Acervo etnomicológico en tres localidades del municipio de Acambay, Estado de México

The information concerning to the knowledge and use of the mushrooms from three communities of the Aeambsy'a municipality, State of Mexico, during the rainy seasons of 1984 and 1985 is presented. 139 lo cal common names (40 names in Otomian language) are recorded, corres-ponding with 55 species of maerofungi, of which 50 are Basidiomycetes , 4 Ascomycetes and one is a lichen. The studied mushrooms belong to 5 anthropocentric categories: edible mushrooms (28 species); toxic species (12); medicinal sp ecie s (9); insecticide species (1) and dyeing fungi (1).