ABSTRACT

Tripura is well known for its rich vegetation, especially wild edible plants and underutilized vegetables for the local utilization. Different climatic and physiographic conditions favour the abundance of biodiversity making the forest rich in productivity which is hallowed with high rainfall. Wild Mushrooms are very vital source of protein rich nourishment for the people of ethnic groups of Tripura. The ethnic communities use to collect good quantity of wild mushrooms are mainly the species of Lentinus edodes, Lentinus squarrosulus, Pleurotus citrinopileatus, Pleurotus pulmonarius, Tricholoma giganteum, Macrolepiota procera, Termitomyces eurhizus, Termitomyces heimii etc. These mushrooms are wildly available and collected from the adjacent forest areas during monsoon season and sold in the nearby village markets of Tripura in large quantities. The ethnic people of this area revealed an extensive expertise on the identification of non poisonous edible mushrooms and the places where these diverse mushroom species grow naturally, especially those which were reported to be sold regularly. This study revealed the distribution, biodiversity and mode of utilization of wildly available edible mushrooms of this state. The current study is an attempt to identify and document of wildly available edible mushrooms and continual utilization of the lesser known wild edible species of Tripura. This study comprises monograph of 35 important and commonly consumed wild edible species of mushrooms from forest areas of Tripura, India. Keywords: Wild mushroom, Biodiversity, Edible, Ethnic people, Tripura
Publication date: 01/10/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.10.5672