A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL MUSHROOMS
BETWEEN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA AND NORTHWESTERN INDIA


Research project
Investigators
Narkanda and Dharamshala areas in Himachal Pradesh
 Pauri-Gahrwal area in Uttaranchal
 The Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia

Fungi from the Lesser Himalaya
in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh
 

** WARNING **
page under construction; taxonomic identification of several taxa is still underway.
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

Note: This preliminary list follows a tentative phylogenetic classification
based on the recent work by Hibbett and Thorn, Redhead et al., Moncalvo et al., and others.


BASIDIOMYCETES

HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES

HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES
 

ASCOMYCETES
 
 

HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES

EUAGARICS CLADE
- includes most gilled mushrooms and their non-gilled relatives, including the true puffballs, some coral fungi, and many species with highly modified agaricoid (e.g., secotioid species) or reduced (e.g., cyphelloid) fruit bodies.

Agaricaceae

Amanitaceae Bolbitiaceae Entolomataceae Hydnangiaceae Hygrophoraceae Marasmiaceae


Omphalotaceae


Rhodotaceae (=Xerulaceae =?Physalacriaceae)

Schizophyllaceae


Strophariaceae

Tricholomataceae s.s. "Euagarics Incertae Sedis"


BOLETE CLADE
- includes most fleshy poroid fungi and related gilled or truffle-like forms; this clade is sister group to the euagarics and includes two major evolutionary lines, the suilloids and the boletoids.

Boletaceae


CANTHARELLOID CLADE
- the true chanterelles and their related coralloid or hydnoid fungi characterized by having stichic basidia; also includes several corticioid fungi, and tulasnelloid orchid associates.

Cantharellaceae

Hydnaceae GOMPHOID-PHALLOID CLADE
- includes stinkhorns, hysterangiums (truffle-like relatives of stinkhorns), and coral fungi related to Ramaria, Clavariadelphus, and Gomphus Gomphaceae POLYPOROID CLADE
- includes major portion of "classic" polypore species, some species with lamellae, as well as many corticioid groups.  Includes both brown and white rot fungi.

Polyporaceae

"Polyporoid Incertae Sedis" RUSSULOID CLADE
- morphologically diverse clade that includes several agarics (e.g., Russula, Lactarius) and many polypores, tooth fungi, and coral fungi.

Russulaceae

  • Lactarius camphoratus (Bull. ex Fr.) Fr.
  • Lactarius chrysorheus Fr.
  • Lactarius corrugis Peck
  • Lactarius deceptivus Pk.
  • Lactarius deliciosus
  • Lactarius hygrophoroides
  • Lactarius indigo
  • Lactarius fuliginosus
  • Lactarius piperatus (Scop. ex Fr.) S. F. Gray
  • Lactarius sanguifluus
  • Lactarius scrobiculatus
  • Lactarius subdulcis
  • Lactarius subpurpureus
  • Lactarius vellereus
  • Lactarius volemus (Fr.) Fr.
  • Lactarius yazooensis
  • Lactarius zonarius
  • Russula adusta
  • Russula aeruginea Lindblad ex Fr.
  • Russula albida
  • Russula amoenolens Romagn.
  • Russula brevipes
  • Russula crustosa Pk.
  • Russula cyanoxantha (Schaeff. ex Secr.) Fr.
  • Russula densifolia (Secre.) Gill.
  • Russula dissimulans
  • Russula emetica (Schaeff. ex Fr.) S. F. Gray
  • Russula flavida
  • Russula foetens Fr.
  • Russula fragilis
  • Russula krombholtzii Schaeffer
  • Russula laurocerasi Melzer
  • Russula lutea
  • Russula nigricans
  • Russula ochroleuca
  • Russula ochroleucoides Kauff.
  • Russula rosea Quel.
  • Russula virescens (Schaeff. ex Zantedeschi) Fr.
    • HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES
      ASCOMYCETES


    References:
    - Kumar, A., R.P. Bhatt, and T.N. Lakhanpal.  1990.  The Amanitaceae of India.  Bishen Singh Mehendra Pal Singh Publication, Dehra Dun, 160 pp.
     


     
     
    Research project
    Investigators
    Narkanda and Dharamshala areas in Himachal Pradesh
     Pauri-Gahrwal area in Uttaranchal
     The Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia

    Page created in November 1999.  Last updated in December 2001.  Send comments to Steve Stephenson or Jean-Marc Moncalvo