Checklist of agaricoid fungi from Paraguay

Abstract

The aim of this work is to provide a complete literature-basedchecklist of the agaricoid fungi from Paraguay. For this, an extensive review ofthe literature and online databases was made. We list 125 species belonging to theagaricoid fungi distributed among 20 families. Agaricaceae, Tricholomataceae,Psathyrellaceae, and Marasmiaceae are the most species-abundant families.Regarding species distribution, the Capital department has the highest numberof reported species, and other biogeographical regions such as Chaco, Cerrado,and Pantanal are practically unexplored.