Valoración de hongos basidiomycetes en el Ecuador: Check-list preliminar y su distribución geográfica

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Abstract: Ecuador, a country considered mega-diverse, reports great diversity of plants and animals in databases and chek-list. However, fungi or mycobiota from Ecuador has been little studied and reported in lists of validated species. For this reason, it has begun with the compilation of bibliographic information of basidiomycetes fungi throughout the country with georeferencing and information that allows this group of organisms to be valued for future research. The chek- list is based on bibliography and is presented for the first time in Ecuador, containing 46 publications where the results have enabled a record of 305 species of basidiomycetes fungi, having among these, species defined with genus and species, and other indefinite ones that only report gender. In addition to this, the location of the studies in the 24 provinces was geo- referenced, revealing that the provinces of Galapagos, Tungurahua and Napo are the ones that represent the greatest number of specimens 94, 63, and 53, respectively.