In: Sydowia 72, (2020): 221-229; ISSN 0082-0598, DOI 10.12905/0380.sydowia72-2020-0221, Published online on August 4, 2020

The role of gymnopoid fungi (Agaricales) in the environment, natural communities and medicine: a review

Victor Rafael Matos Coimbra1, Tatiana Baptista Gibertoni1 & Felipe Wartchow2,*
1 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Micologia/CB, Avenida da Engenharia s/n, CEP: 50740-600, Recife,
PE, Brazil. ORCID: 0000-0002-8490-1521
1 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Micologia/CB, Avenida da Engenharia s/n, CEP: 50740-600, Recife,
PE, Brazil. ORCID: 0000-0003-4499-7650
2 Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia/CCEN, CEP: 58051-900, João Pessoa-PB, Brazil.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4930-565X
* e-mail: fwartchow@yahoo.com.br

Coimbra V.R.M., Gibertoni T.B. & Wartchow F. (2020) Role of gymnopoid fungi (Agaricales) in the environment, natural communities
and medicine: a review. – Sydowia 72: 221–229.

A deep and multidisciplinary literature-based review on the gymnopoid fungi is presented and its ecological roles, ethnomycological
aspects of edible and medicinal species, and advances on prospection of bioactive compounds are highlighted.

Keywords: antibiotics, Basidiomycota, edible mushrooms, medicinal mushrooms, Omphalotaceae.