1Molecular and Applied Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal-700019, India
2West Bengal Biodiversity Board, Prani Sampad Bhawan, 5th floor LB-2, Sector-III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700 106, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: krish_paper@yahoo.com
Online published on 16 May, 2018.
Ongoing studies have suggested that there is enormous macrofungal diversity in West Bengal due to its unique geo-climatic setting. The present paper reports five macrofungi viz. Cortinarius iodes, Xerula radicata, Phylloporus bellus, Crepidotus mollis and Macrocybe gigantea collected from different geographical regions of West Bengal, India and are reported herein with detailed macro-morphological characters.
Macrofungi, Morphology, Taxonomy, West Bengal, India