Ectomycorrhizal basidiomata fruiting in lowland rain forests of Peninsular Malaysia

摘要

The lowland rain forests of Peninsular Malaysia are dominated by ectomycorrhizal Dipterocarpaceae, one of the most important families of timber trees in Southeast Asia. The main groups of ectomycorrhizal fungi involved in symbiotic associations withdipterocarps are members of the Amanitales, Boletales, Cantharellales, Russulales and several hypogeous taxa, which are all members of the Basidiomycota. Prof. E.J.H. Corner first highlighted the seasonal fruiting of agaric fungi in the peninsula but hedid not present any climatic data to demonstrate this correlation. This paper examines the patterns of putative ectomycorrhizal basidiomata fruiting in a lowland rain forest and in a planted forest community in Peninsular Malaysia, and their relationship with local weather conditions from data collected over a 6-year period in the rain forest and 7 years in the planted forest.