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Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Scop.) Berk. belonging to the family Boletaceae Chevall. was reported from Zigana Mountain (Gümüşhane). It is the first member of the genus Strobilomyces Berk. to be registered from Turkey. A short diagnosis, ecology, distribution and photographs related to macro and micromorphologies of the species are provided.
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Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Scop.) Berk. (Boletaceae Chevall.), a new genus record for Turkish Mycobiota
Ilgaz AKATA *1
1 Ankara University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Scop.) Berk. belonging to the family Boletaceae Chevall. was reported from
Zigana Mountain (Gümüşhane). It is the first member of the genus Strobilomyces Berk. to be registered from Turkey.
A short diagnosis, ecology, distribution and photographs related to macro and micromorphologies of the species are
provided.
Key words: Strobilomyces strobilaceus, Biodiversity, Macrofungus, New record, Turkey
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Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Scop.) Berk. (Boletaceae Chevall.), Türkiye mikobiyotası için yeni bir cins kaydı
Özet Boletaceae Chevall. familyasına mensup Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Scop.) Zigana Dağı’ndan (Gümüşhane)
rapor edilmiştir. Bu Strobilomyces Berk. cinsinin Türkiye’den kaydedilen ilk üyesidir. Türün kısa deskripsiyonu,
ekolojisi, yayılışı ve makro ve mikromorfolojilerine ait fotoğrafları verilmiştir.
Anahtar kelimeler: Strobilomyces strobilaceus, Biyoçeşitlilik, Makrofungus, Yeni kayıt, Türkiye
1. Introduction
Strobilomyces is a small genus, in the family Boletaceae (Boletales) in having coarsely to scaly, blackish or
grayish cap with partial veils, woolly stems reticulate or warty spores (Arora, 1986). The species of the genus are
almost worldwide. It is known from Asia, Africa, North America, Europe and Australia (Sato et al., 2005).
Strobilomyces strobilaceus is the only European member of this genus and commonly known as old man of
the woods in Europe and as Saç mantar in Turkey. This species is characterized by very soft dark grey to black
pyramidal and overlapping scales on the cap surface. In spite of the widespread occurrence throughout Europe, it is
included in the National red lists of a number of countries (Assyov et al., 2011).
According to current checklists on macromycota of Turkey (Solak et al., 2007; Sesli and Denchev, 2008) and
latest records (Akata, 2010; Gücin et al., 2010; Uzun et al., 2010; Akata and Halıcı, 2010; Akata et al., 2011a; 2011b;
Allı, 2011; Allı et al., 2011; Doğan et al. 2010; Keleş and Demirel 2010), Strobilomyces strobilaceus is reported for the
first time from Turkey.
The aim of the current study is to make a contribution to Turkish mycobiota by adding a new genus record.
2. Materials and methods
Fungi specimens were collected from Zigana Mountain (Gümüşhane) in 2011. Relevant morphological and
ecological properties of the samples were noted and they were photographed in their natural habitats. Thereafter they
were taken to the laboratory for necessary macroscopic and microscopic investigations. Reagents such as Melzer
reagent, 5% KOH, distillate water were used. Identification was performed with the aid of literature (Arora, 1986;
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Breitenbach and Kranzlin, 1991; Hansen and Knudsen, 1992; Jordan, 2004; Phillips, 1981). The identified specimens
were deposited at the Ankara University Herbarium (ANK).
3. Results
A short diagnosis, ecology and distribution, geographical position, locality and collection date, photographs of
the fruit body and spores are provided. The systematics of the taxon is in accordance with Kirk et al. (2008).
Fungi
Basidiomycota Whittaker ex Moore
Boletales E.-J. Gilbert
Boletaceae Chevall.
Strobilomyces Berk.
Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Scop.) Berk. (1851)
Synonymy: Boletus cinereus Pers. (1801), B. floccopus Pers. (1796), B. strobilaceus Scop. (1772), B.
strobiliformis Vill. (1789), B. strobiliformis Dicks. (1785), Strobilomyces floccopus (Vahl) P. Karst. (1882), S.
strobiliformis Beck (1923).
Macroscopic features: Pileus 6-9 cm across, hemisphaerical when young, then expanding to convex, dark
grey with some whitish areas (Figure 1a), mouse gray brown to black covered with large and thick, brownish to black,
pyramidal and erected scales some of which overhanging to margin (Figure 1b). Margin irregularly fimbriate to
floccose, with grayish partial veil, quickly disrupting and leaving remnants on margin and upper portion of the stipe.
Flesh thick and firm, whitish, pink when cut, then turning blackish-brown. Odor and taste not distinctive, Pores angular
(Figure 1d), whitish at first, then gray brownish, reddish when bruised. Tubes up to 15 mm long, greyish white, reacting
similarly with pores when bruised. Stipe 8-11 x 1-2 cm, cylindrical, somewhat thickened at apex, fibrillose or floccose,
almost concolorous with the pileus, covered with wooly scales. Annular zone pale grayish at apex (Figure 1c).
Microscopic features: Basidiospores 10-12 x 9-11 µm, brown, subglobose with reticulate ornamentation
(Figure 1e). Basidia 50-60 x 15-18 µm, clavate, 2 or 4 spored, without basal clamp. Cystidia 70-80 x 25-30 µm,
fusiform to ventricose with brown pigments. Pileipellis consisting of parallel, short-celled hyphae 8-11 µm across, with
brownish pigments, septa without clamps.
Ecology: Summer to fall, solitary to gregarious, in hardwood and coniferous forests, on soil, colline to
mountain, more rarely subalpine elevation, rare (Arora, 1986; Breitenbach and Kranzlin, 1991; Hansen and Knudsen,
1992, Jordan, 2004).
Specimen examined: TURKEYGümüşhane: Zigana mountain, Hamsi village, in spruce (Picea orientalis
(L.) Link) forest, on soil, 40° 42' N, 39° 28' E, 1360 m, 02.09.2011, Akata 4084.
Figure1. Strobilomyces strobilaceus: a- basidiocarp, b- scales, c- annular zone. d-pores, e-basidiospores.
4. Conclusions
S. strobilaceus can be confused with S. confusus Singer and S. dryophilus Cibula & N.S. Weber in terms of
morphology and ecology. They have coarsely to scaly caps and wooly stems, and grow on soil. S. confusus is quite
similar in color and overall aspect, but has a slightly smaller cap with smaller and more erect scales and its spores have
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irregular ridges that resemble a partial mesh. S. dryophilus has a dull grey-pink to pinkish- tan cap and produces spores
with a complete mesh (Arora, 1986).
According to Sesli and Denchev 2011 and recently published data ( Akata et al., 2011a; 2011b; Allı, 2011; Al
et al., 2011), three genera (Boletus L., Leccinum Gray and Phylloporus Quél.) of the family Boletaceae have so far
been reported from Turkey.
With the present study, Strobilomyces strobilaceus is added to mycobiota of Turkey as new record, at genus
level and current genus number of Turkish Boletaceae increased to four.
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