About 164 species and 65 genera under 14 families of wood-rotting fungi are recorded from Andaman Islands. Out of these about 28 species belonging to the genera Hymenochaete (12 species), Phellinus (15 species) and Inonotus (one species) of the family Hymenochaetaceae are recorded for the first time from India. A list of all the species with their updated nomenclaturealso full citation, distribution both in India and world are provided. A synoptic key is provided for the easy identification of these species in the field. All theSpecimen cited in the text have been deposited in the Cryptogamic section Herbarium of Botanical Survey of India (NRC) Dehradun (BSD).
Keywords
Diversity, New Records, Wood-Rotting, Aphyllophorales, Basidiomycetes, Andaman Islands.
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