Abstract

Mushrooms represent an undescribed, poorly documented clade of eukaryotes with enormous environmental and economic benefits for the humans throughout the world. This paper deals with collection and identification of eleven interesting wild mushrooms from different forests of Tripura, Northeast India. These wild mushrooms were identified on the basis of macro and micro-morphological features along with their habitats and distributions. These eleven mushrooms species identified as Pluteus americanus (P. Banerjee & Sundberg) Justo, E.F. Malysheva & Minnis, Cookeina tricholoma (Mont.) Kuntze, Stropharia stercoraria (Schumach.) Quel., Auricularia delicata (Mont.) Henn., Auricularia auricula-judae (Bull.) J. Schrot., Auricularia sp.1, Auricularia sp.2, Lentinus sp., Inocybe sp., Clitocybe sinopica (Fr.) P. Kumm. and Agrocybe splendida Clemencon. Amongst them four species namely A. splendida, C. sinopica, P. americanus and S. stercoria are new records for India.

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