The checklist of the macromycetes determined in Gaziantep province

This study was based on the findings of macrofungal studies performed within the boundaries of Gaziantep Province between 2009 and 2019. Tracing the researches carried out in the region, a list of 404 taxa belonging to 203 genera, 80 families, 23 order and 8 classes within Ascomycota and Basidiomycota have been compiled.

Gaziantep is a province of Turkey within Southeastern Anatolian region and is among the studied regions of Turkey. In Gaziantep, the first mycological study related to macrofungi was carried out by Kaya (2009) in a restricted area (Huzurlu High Plateau). Starting from 2012, three local lists from Araban , Şehitkamil and Yavuzeli , and İslahiye ) districts were presented. Following these studies 83 macromycete taxa have been reported as new records for the macromycota of Turkey from the region Kaya et al., , 2016Uzun et al., 2015b;Uzun et al., 2017a,b,c;Uzun et al., 2018a,b,c). Lastly a contributory list was also presented about the macromycete taxa of the region by .
The current study was based on the findings of the studies that have so far been carried out within the boundaries of Gaziantep province. The aim of the study is to present the marcromycetes of Gaziantep province as a complete list and to contribute to the knowledge of the mycobiota of Turkey.

Materials and Method
The researches published on macromycetes of Gaziantep province were traced and a list of the macromycete taxa was prepared together with the references they were presented in. During preparation of the list, only the taxa presented in a peer reviewed article were considered, and those presented in conference papers, graduate theses or project reports were not included. The authors names of fungal taxa are abbreviated according to Kirk & Ansell (1992) and Kirk et al. (2004). The systematic of the taxa follows Cannon and Kirk (2007), Kirk et al. (2008), and Index fungorum (accessed 20 December 2019).

Discussions
Compiling the overall macrofungal taxa that had been presented so far, Gaziantep was determined to hosts a total of 404 taxa within Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. One hundred and forty five (%35.89) of them belong to Ascomycota while 259 (%64.11) belong to Basidiomycota.
The taxa determined in the region were found to distribute in eight classes (Table 1) and 23 orders (