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Num 34 August 2012. POLIBOTANICA 34:137-155 |
ISSN 1405-2768 |
XYLOPHAGOUS MACROFUNGI OF THE DECIDUOUS TROPICAL FOREST IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF COCULA, GUERRERO, MEXICO
Esmeralda Salinas-Salgado1, Ricardo Valenzuela2, Tania Raymundo2, Moisés Cipriano-Salazar3, Blas Cruz-Lagunas3 y Elías Hernández-Castro3
1Posgrado en Sistemas de Producción Agropecuaria, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero
2Laboratorio de Micología, Departamento de Botánica, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas-IPN, Plan de Ayala y Carpio sn. Col. Santo Tomás, México, DF, CP11340, México.
3Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Maestría en Sistemas de Producción Agropecuaria campus Tuxpan: Km 2.5 Carretera Iguala-Tuxpan, Iguala, Gro. Correo electrónico: rvalenzg@ipn.mx
Abstract
In this paper, the results about xylophagous macrofungi collected in the tropical deciduous forest from municipality of Cocula, Guerrero State in 2009 and 2010 are presented. In this study, 27 explorations were performed, collecting 544 specimens and 75 species identified, of which 12 correspond to the ascomycetes and 63 to the basidiomycetes; and 58 species are reported for the first time to Guerrero State and three are new records for Mexico: Hypoxylon fuscopurpureum, Nemania diffusa and Dendrocorticium polygonioides
Key words: Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, wood decay fungi, tropical caducifolious forest.