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Abstract
Mushrooms are promising sources of physiologically functional food and as materials for the development of medicines, pharmaceutical products such as new drugs proteins-bound polysaccharides, terpenoids,) dietary supplements and healthy beverages, cosmetic products. Numerous articles and monographs contain detailed information on the physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicinal value of mushrooms (Stamets, 1993; Hobbs, 1996;Chang, 1999; Mizuno et al., 1999). However, the mushroom industry is growing and new techniques are being devised to increase the number of cultivated species. Family ( Coprinaceace Homobasidomycetyes ) comprises some 200 species, many of which are difficult to distinguish. Mushrooms of this group of fungi are traditionally called inky caps because in many of the species, the gills and often the cap digest themselves at maturity, turning into an inky black fluid that drips onto the ground (Arora, 1986 The autolysis of the cap and the inaequihymeniiferous hymenial development were the main criteria to incorporate a species into the genus (Buller, 1909; Orton and Watling, 1979). The new clade Coprinus with Coprinus comatus (Shaggy Mane) as type species are now assigned to the family Agaricaceae, the other three to the new family Psathyrellaceae (Redhead et al., 2001).