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ALTHOUGH the ethnomycology of the native peoples of New Guinea is poorly documented it is known that throughout the island various fungi are gathered for food1 and that certain fungi, principally mushrooms of the genus Boletus, play an important part in the ‘mushroom madness’ characteristic of the Kuma people of the New Guinea Highlands2. We report here that sclerotia of Lentinus tuberregium are made into club-heads by the Gogodala people who live mostly along the swampy middle reaches of the Aramia River in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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PRICE, T., BALDWIN, J. & SIMPSON, J. Fungal club-heads in Papua New Guinea. Nature 273, 374–375 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/273374a0
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