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| Title: | Wild edible fungal resources used by ethnic tribes of Nagaland, India |
| Authors: | Tanti, Bhaben
Lisha, Gurung
Chandra, Sarma Gajen |
| Keywords: | Ethno-mycology
Mushroom
Ethnic tribes of Nagaland
Wild edible fungi |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A01H 15/00, C12N 1/14, Ao1G 1/04 |
| Abstract: | The paper documents the knowledge about the wild edible fungal flora of
Kohima district of Nagaland, India
used by the indigenous tribes through structured questionnaires in consultations.
The study revealed that more than 12 ethnic groups of Nagaland were found to be
mycophilic and to have extensive traditional mycological knowledge. A total of
13 species of fleshy fungi under 9 genera and 6 families were identified.
Further, mushroom selling was observed in Kohima town of Nagaland where women represented 83% of
sellers, while indigenous people comprised 67.28%. The sale of some wild edible
mushrooms, the large amounts of commercialization, the complicated intermediary
process, as well as the insertion of mushrooms into different informal economic
practices were all evidence of an existent mycophily in a sector of the
population of this region. The study highlights the potentials of the
ethno-mycological research and the need for documentation of wild edible fungal
flora of Nagaland |
| Page(s): | 512-515 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(3) [July 2011]
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