Albatrellopsis flettii, A New Genus for Turkish Albatrellaceae

Abstract

Fungal samples were collected from Kazdagi National Park (Bahkesir/Turkey) on October 25, 2014, and they were identified by implementing both traditional methods and ITS rDNA-based molecular phylogenetic analysis. By taking into account the high sequence similarity between the collected samples (ANK DNZ 023) and Albatrellopsis flettii (Morse ex Pouzar) Audet, the collected specimen was regarded as A. flettii, which was also verified my the morphological data. As a result, A. Roth/was reported for the first time from Turkey at the genus and species level. A short description of the newly reported species was provided together with its macro photography, illustrations of spores and hyphae, and spore images taken by a scanning electron microscope (SEM).