The species from the genus Ganoderma are known to be extremely important macrofungi in fundamental biological, medicinal and socioeconomic aspects. The present communication describes the brief morphological description, macro- and microscopic details and chemical constituents of the representatives of five species of Ganoderma mushroom collected from different sites in Vietnamese National Parks. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2016) 40: 269-286 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Article Vietnamese Ganoderma: growth, peculiarities, and low-molecular composition compared to European and Siberian strains 1,* 2 2 3 1 Olga TSIVILEVA , Thao NGUYEN , Long VU , Nikolay YURASOV , Marina CHERNYSHOVA , 4 5 5 1 Alexander PETROV , Viktor GALUSHKA , Alexei MARKIN , Oleg KOFTIN 1 Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBPPM RAS), Saratov, Russia 2 Southern Institute of Ecology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 3 Institute of Chemistry, . Chernyshevskii Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia 4 Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Soil Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia 5 Nanotechnology Department, Educational Research Institute of Nanostructures and Biosystems, . Chernyshevskii Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: The species from the genus Ganoderma are known to be extremely important macrofungi in fundamental biological, medicinal, and socioeconomic aspects. The present communication describes the brief morphological description, macro- and microscopic details, and chemical constituents of the representatives of five species of Ganoderma mushroom collected from different sites in Vietnamese National Parks. These species were Ganoderma colossus, G. neojaponicum, G. cattienensis, G. lucidum, and G. applanatum. Three additional herbarium strains of Ganoderma from European and Siberian regions have been implemented in the present framework for the purposes of comparison. Cultural characterization on solid and liquid fermentation, and scanning electron microscopy of morphology along with chemical analysis served as the supporting identification and comparison .
