Inventario preliminar de la micobiota en el Área Natural Protegida Piedras Bola, Jalisco, México

Abstract

The Piedras Bola Natural Protected Area (ANPPB) is located to the southwest of the municipality of Ahualulco del Mercado andnorth of Ameca in the state of Jalisco. It is part of a mountain system known as Sierra del Águila. The vegetation of this area ismade up mainly of oak forest, oak-pine forest, forest tropical deciduous, and secondary vegetation. Collections of fungal specimenswere obtained during the rainy season in the months of June to October between 2011 and 2018, carrying out 17 explorations. Thematerial is deposited in the fungal collection of the herbarium IBUG. The macro and micromorphological study was carried outwith conventional mycological techniques and the use of specialized bibliography to identify of the species. A total of 692specimens were collected, and 349 of them were identified as species which corresponds to 130 determinate taxa, 116Basidiomycota, and 14 Ascomycota. The type of vegetation with the greatest richness of fungi was the oak forest (91), while thetropical deciduous forest had the lowest number of taxa (12). This work constitutes the first study of mycobiota in the Piedras BolaNatural Protected Area (ANPPB), which facilitates the recognition of the diversity of fungal species observed.