Mycosphere Occurrence of coprophilous Agaricales in Italy, new records, and comparisons with their European and extraeuropean distribution Doveri F* Via Baciocchi 9, I-57126-Livorno
[email protected] Doveri F 2010 – Occurrence of coprophilous Agaricales in Italy, new records, and comparisons with their European and extraeuropean distribution Mycosphere 1(2), 103–140. This work is the successor to a recent monograph on coprophilous ascomycetes and basidiomycetes from Italy. All Italian identifications of coprophilous Agaricales, which the author has personally studied over an 18 year period, are listed and categorized depending on the dung source. All collections were subjected to the same procedure and incubated in damp chambers and an estimate of occurrence of fungal species on various dung types is made. A second collection of Coprinus doverii is described and discussed, while the southern most finding of Panaeolus alcis is listed. An additional collection of Psilocybe subcoprophila, a species previously reported from Italy, is described and illustrated with colour photomicrographs. The morphological features of each species is briefly described, and substrate preferences compared with those reported from previous data. Key words – Coprinus doverii – damp chambers – fimicolous basidiomycetes – frequency – natural state – Panaeolus alcis – Psilocybe subcoprophila – survey. Article Information Received 25 March 2010 Accepted 21 May 2010 Published online 19 July 2010 *Corresponding author: Francesco Doveri – e-mail –
[email protected] Introduction have recently been made and despite a The commencement of our systematic relatively slow increase in the numbers of studies on the dung fungi of Italy started in coprophilous basidiomycetes known from Italy 1992 resulting in Doveri (2004) and Doveri et and the inability to use field records for al.