Table 2.

Indicators and questions of the semi-structured interviews proposed to evaluate the ethnomycological knowledge in Tlaltenango, Zacatecas and Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico

Indicator	Question*	Score**	References
1. Named mushroom species in Wixarika or Spanish	What mushrooms do you know?	0–X	[2, 8, 31, 55–64]
2. Mushroom recognized species	In this photograph, which mushrooms do you recognize?	0–30	[8, 60, 65, 66]
3. Taxonomic finesse (knowledge about the morphological characteristics that help people to differentiate ethnotaxa)	How do you recognize an edible mushroom from a toxic one?	0–2	[25, 35]
4. Phenological knowledge about mushrooms	When does the spn grow?	0–2	[41, 58, 61, 67–69]
5. Ethnoecological knowledge about mushrooms (function of mushrooms in ecosystems, what it grows on, where it grows, and plant association)	Where does the spn grow?	0–2	[58, 61, 63, 70–73]
6. Knowledge about edible mushrooms	Which edible mushrooms do you know?	0–X	[17, 18, 61, 74–76]
7. Recipes and cooking methods	How do you cook the spn?	0–2	[41, 58, 77]
8. Preservation methods	Do you keep mushrooms to eat in the dry season? How?	0–2	[17, 18, 58, 78, 79]
9. Knowledge of the nutritional contribution	What properties do mushrooms have as food?	0–2	[46, 80–82]
10. Uses of wild mushrooms	What are mushrooms for?	0–2	[17, 18, 41, 58, 61, 83, 84]
11. Propagation or promotion (techniques used to promote the growth of wild mushrooms)	Can you do something to get more mushrooms?	0–2	[18, 58, 85–89]
12. Knowledge about toxic mushrooms	Which toxic mushrooms do you know?	0–X	[18, 41, 49, 61, 90–93]

*sp_n refers to each of the mentioned or recognized species or ethnotaxa

** Score 0–X was coded as the total number of mentions. In the score from 0–2, 0 corresponds to a negative answer, 1 to a response on mushrooms in general, and 2 when the answer was specific to an ethnotaxon