Highlights on Unique Orange Pore Cap Mushroom Favolaschia Sp. and Beech Orange Mushroom Cyttaria sp. and Their Biological Activities

Abstract

Fungi exist everywhere around us. However, edible Mushrooms represent promising source for novel compounds with potential uses in different biotechnological fields. Many mushrooms were sources of novel compounds showing biological actions such as antimicrobial, anticancer, antiinflammatory activities. Likewise, mushrooms are macrofungi that exist everywhere around us. They have significant roles in human life as source of nutrition and bioactive compounds. Many mushrooms have been reported as promising biotechnological tools for production of secondary metabolites of various biological activities. Favolaschia sp.; Cyttaria sp. mushrooms are especially interesting due to the rareness of Basidiomycetes. In this review, the ecology, occurrence, of unique Favolaschia sp.; Cyttaria sp. mushrooms were described, and their biological activities.