UNIQUE FINDINGS OF BASIDIAL MACROMYCETESIN THE JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION

Abstract

The author considers some fungi species which have been recorded in the Jewish Autonomous region (southern part of the Russian Far East) only once. These species can be regarded as little-known either in the Russian Far East, or in the entire territory of Russia. The Bryoperdon acuminatum is only the second confirmed finding in the Russian Far East – partly, perhaps, due to the inconspicuousness of its mature fruitbodies; Entoloma ameides is a fairly well recognizable species with a specific pleasant smell of fruitbodies; Gloeostereum incarnatum is a species with large, conspicuous fruitbodies of a peculiar color and texture, also known both in the Primorsky and the Khabarovsk Territories; Leucoagaricus lateritiopurpureus and L. rubrobrunneus are litter saprotrophs with small fruitbodies – previously found, described and recorded only in the southern part of the Primorsky Territory; Limacellopsis guttata is a species confined to areas of deciduous forests with a thick layer of litter, and it is also known in the Russian Far East by single findings at the Amur Region and Khabarovsk Territory; Neoboletus erythropus is a mycorrhizal species growing in broad-leaved forests; Porodisculus pendulus was found for the first time in the Russian Far East floodplain of the Amur river on oak wood substrate, and later in the Amur Region in a similar habitat on the same substrate; Russula amoena was found in the Russian Far East only once, in light forests typical of the Middle Amur Lowland; Tricholoma frondosae is the only record of the species in the Russian Far East so far. The author provides the found fruitbodies photos. The material may be useful to mycologists in their field work.