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Four Unrecorded Macrofungi from Mudeungsan National Park in Korea

Four Unrecorded Macrofungi from Mudeungsan National Park in Korea

• Minseo Cho (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea)
• Yeonjae Yoo (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea)
• Sang Hyun Lee (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea)
• Dae Young Kwon (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea)
• Sun Lul Kwon (Division of Wood Engineering, National Institute of Forest Science, Seoul 02455, Korea)
• Jae-Jin Kim (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea)

Macrofungi are major decomposers in terrestrial ecosystems, acting as nutrient cyclers, wood decomposers, and plant symbionts. Despite their beneficial effects, the diversity of macrofungi is not as well understood as that of the flora and fauna. Mudeungsan National Park is one of the biggest National Parks in Southwestern Korea. We conducted surveys in Mudeungsan National Park from 2021 to 2023 to identify indigenous macrofungi. The collected specimens were identified based on morphological characteristics and molecular and phylogenetic analyses using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS), nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA (nLSU), and translation elongation factor 1 gene (tef1) regions. Four species were identified as unrecorded in Korea: Anomoloma luteoalbum, Fibrodontia alba, Russula pallidula, and Schizocorticium parvisporum. In this study, we provide detailed morphological figures and phylogenetic trees to support the four unrecorded species in Mudeungsan National Park.