nigerian Mushrooms: Underutilized Non-Wood Forest Resources

Okhuoya, J. A.; Akpaja, E. O.; Osemwegie, Omorefosa Osarenkhoe; Oghenekaro, Abbot O.; Ihayere, C. A

doi:10.4314/jasem.v14i1.56488

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“…and Amanita spp. (Okhuoya et al, 2010), were not reported in any of the references assessed. This was not surprising as most of the tropical woody tree species are unable to form associations with ECM fungi (Brundrett, 2009), particularly those indigenous tree species of Ethiopia.…”

Section: Mushrooms In Indigenous Forestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wild mushrooms in Ethiopia: A review and synthesis for future perspective

2017

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Aim of study: To review and provide all-purpose information about wild mushrooms in Ethiopia and to create awareness for conservation and use of mycological resources.Area of study: We focused mainly on Ethiopia, where information about wild mushrooms is scanty and their status is unknown under the rampant degradation of the habitats.Main results: We reviewed all relevant references related to wild mushrooms and their ecological niches, cultural practices and species used for cultivation as well as the anthropogenic factors affecting the conservation of fungal diversity.Research highlights: This review summarizes issues related to the diversity of wild mushrooms, the main ecological niches and their associated fungal species, and mushroom cultivation practices in Ethiopia. Moreover, threats and the need for future conservation of wild mushrooms in the country are also reported. This review paper can serve as base line information and indicator for further mycological studies in Ethiopia as well as in other developing countries with similar scenarios.

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Section: Mushrooms In Indigenous Forestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wild mushrooms in Ethiopia: A review and synthesis for future perspective

2017

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“…Macrofungal diversity is an important component of the global diversity, particularly community diversity, which is an essential part of fungal diversity [7]. Mushrooms are widespread in nature and they still remain the earliest form of fungi known to mankind [8].…”

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Species Richness and Traditional Knowledge of Macrofungi (Mushrooms) in the Awing Forest Reserve and Communities, Northwest Region, Cameroon

Kinge

Apalah

Nji

et al. 2017

Journal of Mycology

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Macrofungi are diverse in their uses as food and medicine and several species serve as decomposers and also form mycorrhizal associations. Awing forest reserve is diverse in plants and fungi species. However, no work has been carried out to assess the diversity and traditional knowledge of macrofungi in the area. Diversity surveys were carried out in three altitudes using transects of 50×20 m for six months in 2015. Ethnomycology studies were carried out in fifteen communities using focus group discussion, pictorial presentation, and questionnaires. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics in Microsoft Excel 2010. Seventy-five species belonging to thirty families were identified by morphology. Thirty-six species were found only in the low altitude, 16 in the mid altitude, and 16 species in high altitude. One species was common to low and mid altitude and also low and high altitude; five species were common to mid and high altitude while there was no species common to all three altitudes. The indigenes of the Awing communities commonly called mushroom "Poh" and use it mainly as food and medicine and in mythological beliefs. The most utilized species as food and medicine included Termitomyces titanicus, Laetiporus sulphureus, and Ganoderma sp.

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“…Invariably, it can be summated that the formal institutionalization of mycology (mycodiveristy, ethnomycology, mycosystematics, mycoecology, etc.) research structure is still developing and incongruous with reports affirming Africa as a potential biodiversity hotspots of mushroom diversity with undocumented and cryptic taxa [14,18,22]. The reports of Gryzenhout et al [22], Labarère and Menini, [26] and Crouse et al [27] on African mushrooms were limited to central and east Africa.…”

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“…It is ecology dependent and showed comparative degree of inconsistency in their use as food, source of income and medicine [18][19][20]. In addition, African ethnomycological works are reflection of the depth of understanding of the potential values inherent in mushroom genetic resource and strongly influenced by folk taxonomy.…”

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Ethnomycological Conspectus of West African Mushrooms: An Awareness Document

Osarenkhoe¹,

John²,

Theophilus³

2014

AiM

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The ethnological knowledge of mushrooms despite its millennial existence and its empirical documentation are more recent phenomena. In Africa, the knowledge of their historical uses as food, medicine, source of income and small scale businesses, and the sociological impacts (myth, culture and spirituality) are apparently threatened due to slow ethnomycology research drive. The poor identification and documentation of edible and medicinal species of mushrooms in many developing nations have created some degrees of inconsistencies in their usages relative to folk medicine practice, food and mythological beliefs. Their relevance in modern day pharmaceutics and nutraceuticals is a product of human experimentation over time. Factors that may be anthropogenic, ethnographic, ethnoecological/environmental have been implicated in mushrooms underutilization and under-exploration of mushrooms in West Africa. Ethnomycological literatures on West Africa are scant, random, are limited in scope and fraught with taxonomic inconsistencies. This paper is based on extant ethnomycology treatise and aims at representing an integrative knowledge of useful mushrooms of West Africa and their uses vis-a-vis indigent cultures.

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Nigerian Mushrooms: Underutilized Non-Wood Forest Resources

Cited by 49 publications

References 29 publications

Wild mushrooms in Ethiopia: A review and synthesis for future perspective

Wild mushrooms in Ethiopia: A review and synthesis for future perspective

Species Richness and Traditional Knowledge of Macrofungi (Mushrooms) in the Awing Forest Reserve and Communities, Northwest Region, Cameroon

Ethnomycological Conspectus of West African Mushrooms: An Awareness Document

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