WOOD DECAYING FUNGI FROM SOYGAON TEHSIL, DISTRICT AURANGABAD (M.S.) INDIA.

In the present investigation, ninety-three specimens of macro-fungi were collected from different areas of Soygaon Tehsil, District Aurangabad (M.S.) India, from that twenty-seven specimens were identified. Based on morphological and microscopic characteristics which belong to twenty-two genera and twenty-seven species. It was observed that Auricularia mesenterica, Auricularia nigricans, Cellulariella acuta, Coriolopsis brunneoleuca, Daldinia concentrica, Favolus grammocephalus, Favolus roseus, Flavodonf lavus, Earliella scabrosa Hypoxylon haematostroma, Lopharia cinerascens, Naviporus floccosus, Phellinus badius, Schizophyllum commune, Scytinostroma duriusculum, Trametes cingulata, and Truncospora tephropora were most abundantly found while Amylosporus campbellii, Auricularia delicata, Fomitiporia sp.1 Ganoderma mediosinense, Gymnopilus pampeanus, Leucocoprinus cepistipes, Phellinus mori, Pycnoporus sanguineus, Trametes ellipsospora, and Xylaria polymorpha are rarely observed macro-fungi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]