A taxonomic study on the macrofungi grown in Sarıkamış Allahuekber Mountains National Park (Kars-Erzurum)

The present study was carried out on macrofungi grown in Sarıkamış Allahuekber Mountains National Park (Kars-Erzurum). Macrofungi specimens were collected between the years of 2011 and 2016 during field studies. The colorful photographs of all specimens were taken in natural habitat with digital camera. The ecological and morphological features of specimens and information on macrofungi known by local people were recorded. According to field and laboratory investigations, the total of 254 species belonging to 48 families and 11 ordos stated in Leotiomycetes, Orbiliomycetes, Pezizomycetes Agaricomycetes and Dacrymycetes classis were identified. 91 of them are edible, 134 of them are inedible, 29 of them are poisonous. Moreover, in the present study, the following 22 species were identified as new records for Turkish Mycobiota: Arachnopeziza aurelia, Phaeohelotium carneum, Hyaloscypha albohyalina, Brunnipila clandestina, Adelphella babingtonii, Peziza praetervisa, Octospora leucoloma, Pulvinula convexella, Pseudoplectania nigrella, Cystodermella terryi, Lycoperdon pusillum, Conocybe anthracophila, Cortinarius brunneus, Entoloma papillatum, Hebeloma fastibile, Psilocybe paupera, Inocybe obsoleta, Tricholomella constricta, Clitocybula abundans, Marasmius collinus, Tricholoma moseri and Tubulicrinis angustus. The systematic, photographs of basidiocarp, ascocarp and spores, distributions, the descriptions of new records and the other features of identified macrofungi were given.