Manuscript Title:

A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS AND STATUS OF BOLETALES FROM PAKISTAN

Author:

FARWA BATOOL, SAMINA SARWAR

DOI Number:

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11174441

Published : 2024-05-10

About the author(s)

1. FARWA BATOOL - Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.
2. SAMINA SARWAR - Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore Pakistan.

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Abstract

Study on taxonomy and diversity of Boletes mushrooms from Pakistan is neglected irrespective of their great diversity in coniferous forests of Himalayan range of Pakistan. Boletes are economically important due to their ectomycorrhizal status, edibility and medicinal values. There is need to enlist data, explore more diversity as well as to conserve these fungi. This study enlist the Boletes fungi data from Pakistan which showed total eighty-eight species that have been reported from Pakistan belonging to thirty-nine genera and fourteen families of order Boletales. Most dominant family is Boletaceae with twenty-one reported genera while dominant genus is Suillus belongs to Suillaceae family with fifteen species. Thirteen species have been reported that were first time described from Pakistan as new to Science species. Species described previously by old names have been replaced here by current names using Index Fungorum and their old names have also been mentioned as synonyms for clarity. All taxa are enlisted here alphabetically. First checklist of this group of fungi was published in 2013 but it was preliminary and much work on order Boletales was done after this. Before 2011, all species of this group reported from Pakistan has many confusions because these were identified only by morphological analysis. For some taxa identification method is still unknown because it was not mentioned in literature and for some there were even no pictures as proof. After 2011, there was progress towards molecular analysis of boletes fungi. Doubtful things are mentioned in the results. This is a second and more comprehensive report of this group of fungi describing their habit, habitat, host tree, publication status, economic importance, identification method etc. It has been compiled following an extensive survey of literature, references, GenBank data, MycoBank data, Index Fungorum and consultation with different specialists. Bibliography of reported species from Pakistan has also been enlisted.


Keywords

Boletales, Himalaya, GenBank, Hymenium, Taxonomy, Molecular Phylogeny.