Poll question: How many types of mushroom r there worldwide?
Options:
1000+
1L
Millions
Ans: There r around 15000-20000 types of mushroom worldwide. From these many types, there r millions of individual botanically classified species.
So type is general categorisation of mushroom in layman words like button type, cap type, medicinal type, poisonous type, etc
Whereas categorisation by species is fully scientific and each species under the button type will have a specific botanical name and so on and so forth.
Many of the species have been identified, documented scientifically and many yet to be