Authors : A. A. FULZELE
Page Nos : 17-30
Description :
Tropical forests are the cradle of biodiversity and India is one of the mega diversity centers of
the world, because of its tropical forests. Nagpur district is surrounded by tropical dry
deciduous forest. Fungal diversity is astonishing in the forest areas of Nagpur district.
Basidiomycota is the most interesting division of fungal kingdom, known for its food value,
medicinal importance and beautiful forms and diversity. Though dominance of Basidiomycetes
fungi is in subtropical and temperate region, but tropical areas like, in this part of India also
shows good representation of this class of fungi which covers almost all orders of this class.
Some of the morphologically interesting Basidiomycetes fungi identified from Nagpur district of
India are explain here, for example-, Calocera sp., Clavaria sp., Cyathus striatus, Phallus
indusiata, Geastrum spp., Hygrocybe coccineocrenata, Lycoperdon sp., Sparassis crispa,
Tolustoma brumale, Tremella mesenterica, Geastrum fimbriatum, Hydnellum peckii, Lycoperdon
sp; Mutinus caninus, Pulcherricium caeruleum, etc.
