Identification and Collection of Macro Fungi (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) From Baturraden Botanical Garden, Banyumas

Atik Retnowati,Dhea Rifa Rahmah Edyawati,Nuniek Ina Ratnaningtyas

doi:10.20884/1.bioe.2019.1.2.1765

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Abstract

Agaricales is a group of macrofungi which comprises of many edible and poisonous members. Agaricales is characterized by having a fruiting body that is fleshy in some species and few species are not fleshy, lamellae, and stipe. The group usually grows well in quite moist areas and it cannot be found in dry conditions. The Indonesian Agaricales has not been intensively studied and there is still very few information on its diversity. While in fact, the diversity of Indonesian Agaricales is high due suitable environment and humidity for these fungi to grow. However, there are only a few species that have been identified. Under the circumstances above, this research is aimed to identify the Indonesian Agaricales, particularly from Baturraden Botanical Garden, Banyumas, Central Java and to collect the specimens as dry herbarium. The research involved collection, description, identification, preservation, and documentation of specimens, and the method used a survey with purposive random sampling. The collected Agaricales were identified by using both macromorphological and micromorphological characters. The macromorphological characters as shape, size, color, margin, surface, the flesh of the pileus, lamellae, and stipe were examined. The micromorphological characters as spores and the basidium were examined. Nine specimens had been collected in Baturraden Botanical Garden and were identified to 6 genera that belong to 4 families and 2 unidentified species, namely Hydropus sp., Mycena sp., Panellus sp., Psathyrella sp., Simocybe sp., DRRE 002, DRRE 010.

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Indonesia is the third largest tropical rainforest in the world after Brazil and Congo
The objectives of this research were: 1) To identify Agaricales fungi from Baturraden Botanical Garden, Banyumas; 2) To collect dry specimens of Agaricales fungi as herbarium
Identification process was done by comparing the morphological data to the described species which is published in HowtoIdentify Mushroom to Genus VI: Modern Genera book.Data of The morphological data and specimen collection that have been gain was being analyzed descriptively

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Indonesia is the third largest tropical rainforest in the world after Brazil and Congo. It has variety of coastal ecosystems, lands to highlands or mountains. Tropical rainforest is a home to a variety of flora and fauna species including fungi, and the fungi is the second largest diversity after insects. According to the humid forest environment and tropical temperatures that support fungal growth, so that Indonesia has a very high fungi diversity (Wahyudi et al, 2016). As a country that has extensive tropical rainforests with high species diversity of macro fungi, research on the diversity of macro fungi has not been widely done in Indonesia. The diversity of ecosystems in tropical forests caused by different geographical conditions causes a variety of species diversity within them (Firdhausi & Basah, 2018)

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