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Diversity of Macrofungi from North Maharashtra-I © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) Diversity of Macrofungi from North Maharashtra-I S. Y. Patil S. S. V. P. S. L. K. Dr. P. R. Ghogrey Science College, Dhule [email protected] ABSTRACT: Macrofungi (Mushrooms) are an important and integral component of the ecosystem. Mostly mushrooms are fleshy, sub fleshy or sometimes leathery, umbrella like sporophore, saprophytic in nature. The survey was conducted in rainy and winter season of 2015 in 3 different places which included Mountains, Grassland and Forest areas of North Maharashtra. A total number of fourteen species belonging to thirteen genera were recorded viz. Agaricus silvaticus, Agaricus xanthodermus, Artomyces pyxidata, Bolbitus titubans, Coprinus micaceus, Cyathus striatus, Dacryopinax spathularia, Geastrum triplex, Laccaria laccata, Lenzites betulina, Marasmius siccus, Mycena subcaaerulea, Polyporous umbellatus and Stereum hirsutum. Among those except Agaricus silvaticus and Agaricus xanthodermus reaming were found rarely. Keywords: Macrofungi, Pimpalner, North Maharashtra Introduction: Macro fungi are generally mushrooms, which possess fleshy, sub fleshy, leathery, umbrella like fruiting bodies, which bears spore producing gills. These macro fungi are edible or poisonous. Mushrooms are seasonal fungi with diverse importance in the forest ecosystem. Mushrooms have been extensively studied in most of the parts of India. Berkely (1852) described 15 species of mushrooms in his ‘Decades of Fungi’ from Darjiling. Latter on Murrill (1915), Saini and Atri (1981, 1982, and 1984), Natarajan and Raman (1980) made a major contribution in Boletaceae. Sathe and Deshpande (1979) discovered new genus Chlorolepiota of Agaricales from India Contribution to knowledge of Indian Aphyllophorales, Agaricales and Polyporales by Natrajan (1995), Natarajan et al (1980, 1985), Bakshi (1971), Vaidya and his colleagues (1987, 1990, 1991, 1993), Sharma (1995), Patil and Thite (1978), Patil et al. (1979,1995), Nanda (1996). Recently various workers studied on macro fungi, Bhosle et al (2010), Randive et al (2011), Nagadesh and Arya (2012), Adnan et al (2012), Shauket et al (2012), Kumari and Atri (2012), Hakimi et al (2013), Lakhanpal (2014), Senthilarasu (2014), Borkar et al (2015). New additions of macro fungi to science were made by Aravindakshan and Manimohan (2013) discovered new species of Mycena from Kerala, Das et al (2013) find three new species of Russula from Sikkim, Kaur et al (2013) discovered two new species of Agaricus from Punjab. JETIRAO06046 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 302 © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) Materials and Methods: Regular field trips were carried out during 2015 in rainy and winter seasons at Pimpalner, Toranmal forests. Macroscopic observations like shape, size, colour of fruiting bodies were made at time of collection. Collected fruiting bodies of fungi packed in polythene bags and holes were made to bags for aeration, collected samples brought to laboratory on same day to avoid decay for further work. Microscopic details were studied by free hand sections mounted in 10 % KOH, stained with 1 % Cango red solution. Some sections were mounted in Cotton Blue. Identification of fungi with the help of Lakhanpal (1996), John Ramsbottom (1969), Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans (2011), Hakimi et al (2013) and other relevant literature. Results Taxonomic Account: 1) Agaricus silvaticus Schaeffer Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, saprobes. Cap brown to reddish brown, covered with scales, weakly convex up 150 mm diameter. Gills greyish pink to brown at maturity. Stem long smooth up to 150 mm height, large pendulus ring. Spores long ellipsoid 7x3 µm. 2) Agaricus xanthodermus Genevier Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, in debris, in clusters Cap smooth, white to cream coloured, largely convex, diameter up to 150 mm, gills pink, chocolate brown at maturity, stem long, smooth, and white to cream, up to 150 mm in height, with a thin pendulous ring, the base of stem bulbous. Spores 4.5-6x2-3 µm 3) Bolbitius titubans (Bulliard)Fries Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, in debris. Cap smooth, bright yellow, cone shaped, thin, with striate margin, up to 40 mm wide, gills pale yellowish, stem narrow, fragile, pale yellow, up to 100 mm in height. 4) Artomyces pyxidata (Pers.) Julich Habitat: On tree trunks The sunset spindle produces smooth, tubular or slightly flattened branched fruiting bodies with pointed tips. Height up to 75 mm and diameter up to 5 mm. 5) Coprinus micaceus (Bolton) Vilgalys et al Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, in debris. Cap up to 5 cm wide, conical to campanulate, margins curved upward, narrow striations, gills thin, black, liquefying, stem up to 8 cm in height, thick, white brittle. 6) Cyathus striatus (Hudson) Persoon Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, in debris. JETIRAO06046 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 303 © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) The fluted Bird’s Nest forms fruiting bodies that first looks like a tiny, shaggy, brown goblet with a smooth, whitish top. This top surface ruptures at maturity to reveal the grey egg like peridioles below. Height of fruiting body up to 15 mm and diameter up to 8 mm. 7) Dacryopinax spathularia (Schweinitz) Martin Habitat: On tree trunks The fan shaped jelly produces yellow-orange, rubbery-gelatinous fruiting bodies that are fan or spatula shaped at the top, with gelatinous or cartilaginous stalk. Cap diameter up to 10 mm, height up to 25 mm. 8) Geastrum triplex Junghuhn Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, in debris. The collared earthstar produces fruiting bodies that are onion-shaped at first, with pointed tip. At maturity thick outer skin splits and peels back to form4-7 rays or arms, revealing puffball spore sac at the center. Height up to 60mm and diameter up to 120 mm. 9) Laccaria laccata (Scopoli)Cooke Habitat: On tree trunk Caps convex, expanding at maturity, wavy at margins, smooth cream colour, diameter up to 50 mm gills distinct, stem fibrous, cap coloured, spores 3-5x2.5-3 µm 10) Lenzites betulina (Linnaeus) Fries Habitat: On tree trunks Fruiting bodies leathery, finely hairy caps, zoned in grey and yellow colours, gills irregular, often splitting or joining together, cap thickness up to 5mm and diameter up to 50 mm. Spores white to cream. 11) Marasmius siccus (Scop.) Fr. Habitat: On tree trunk Cap up to 5cm wide, campanulate, yellowish red to rose brown, darker in the center, gills white to pale reddish brown, stem up to 4 cm long, thick dark brown 12) Mycena subcaerulea (Peck) Sacc. Habitat: In wood land growing on ground, in debris Cap up to 10 mm wide, conical to campanulate, brown in center, yellowish at margins, gills pale flesh colour, stem 3-4 cm long, thick, white. 13) Polyporous umbellatus (Persoon) Fries Habitat: On tree trunks Umbrella like large, compound fruiting bodies with multiple caps arising from central stem, height and diameter up to 500 mm. The caps are grey-brown, smooth, and almost circular, pores are white to cream, and strongly decurrent. 14) Stereum hirsutum (Willdenow) Persoon Habitat: On tree trunks JETIRAO06046 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 304 © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) Thick leathery bracket-like fruiting bodies, caps are finely hairy, zoned in shades of grey, ocher, brown, or red brown, sometimes green-tinted by algae, margins are wavy, cap 2mm in thickness, 40 mm in diameter. Agaricus silvaticus Schaeffer Agaricus xanthodermus Genevier Bolbitius titubans (Bulliard)Fries Coprinus micaceus (Bolton) Vilgalys et al Artomyces pyxidata (Pers.) Julich Cyathus striatus (Hudson) Persoon JETIRAO06046 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 305 © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) Dacryopinax spathularia (Schweinitz) Martin Geastrum triplex Junghuhn Laccaria laccata (Scopoli)Cooke Lenzites betulina (Linnaeus) Fries Marasmius siccus (Scop.) Fr. Mycena subcaerulea (Peck) Sacc. JETIRAO06046 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 306 © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) Polyporous umbellatus (Persoon) Fries Stereum hirsutum (Willdenow) Persoon Conclusion: The macrofungi play an important ecological role in bio deterioration to maintain the balance of forest ecosystem. Some of them have high medicinal value while some cause wood rotting. The present article reports fourteen species of macrofungi among them Artomyces pyxidata, Dacryopinax spathularia, Laccaria laccata, Lenzites betulina Marasmius siccus, Polyporous umbellatus and Stereum hirsutum were found on tree trunks causing wood rotting and remaining were saprobes. Acknowledgements’: Author greatly thankful to Head, Principal and Management of S. S. V. P. S. L. K. Dr. P. R. Ghogrey Science College, Dhule, Maharashtra for laboratory and library facilities and kind support. JETIRAO06046 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 307 © 2019 JETIR March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) References: Adnaan Farook V., Shabeer Khan S. And Manimohan, P. (2012) A checklist of agaricus (gilled mushrooms) of Kerala State, India. Mycosphere 4: 97-131 Aravindakshan, D. N. And P. Manimohan (2013) A new species of Mycena Sect. 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