A New Mycena Record for the Mycobiota of Turkey

The mycenoid species, Mycena pterigena (Fr.) P. Kumm. (Mycenaceae) is given as new record from Turkey. A brief description of the species and photographs related to its macro and micromorphologies are provided.


Introduction
Mycena (Pers.)Roussel is a large genus of the family Mycenaceae Underw., with about five hundred known species worldwide (Kirk et al., 2008).The members of the genus are generally small mushrooms rarely exceeding a few centimeters in diameter and are characterised by very fragile and thin, membranous, conical to campanulate pileus; adnate to arcuate or decurrent lamellae; 1-4-spored basidia; intricate cystidia; white spore print; and smooth, hyaline spores.Almost all the members of the genus are saprotrophic and play a vital role in litter decomposition especially in forests and woodlands.Species of the genus have cosmopolitan distribution, and are usually determined on the debris of conifers, other woody plants and rarely on or among the debris of grasses, mosses, ferns (Pegler, 1986;Singer, 1986).
The work aims to contribute to the mycobiota of Turkey.

Materials and Method
Macrofungi specimens were collected from Uzungöl Nature Park within the Çaykara district of Trabzon province during field trips in 2016 Morphological and ecological characteristics of the samples were recorded and they were photographed in their natural habitats.Then the specimens were transferred to the fungarium.Necessary microscopic investigations were carried out within the fungarium.Photographs related to micromorphology were also obtained during these investigations.The samples were identified with the help of Redhead (1984) and Miller (2004).
The specimens are kept at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Kamil Özdağ Science Faculty, Department of Biology.

Discussions
Current checklists on Turkish macromycota (Sesli and Denchev, 2014;Solak et al., 2015) indicate that 62 Mycena species have so far been recorded from Turkey.With this addition of Mycena, current species number of the genus Mycena increased to 63.
Like Mycena pterigena, M. lohwagii also determined from fern associated habitats, but it has a greyish pileus when young, has a larger fruit body, shorter projections on its cheilocystidia, larger spores and colonizes rhizomes (Miller, 2004).