Fourteen pyronemataceous macrofungi taxa (Aleuria exigua Rifai; Cheilymenia catenipila J. Moravec; Cheilymenia vitellina (Pers.) Dennis; Geopyxis majalis (Fr.) Sacc.; Geopyxis vulcanalis (Peck) Sacc.; Humaria aurantia (Clem.) Häffner, Benkert & Krisai; Kotlabaea deformis (P. Karst.) Svrček; Pulvinula johannis Lantieri. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2016) 40: 298-307 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Article Contributions to Turkish Pyronemataceae from Gaziantep Province 1,* 1 2 1 Abdullah KAYA , Yasin UZUN , İbrahim Halil KARACAN , Semiha YAKAR Department of Biology, Kâmil Özdağ Science Faculty, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey 2 Ömer Özmimar Religious Anatolian High School, Gaziantep, Turkey 1 Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: Fourteen pyronemataceous macrofungi taxa (Aleuria exigua Rifai; Cheilymenia catenipila J. Moravec; Cheilymenia vitellina (Pers.) Dennis; Geopyxis majalis (Fr.) Sacc.; Geopyxis vulcanalis (Peck) Sacc.; Humaria aurantia (Clem.) Häffner, Benkert & Krisai; Kotlabaea deformis (P. Karst.) Svrček; Pulvinula johannis Lantieri; Pyronema domesticum (Sowerby) Sacc.; Scutellinia trechispora (Berk. & Broome) Lambotte; Smardaea planchonis (Dunal ex Boud.) Korf & . Zhuang; Tricharina ochroleuca (Bres.) Eckblad; Tricharina praecox (P. Karst.) Dennis; and Trichophaeopsis bicuspis (Boud.) Korf & Erb) are given as new records for the mycobiota of Turkey from Gaziantep Province. Three of them are the first members of the genera Kotlabaea Svrček, Smardaea Svrček, and Trichophaeopsis Korf & Erb in Turkey. Related photographs and short descriptions of the taxa are provided. Key words: Biodiversity, Pyronemataceae, new records, Turkey 1. Introduction Pyronemataceae is an ascomycetous fungal family within the order Pezizales, and represented by 43 members in Turkey (Solak et al., 2007, 2015; Sesli and Denchev, 2008; Akata and Kaya, 2013; Karacan et al., 2015; Kaya and Uzun, 2015). Thirteen of the 43 taxa currently exist in Gaziantep or neighboring provinces and 11 of them, Cheilymenia theleboloides (Alb. & Schwein.) Boud., Hypotarzetta insignis (Berthet & Riousset) Donadini, Pseudombrophila merdaria (Fr.) Brumm., Pulvinula archeri .
