National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
An account of Boleteceous mushrooms reported from different part of India is given. Total 84 species of Boletaceae were compiled from literature with records of habitat, distribution and references. Boletus spp. are the most common (37 species) followed by Strobilomyces (9 species), Tylopilus (7 species), Boletellus (6 species), Xerocomus (5 species), Suillus (3 species), Chalciporus, Retiboletus and Pulveroboletus (2 species each), Australoboletus, Borofutus, Hemileccinum, Hortiboletus, Leccinum. Octaviania, Phylloporus, Retiboletus, Rhodactina, Suillellus, Xerocomellus (one species each). Among Indian states, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim represent the most boletes mushroom (16 species each) followed, Meghalaya (13), West Bengal (11), Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand (7 each), Jammu & Kashmir (5) Chhattisgarh and Kerala (4) and rest of states showed 3 or less number of species. Six species of boletes namely: Boletellus ananas, B. chrysenteroides, B. dissiliens, B. pseudochrysenteroides, B. corneri and Boletus edulis were recorded for the first time from sal forest of central India (Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh). These fungi are known to form ectomycorrizal association with sal trees.
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