Pune Alive : Mushroom Diversity 2000
Citation
Lamrood P, Vaidya J, Jadhav Kulkarni N, Barve V (2023). Pune Alive : Mushroom Diversity 2000. Version 1.2. Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/fawghr accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-01.Description
Kingdom Fungi constitutes amongst the most diverse group of organisms, that also exhibit myriad enigmatic shapes, caps and parasols, balls and crumples sheets, layered plats and overlapping shingles, muted and gaudy. These appear suddenly amongst the fallen leaves, on trees or encrusting dead wood, just after the first shower of the monsoon. Despite their popularity, not many people know mushrooms as being fruiting, rather spore producing bodies of some fungi. Fungi are crucial in the terrestrial ecosystem, as dominant decomposers and have applications in various industries. This dataset is from the “Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity’ in which documented occurrence records of 64 genera belonging to 31 families of fungi from Pune, Maharashtra, India.Sampling Description
Study Extent
Fungi samples were collected from the study areas from Pune city, Maharashtra during monsoon in 1999 and 2000.Sampling
Fungi samples were collected with the help of scalpel from the soil or the substrate. General habit and habitat, color, smell (if any), host plant, surrounding vegetation etc. were noted down in the field. The mushrooms were photographed prior to picking and then were kept in a paper bag carefully with a label showing the collection number, locality and date on the bag. Few of the specimens were oven dried at 60°C temperature. The puffballs were also dried and stinkhorns were wet preserved in 2-5% formalin solution.Method steps
- Fungi samples were collected from study areas in Pune during monsoon in 1999-2000. Samples were photographed prior to picking and kept in a paper bag with a label mentioning collection number, locality and date of collection. Few specimens were dried in the oven at 60°C temperature. Few were wet preserved in 2-5% formalin solution. Thin sections of fresh specimens were observed under the microscope after staining with Phloxin and cotton blue stain and mounting in the lactophenol. The polypore sections were first treated with 5% KOH solution and then mounted in lactophenol on a clean glass slide with a cover glass after intensive teasing and staining with cotton blue. As for puffballs, the fruiting body was opened to view the number of peridium layers, presence or absence of mucilage sheath and color of the gliba. Thin sections of gliba, peridium were mounted in lactophenol after staining the section in cotton blue. Various structures seen in the section were noted down systematically and were used along with the spore print for identification, using the standard keys
Taxonomic Coverages
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Fungicommon name: Mushroom rank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
Pune city, Maharashtra, India
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Prasad Lamroodoriginator
position: Associate Professor
Ahmednagar College
Station Road
Ahmednagar
414001
Maharashtra
IN
Telephone: 9823239412
email: prasadlamrood@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.aca.edu.in/Departments/DepartmentList.aspx?DeptID=68
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Jitendra Vaidya
originator
position: Professor
University of Pune
Pune
411007
Maharashtra
IN
Nalini Jadhav Kulkarni
metadata author
position: Project Intern
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
IN
email: nalini.jadhav3444@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-2211
Vijay Barve
metadata author
position: Research associate
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
IN
email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
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Prasad Lamrood
administrative point of contact
position: Associate Professor
Ahmednagar College
Station Road
Ahmednagar
414001
Maharashtra
IN
Telephone: 9823239412
email: prasadlamrood@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.aca.edu.in/Departments/DepartmentList.aspx?DeptID=68
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9431-7716
Vijay Barve
administrative point of contact
position: Research Associate
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
IN
email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567