Table 3 Compar ison of fatty acid compositions of two varieties of Genoderma lucidum

Fatty acids (% weight)	Type of fruiting body
	Round	Nokgak
	Saturated fatty acids
Myristic (C14:0)	1.61±0.081)^b2)	3.35±0.17^a
Palmitic (C16:0)	13.50±0.68^a	9.44±0.47^b
Behenic (C22:0)	0.35±0.02^a	0.36±0.02^a
Tricosylic (C23:0)	0.37±0.02^b	0.70±0.04^a
Lignoceric (C24:0)	0.54±0.03^a	0.43±0.02^a
Total	16.37±0.98^a	14.28±1.02^b
Unsaturated fatty acids
cis-Vaccenic (C18:1n7)	2.95±0.15^b	3.55±0.18^a
Oleic (C18:1n9)	32.91±1.65^a	6.21±0.31^b
Linoleic (C18:2n6)	47.56±2.38^b	75.68±3.78^a
α-Linolenic (C18:3n3)	0.21±0.01^a	0.28±0.01^a
Total	83.63±5.22^b	85.72±5.16^a

All values are presented as the mean±SD of triplicate determination.
All values within a column with different superscript letters are significantly different from each other at p<0.05 by Duncan’s multiple range test.