Publications relating to the ectomycorrhizal fungi
of northwestern India

Bhatt, R. P., R. E. Tulloss, K. C. Semwal, V. K. Bhatt, J.-M. Moncalvo and S. L. Stephenson. 2003. The Amanitaceae of India. A critically annotated checklist. Mycotaxon 88:249-270.

Das, K., S. L. Miller and J. R. Sharma. 2006. Russula in Himalaya 2: Four new taxa. Mycotaxon 95:205-215.

Das, K., S. L. Miller, J. R. Sharma, P. Sharma and R. P. Bhatt. 2005. Russula in Himalaya I: A new species of subgenus Amoenula. Mycotaxon 94:85-88.

Kumar, A., R. P. Bhatt and T. N. Lakhanpal.  1990.  The Amanitaceae of India.  Bishen Singh Mehendra Pal Singh Publication, Dehra Dun, 160 pp.

Kumar, A., T. N. Lakhanpal and S. L. Stephenson. 1990. Ecological studies of some macrofungi in the northwestern Himalayas. Nova Hedwigia 50:535-547.

Kumar, A., R. Singer, T. N. Lakhanpal and S. L. Stephenson. 1991. A new species of Marasmius from northwestern India. Nova Hedwigia 52:227-230.

Moncalvo J-M, T. J. Baroni, R. P. Bhatt and S. L. Stephenson. 2004. Rhodocybe paurii, a new species from the Indian Himalaya. Mycologia 96:859-865.

Pande, V., U. T. Palni and S. P. Singh. 2004. Species diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with temperate forest of western Himalaya: a preliminary assessment. Current Science 86:1619-1623.

Pegler, D. N. and T. W. K. Young. 1989. Rhodactina himalayensis gen. et sp. nov. (Gautieriaceae) from India. Opera Botanica 100:201-206.

Thind, K.S., I. P. S. Thind and B. M. Sharma. 1982. The Gasteromycetes of the Himalayas - IX. Two new hypogeous species. Indian Phytopath. 35:613-615.

Tilak, S. T. and B. G. Rokde.  1963. A new species of Elaphomyces from India. Mycopath. and Mycol. Appl. 22:339-340.

Tulloss, R. 2005. Amanita-distribution in the Americas with comparison to eastern and southern Asia and notes on spore character variation with latitude and ecology. Mycotaxon 93: 189-231. (download pdf)

Zhang, B. C. and D. W. Minter. 1988. Tuber himalayense sp. nov. with notes on Himalayan truffles. Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 91:593-597.
FUTURE RESEARCH

Over the next few years, we hope to extend this earlier study to selected groups of ectomycorrhizal fungi, including an ecological assemblage (the hypogeous fungi) for which there are essentially no data. In addition to the (1) hypogeous fungi, emphasis will be placed on members of the (2) family Russulaceae and those representatives of (3) other groups of ectomycorrhizal macrofungi that are common and conspicuous in the forests of northwestern India. The latter would include species in such genera as Boletus, Cantharellus, Cortinarius, Laccaria, Leccinum and Suillus. Many of the species involved are currently known by names that were applied originally to morphologically similar species in Europe and/or North America, which may or may not represent the same taxonomic entity.