Plant Diversity ›› 1981, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (03): 1-3.

• Articles •    

NOTES 0N THE CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTlON OF TERMIT0MYCES FR0M YUNNAN

Zang Mu   

  1. Kunmming Institute of Botany,Academia sinica
  • Online:1981-06-25 Published:1981-06-25

Abstract: It is known that regarding the mushroom, Termitomyces cultivated by termites, there are two species of this genus growing on termites combs in subtropical and tropical regions from China. The termite-growing agaric, Termitomyces albuminosus (Berk.) Heim is distributed widely in different localities from southwards of Yangtze River, especially in Yunnan province. Termitomyces robustus (Beeli) Heim is a typic tropical species, which have recorded from Congo, Kenya and Nigeria of Af- rica by Heim (1951) .                         

Key words: classification, distribution, Yunnan