New species of edible mushroom from India

Structural characterization and study of immunoenhancing and antioxidant property of a novel polysaccharide isolated from the aqueous extract of a somatic hybrid mushroom of Pleurotus florida and Calocybe indica variety APK2

“…A water-soluble branched glucan [12] from aqueous extract and other important glucans [13] from alkaline extract of P. florida cv., Assam florida were also reported. Calocybe indica [14], commonly known as the milky mushroom, was commercialized as a new variety C. indica, var. APK2 [15] from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India and can be cultivated throughout the summer season.…”

<p><strong>Two new species of <em>Calocybe</em> (Lyophyllaceae) from northeast China</strong></p>

“…The pileus of C. indica is white or whitish but dirty white with age (Purkayastha & Chandra 1974), whereas, the pileus of C. badiofloccosa is light ocher yellow and in this feature it is similar to C. carnea, C. coniceps, C. gambosa, and C. heterospora, but it never becomes pale violet or whitish to dirty white. Calocybe badiofloccosa has an equal stipe, but the stipes of C. carnea and C. heterospora are attenuated towards the base (Singer 1962b) and the stipe of C. indica is subbulbous at the base (Purkayastha & Chandra 1974). Additionally, C. heterospora differs from C. badiofloccosa in having white extended rhizomorphs (Singer 1962b).…”

“…Remarks:-Calocybe badiofloccosa has big basidiospores. Within the genus, C. africana Singer (1978: 268), C. carnea, C. coniceps Singer (1978, C. gambosa, C. heterospora Singer (1962: 46) and C. indica also have large basidiospores (Singer 1978;Singer 1962b;Purkayastha & Chandra 1974). Among the species mentioned above, only C. coniceps has cystidia; cystidia are absent in C. badiofloccosa and other species.…”

Biodiversity Studies on Macro Fungi with Special Reference to Order Agaricales: Indian Scenario

“…Many mycologists have given significant contributions in study of macro fungal diversity in India; some of these mycologists are [31,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41] worked on mushroom biodiversity especially for agarics from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats. Kaur A & Kumar TKA [42,43] reported 92 species of genus Lepiota [44][45][46] have very important contributions in the study of mushroom diversity.…”