Some mycological observations on Tricholomatacae Roze members

Fungi are key functional components of forest ecosystems and have received less attention than animals and plants instead of highly diverse in nature. The present work is an outcome of extensive fungal forays conducted in different localities of North Himalayas during monsoon season and many collections have been made, examined on the basis of macroscopic and microscopic characters. The diagnostic characters of family Tricholomataceae including minute to robust carpophores, often with or without hygrophanous surface, hymenophore lamellae varies from poroid, meruloid and free to decurrent, gelatinized context, regular trama and variable pileal cutis, varies from hymeniodermic, trichodermial or undifferentiated. Based on various taxonomic traits of the family Tricholomatacae, the documented species include Lepista flaccida, Armillaria puiggarii, Melanoleuca stridula, Collybia sp., Leucopaxillus spp. and Tricholoma auranticum. All of these taxa are new records for India.