tailieunhanh - Lepiotaceous fungi (Agaricaceae) in the Iranian part of Caucasia

In this research, lepiotaceous fungi belonging to the family Agaricaceae were collected and identified from the Iranian part of Caucasia. As a result of these investigations, 14 species belonging to 6 genera (Chlorophyllum Massee, Cystolepiota Singer, Lepiota (Pers.) Gray, Leucoagaricus Locq. ex Singer, Leucocoprinus Pat. | M. R. ASEF, P. MURADOV Research Note Turk J Bot 36 (2012) 289-294 © TÜBİTAK doi: Lepiotaceous fungi (Agaricaceae) in the Iranian part of Caucasia Mohammad Reza ASEF1,*, Panah MURADOV2 1 Department of Botany, Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran - IRAN 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku - AZERBAIJAN Received: Accepted: Abstract: In this research, lepiotaceous fungi belonging to the family Agaricaceae were collected and identified from the Iranian part of Caucasia. As a result of these investigations, 14 species belonging to 6 genera (Chlorophyllum Massee, Cystolepiota Singer, Lepiota (Pers.) Gray, Leucoagaricus Locq. ex Singer, Leucocoprinus Pat., and Macrolepiota Singer) were identified. Of the species identified, Chlorophyllum molybdites (.) Massee, Cystolepiota seminuda (Lasch) Bon, Lepiota clypeolarioides Rea, Lepiota felina (Pers.) ., and Leucocoprinus ianthinus (Cooke) are new for Iranian fungus biota. Key words: Biodiversity, Caucasus area, taxonomy Introduction Caucasia is a region with a total area of 580,000 km2 (58 million ha) that consists, in full or in part, of 6 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Caucasia is one of the most biologically rich regions and is ranked among the planet’s 25 most diverse and endangered hotspots. It is a hotspot of plant and animal diversity and endemism, and it is located at a biological crossroads between species from central and northern Europe, central Asia and the Middle East, and North Africa, with endemics found nowhere else. The Iranian part of Caucasia has a total area of 3 million ha and includes 2 major regions (corridors), Arasbaran and Hyrcan, that constitute the southern stretches of the Caucasus (Transcaucasia) (Asef, 2009). The Hyrcan Corridor ( million ha) includes the Talysh Mountains and the north-western part of the .