A checklist of Wild Mushrooms of the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region, Ghana.

The Atewa Range Forest Reserve is a biodiversity hotspot in the Abuakwa South Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The forest is home to a wide range of rare and threatened forest species not limited to mammals, plants, frogs, birds, reptiles and insects of global conservation concern (Lindsell et. al.,2019). There is a wealth of other species that are either not known or are less studied in the Atewa forest, one of such species are wild mushrooms. The site is significant for the studies of mushrooms because although it is recognized as a Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA), it is under threat by illegal logging, farm encroachment, poaching, illegal mining among others. It has been ear-marked by the government as a potential bauxite mining site. These activities will impact on biodiversity such as mushrooms which are understudied but contribute to both human nutrition, provide health remedies and a source of income generation. This dataset is a representation of wild mushrooms collected in 2015 as part of a research on mushroom diversity in Ghana. The dataset contains a total number of 23 mushroom samples comprising identification of 10 different species, 11 genera and 1 classified to order level.

阿特瓦山脉森林保护区（Atewa Range Forest Reserve）是加纳东部地区阿布阿夸南县的生物多样性热点区域。该森林栖息着多种珍稀濒危森林物种，涵盖全球受保护关注的哺乳类、植物、蛙类、鸟类、爬行类及昆虫类等（Lindsell等，2019）。阿特瓦森林中还存在大量未被记录或研究不足的其他物种，野生蘑菇便是其中之一。该区域对于蘑菇研究具有重要价值，尽管它已被认定为全球重要生物多样性区域（Globally Significant Biodiversity Area, GSBA），但仍面临非法砍伐、农业侵占、偷猎及非法采矿等多种威胁。加纳政府已将该区域列为潜在的铝土矿开采场址。上述活动将对蘑菇这类研究不足的生物多样性物种造成影响，而野生蘑菇不仅可为人类提供营养与药用价值，同时也是重要的收入来源。本数据集为2015年为开展加纳蘑菇多样性研究而采集的野生蘑菇样本集合，共计收录23份蘑菇样本，其中10份被鉴定至物种层级、11份鉴定至属层级，剩余1份仅鉴定至目层级。