Note of Five Unrecorded Mushrooms Including Three Rare Species on Mount Juwang in Korea

Sun Lul Kwon; Seokyoon Jang; Changmu Kim; Young Woon Lim; Jae-Jin Kim

doi:10.1080/12298093.2020.1759348

Note of Five Unrecorded Mushrooms Including Three Rare Species on Mount Juwang in Korea

Mycobiology. 2020 May 13;48(3):157-168. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2020.1759348. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Sun Lul Kwon¹, Seokyoon Jang¹, Changmu Kim², Young Woon Lim³, Jae-Jin Kim¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
² Microorganism Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Korea.
³ School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

The Mount Juwang was designated as a national park in 1976 because of its unique bedrock geology. Although Juwang National Park has maintained its natural ecosystem well, few macrofungal surveys have been carried out. As a part of a project supported by the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) for the discovery of indigenous fungal species, we surveyed the mushrooms in Juwang National Park from 2018 to 2019. The macrofungi were identified based on morphological and molecular analyses. Among these fungi, five specimens were identified as species previously unrecorded in Korea: Calocybe decolorata, Crepidotus brunnescens, Mycena pearsoniana, Psathyrella phegophila, and P. sulcatotuberculosa. Three of these species are known to be rare in the world: Crepidotus brunnescens, P. phegophila, and P. sulcatotuberculosa. In this study, we provide detailed morphological descriptions of the five unrecorded species from Mt. Juwang in Korea.

Keywords: Basidiomycota; ITS; morphology; phylogeny; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the project on survey and excavation of Korean indigenous species of National Institute of Biological Resources [NIBR201902113] under the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea. And this study was also supported by a Korea University Grant.