Cite this article:
Jadhav, Pati, Naik, Quraishi, Nishad, Sharma and Bhushan (2016). Mushrooms and Rare Plants of Surguja and Bastar Districts of Chhattisgarh State. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 29(1), pp.128-129.
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Mushrooms and
Rare Plants of Surguja and Bastar Districts of Chhattisgarh State
SK Jadhav, AK Pati, ML Naik,
Afaque Quraishi, Chumpeshwar K Nishad', Dinesh K Sharma and Shashi Bhushan
National Centre for Natural
Resources, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 492 010, India
Corresponding author email: chumpeshwarkumar@gmail.com
[Received
17 January 2016, accepted 27 January 2016]
Abstract: Chhattisgarh
state is spread from 17'.46' to 24'S'N and 80'.15' to 84'.24' E. The state
experiences hot humid to hot sub humid climate. Sarguja and Bastar districts
are dotted with high plateaus rising to more than 1200mts, valleys, several
smaller hills and plains. In these districts very dense to open forests,
grazing lands, fallow land and cultivated fields are the habitat of mushrooms.
There are mainly three types of forests in the state, namely: sal (Shorea
robusta), teak (Tectona grandis) and mixed. Present study was aimed to document
i) plants which have been found to be very rare within the area of the state;
however and i) mushrooms growing in the forests of these districts. The rare
plants are rare in the districts, surveyed but, may or may not be rare and/or
endangered at the national level. Some of the rare plants recorded during the
present study are: Sterculia urens (Kullu). Streptocaulon sylvestre, Psoralea
corylifolia (Bawchi). Cordia mcleodii (Dahiman), Puereria tuberosa (Patal
Kumhra) etc. Some of these plants definitely are of medicinal value like for
ailments like: Cardiac diseases, Rheumatoid arthritis ete. Degradation of the
forests, invasion by the alien, invasive plants and overexploitation of such
medicinal plants are threatening the survival of already rare medicinal plants,
in the state. Mushrooms, recorded from the forests of the districts, surveyed
presently are mycorrhizal, parasitic, termitomyses, entemofagus and
saprophytes. Many of the wild species of mushrooms are edible some of the
non-edible forms are highly toxic while some of the non-edible forms have
medicinal values. Most important mycorrhizal mushroom is Aestreus
hygrometricus, a highly priced mycorrhizal mushroom associated with the most
important tree species of the state, the sal (Shorea robusta). The present
study has been made to document the edible and non-edible mushrooms of the
Surguja and Bastar districts of the state, as far as possible.
Keywords: Forest, Rare
Plants, Mushrooms, Medicinal uses