Journal of Fungi Article Exploring the Species Diversity of Edible Mushrooms in Yunnan, Southwestern China, by DNA Barcoding Ying Zhang 1 , Meizi Mo 1,2, Liu Yang 1,2, Fei Mi 1 , Yang Cao 1, Chunli Liu 1, Xiaozhao Tang 1, Pengfei Wang 1 and Jianping Xu 1,3,* 1 State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, and Key Laboratory for Southwest Microbial Diversity of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650032, China;
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[email protected] Abstract: Yunnan Province, China, is famous for its abundant wild edible mushroom diversity and a rich source of the world’s wild mushroom trade markets. However, much remains unknown about the diversity of edible mushrooms, including the number of wild edible mushroom species and their distributions. In this study, we collected and analyzed 3585 mushroom samples from wild mushroom markets in 35 counties across Yunnan Province from 2010 to 2019. Among these samples, we successfully obtained the DNA barcode sequences from 2198 samples. Sequence comparisons revealed that these 2198 samples likely belonged to 159 known species in 56 different genera, 31 families, 11 orders, 2 classes, and 2 phyla. Significantly, 51.13% of these samples had sequence similarities to known species at lower than 97%, likely representing new taxa.