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Polypores that Decay Trees of Indian Botanic Garden


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1 Botanical Surety of India, Howrah, India
 

Fifty two species of wood-rotting polyporoid hymenomycetes were found associated with decay of trees of Indian Botanic Garden. Most of them caused white rots. Oxyporus latemarginata (Dur. & Mont.) Donk, Phellinus glaucescems (Petch )Ryv. and Rigidoporus vitreus (Fr.) Donk have not been reported earlier from India. Coriolopsis luzonensis (Murr.) Sharma is a new combination proposed. Casuarina equisetifolia Forst. is the most frequent host.
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J. R. Sharma
Botanical Surety of India, Howrah, India
P. K. Ghosh
Botanical Surety of India, Howrah, India

Abstract


Fifty two species of wood-rotting polyporoid hymenomycetes were found associated with decay of trees of Indian Botanic Garden. Most of them caused white rots. Oxyporus latemarginata (Dur. & Mont.) Donk, Phellinus glaucescems (Petch )Ryv. and Rigidoporus vitreus (Fr.) Donk have not been reported earlier from India. Coriolopsis luzonensis (Murr.) Sharma is a new combination proposed. Casuarina equisetifolia Forst. is the most frequent host.