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12 5 1972 the journal of biodiversity data 30 September 2016 Check List NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION Check List 12(5): 1972, 30 September 2016 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/12.5.1972 ISSN 1809-127X © 2016 Check List and Authors New records of corticioid fungi from Sicily Alessandro Saitta1* and Cristiano Losi2 1 Università di Palermo, Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, Viale delle Scienze, I-90128, Palermo, Italy 2 Cannaregio 3608, I-30121, Venice, Italy * Corresponding author: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: This paper is the result of an on-going and 38° N and 012° E and 015° E; its climate is Mediter- study on distribution and ecology of corticioid wood- ranean with mild and rainy winters, and warm and dry inhabiting fungi in Sicily. Twenty-five species not summers. previously recorded in Sicily are here listed. For each The species reported in this study were collected from taxon, ecological and distributional data are provided. January 2012 to March 2015. Records were derived from Subulicystidium perlongisporum was recorded in Italy a larger mycological study on wood-inhabiting corticioid for the first time in two localities occurring on Quercus fungi in Sicily. Regular and planned survey trips were ilex L. wood. Description, distributional and ecological conducted in several localities (Figure 1 and 2) and on data of this rare taxon are also provided. Dendrophora various substrata. Basidiomata of corticioid fungi were versiformis and Kavinia alboviridis, considered rare collected in Mediterranean maquis, the broadleaved species in Italy and Europe, are included in this report. and coniferous forests of Sicily. Broadleaved forests are dominated by oak species, especially Quercus ilex Key words: Aphyllophorales; cystidia; Mediterranean L. and Q. suber L. Coniferous forests are dominated area; Subulicystidium perlongisporum; wood-inhabiting by Pinus species. Fungi were collected on fallen trunks fungi and branches, removed from substrata with a sharp knife and placed in a paper bag. Samples were taken to the laboratory for microscopic examination. The The objective of this contribution is to improve the nomenclature of fungal species follows CBS (http:// knowledge on distribution and ecology of corticioid www.cbs.knaw.nl/databases/aphyllo/database.aspx) fungi in Sicily. Very few studies have been carried out and Mycobank (http://www.mycobank.org), except concerning corticioid fungi from Mediterranean ecosys- in a few cases, and for plants the International Plant tems. Corticioid fungi are basidiomycetes with effused Names Index (http://www.ipni.org). Each species is basidiomata, a smooth, merulioid or hydnoid hymeno- accompanied by ecological and distributional data, phore, and holobasidia (Larsson 2007), included in the date of collection and collection numbers. Excluding group of aphyllophoroid fungi. Knowledge on diversity the specimen deposited at the herbarium of University of aphyllophoroid wood-inhabiting fungi in Italy has in- of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (TU) all vouchers specimens creased remarkably over the last years: altogether, 770 are deposited at the herbarium of the Museo di Storia taxa have been recorded in Italy (Saitta et al. 2011). Data Naturale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (MCVE). on diversity and distribution of aphyllophoroid species Macroscopic examinations were carried out on in Sicily were published in several papers (Saitta et al. fresh basidiomata while the microscopic features were 2004; Bernicchia et al. 2007; Bernicchia et al. 2008; observed under a Zeiss Axioskop. Dried specimens were Saitta and Venturella 2010; Saitta et al. 2011). New dis- rehydrated using a 0.3% KOH solution and stained tributional and ecological information on new, uncom- with 0.1% cotton blue in lactic acid, Melzer’s and Congo mon and/or rare corticioid species has been recently Red reagents. Spore measurements are based on 30 published (Saitta and Melo 2012; Gorjón and Saitta observations of fresh and dried samples. All specimens 2014; Pecoraro et al. 2014; Saitta et al. 2014a, 2014b). were collected and identified by AS and confirmed by The number of recorded corticioid species in Sicily is 102 CL. Species identifications were based on Eriksson and (see Appendix) excluding the new records herein. Sic- Ryvarden (1973, 1975, 1976), Eriksson et al. (1984), ily is the largest Mediterranean island and is predomi- Hjortstam et al. (1988), and Bernicchia and Gorjón nantly hilly and mountainous. Sicily lies between 35° N (2010). Check List | www.biotaxa.org/cl 1 Volume 12 | Number 5 | Article 1972 Saitta and Losi | Corticioid fungi from Sicily Figure 1. Location of the investigated area (Sicily) with localities of collections (1-20). 1: Monte Pellegrino. 2: Bosco Niscemi. 3: Parco della Favorita. 4: Monte Petroso. 5: Mandria Zarcati. 6: Casa Munciarrati. 7: Piano Torre. 8: Monte dei Cervi. 9: Villa Salvia. 10: Monte Passo dei Lupi. 11: Birribbaida. 12: Contrada Buscemi. 13: Bivio Lupo. 14: Santa Barbara. 15: Galleria Roccazzo. 16: Monte Pispisa. 17: Monte Gibliscemi. 18: Sughereta di Niscemi. 19: Punte di Cuti. 20: Costa Lunga. Subulicystidium perlongisporum Boidin & Gilles (Figure 3) is a first report for Italy. This rare corticioid species was previously recorded in Europe only in Spain and Denmark (see remarks). Many listed species are considered rare in Italy (see remarks). Dendrophora versiformis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Cham- uris and Kavinia alboviridis (Morgan) Gilb. & Burdginton (Figure 4) are considered rare species in Italy and Europe (Bernicchia and Gorjón 2010). Amylocorticium cebennense (Bourdot) Pouzar (DD), Coronicium gemmiferum (Bourdot & Galzin) J. Erikss. & Ryvarden (DD), Hyphoderma medioburiense (Burt.) Donk (VU), Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.) Lentz (LC), Lep to sporomyces fuscostratus (Burt) Hjortstam (NA), Sistotrema brinkmannii Figure 2. Location of the investigated area (Pantelleria, Sicily) with (Bres.) J. Erikss. (LC), Sistotrema muscicola (Pers.) S. Lundell localities of collections. Image adapted from Google Earth™ (https://earth. (LC), Sistotrema oblongi sporum M. P. Christ. & Hauerslev google.com/). (LC), Trechispora microspora (P. Karst.) Liberta (LC), Trechis- pora stellulata (Bourdot & Galzin) Liberta (LC), Tubulicium Twenty-five corticioid species new to Sicily are listed vermiferum (Bourdot) Oberw. ex Jülich (DD), Tubulicrinis here in alphabetical order. Included are ecological and chalotrix (Pat.) Donk (DD), Tubulicrinis medius (Bourdot distributional data for each taxon. Including these 25 & Galzin) Oberw. (LC), Tubulicrinis subulatus (Bourdot new records, 127 corticiod fungi are known from Sicily. & Galzin) Donk (LC) and Xylodon rimosissimus (Peck) Check List | www.biotaxa.org/cl 2 Volume 12 | Number 5 | Article 1972 Saitta and Losi | Corticioid fungi from Sicily 28599; Italy. Sicily. Pantelleria, Cuddia Attalora, 20 November 2013, 36°44′39.926″ N, 012°01′26.940″ E on R. officinalis, MCVE 28600; Italy. Sicily. Petralia Sot- tana, Villa Salvia, 30 April 2014, on R. officinalis, MCVE 28603. Remarks: This species is considered rare in Italy by Bernicchia and Gorjón (2010). It was previously collected only from the Lazio and Tuscany regions (Bernicchia and Gorjón 2010). The sole reliable character separating A. dextrinoideocerussatum from A. cerussatum seems to be the acanthophyses with dextrinoid and branched protuberances (Moreno et al. 1990). Amylocorticium cebennense (Bourdot) Pouzar (Pouzar 1959: 11) Material examined: Italy. Sicily. Pantelleria, Monte Gibele, 18 November 2013, 36°46′39.170″ N, 012°00′ 34.566″ E, on fallen trunk of Pinus hamiltonii Ten., MCVE 28595. Remarks: Within the genus Amylocorticium, A. cebenn ense is characterized by lack of cystidia, presence of clamps and allantoid spores. It occurs mostly in the northern part of Italy (Bernicchia and Gorjón 2010) and this record extends the distribution to southern Italy. Coronicium gemmiferum (Bourdot & Galzin) J. Erikss. & Ryvarden (Eriksson and Ryvarden 1975: 297) Materials examined: Italy. Sicily. Casa Munciarrati, 30 March 2014, 37°55′11.740″ N, 013°58′08.509″ E, on Figure 3. Subulicystidium perlongisporum. A: Basidium. B: Basidiospores. fallen trunk of Quercus suber L., MCVE 28613; Italy. C: Cystidia, basidioles and basidia. Sicily. Pantelleria, Punta Spadillo, 18 November 2013, 36°49′15.107″ N, 012°00′43.449″ E, on fallen branch of Q. Hjortstam & Ryvarden (DD), are included in the Danish ilex, MCVE 28597; Italy. Sicily. Palermo, Bivio Lupo, 20 Red List (http://www2.dmu.dk/1_Om_DMU/2_Tvaer- March 2014, 37°55′15.457″ N, 013°22′38.290″ E, on fallen funk/3_fdc_bio/projekter/redlist/artsgrupper_en.asp) trunk of Quercus gussonei (Borzì) Brullo, MCVE 28612. and Hyphoderma medioburiense (NT) Hyphodontia juniperi Remarks: This is a species with distribution in south- (Bourdot & Galzin) J. Erikss. & Hjortstam (NT), and ern Europe, and may be a thermophilic species (Eriksson Kavinia alboviridis (NT) in the Norwegian Red List (http:// and Ryvarden 1975). Coronicium thymicola (Bourdot & www.artsdatabanken.no/File/685/Norsk%20rødliste%20 Galzin) Jülich differs from C. gemmiferum having naked for%20arter). There is presently no official Red List in Italy. cystidia. Acanthophysellum dextrinoideocerussatum (Manjón, Dendrophora versiformis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Cham- M.N. Blanco & G. Moreno) Sheng H. Wu, Boidin & C.Y. uris (Chamuris 1987: 544) Chien (Wu et al. 2000: 160) Material examined: Italy. Sicily. Trapani, Monte Passo Materials examined: Italy. Sicily. Pantelleria, Fossa del Lupo, 21 April 2014, 38°7′36.088″