Affiliation:
1. Botany Department, Kohima Science College Jotsoma Kohima, Nagaland, India.
Abstract
Mushrooms are the fructication of macrofungi which are of great nutritional and economic importance for the local people because of their great
nutritional content, taste, avor etc. and also the collection and selling of wild edible mushroom by the local people as small time business in the
local market bring about signicant improvement of their economy. A survey was conducted to ascertain the diversity of wild edible macrofungi in
Nagaland during 2014-2016. A total of 83 edible mushrooms were found of which 48 belonged to gilled fungi, 19 belonged to pore and tooth fungi,
4 were puffballs and 6 belonged to jelly fungi and 6 were club and coral fungi respectively
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