Contributions to Turkish pyronemataceae from Gaziantep province

Abstract

Fourteen pyronemataceous macrofungi taxa (Aleuria exigua Rifai; Cheilymenia catenipila J. Moravec; Cheilymenia vitellina (Pers.) Dennis; Geopyxis majalis (Fr.) Sacc.; Geopyxis vulcanalis (Peck) Sacc.; Humaria aurantia (Clem.) Haffner, Benkert & Krisai; Kotlabaea deformis (P. Karst.) Svrček; Pulvinula johannis Lantieri; Pyronema domesticum (Sowerby) Sacc.; Scutellinia trechispora (Berk. & Broome) Lambotte; Smardaea planchonis (Dunal ex Boud.) Korf & W.Y. Zhuang; Tricharina ochroleuca (Bres.) Eckblad; Tricharina praecox (P. Karst.) Dennis; and Trichophaeopsis bicuspis (Boud.) Korf & Erb) are given as new records for the mycobiota of Turkey from Gaziantep Province. Three of them are the first members of the genera Kotlabaea Svrček, Smardaea Svrček, and Trichophaeopsis Korf & Erb in Turkey. Related photographs and short descriptions of the taxa are provided.