A checklist of polypores of Kerala state, India
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Department of Natural Resource Management, College of forestry, Kerala Agricultural University, Kerala, India
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Department of Botany, Sree Krishna College, Guruvayoor, Thrissur, Kerala
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Received:
10 May 2018
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09 July 2018
Published online:
17 July 2018
Studies in Fungi
3(1): 202−226(2018) |
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Abstract
A literature-based checklist of polypores reported from Kerala State, India is deduced. Altogether 148 species of polypores under 8 families belonging to 68 genera are recorded. The checklist is prepared after reviewing all the available literature and most of them have been published during the last two decades. The geographical distribution of polypores is presented districts wise, including all the 14 districts of Kerala state. The family Polyporaceae has the highest number of species (80), followed by Hymenochaetaceae (37), Fomitopsidaceae (9), Meripilaceae (7), Ganodermataceae (7), Meruliaceae (5), Schizoporaceae (2) and Phanerochaetaceae with a single species. The genus Trametes had the highest representation with 16 species followed by Lentinus and Phellinus with 13 species each. There is no comprehensive studies have been undertaken on the diversity, distribution and functional attributes of polypore fungi in Kerala parts of Western Ghats, which undoubtedly hosting the highest mycodiversity This list is inconclusive and covers only a part of the actual diversity of polypores in Kerala as most of the forest areas are unexplored for the polypore diversity documentation.
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CK Adarsh, K Vidyasagran, PN Ganesh. 2018. A checklist of polypores of Kerala state, India. Studies in Fungi 3(1):202−226 doi: 10.5943/sif/3/1/21
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CK Adarsh, K Vidyasagran, PN Ganesh. 2018. A checklist of polypores of Kerala state, India. Studies in Fungi 3(1):202−226 doi: 10.5943/sif/3/1/21
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