ŁAWRYNOWICZ MARIA: PROFESSOR WŁADYSŁAW WOJEWODA. HIS LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS ON REACHING HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY. 77-79. <abstract>

HEINRICH ZOFIA, PLEBAN BARBARA: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS BY WŁADYSŁAW WOJEWODA. 81-90. <abstract>

NIEMELÄ TUOMO, WALLENIUS TUOMO, KOTIRANTA HEIKKI: THE KELO TREE, A VANISHING SUBSTRATE OF SPECIFIED WOOD-INHABITING FUNGI. 91-101. <abstract>

KOTIRANTA HEIKKI, SAARENOKSA REIMA: NEW COMBINATIONS IN IRPEX (APHYLLOPHORALES, BASIDIOMYCETES). 103-107. <abstract>

ROBERTS PETER: TWO UNUSUAL AURICULARIOID FUNGI FROM NORWAY. 109-111. <abstract>

BUJAKIEWICZ ANNA: NEW, RARE AND ENDANGERED FUNGI IN THE BIAŁOWIEŻA PRIMEVAL FOREST (E POLAND). 113-124. <abstract>

FRIEDRICH STEFAN: SELECTED ASCOMYCOTA AND BASIDIOMYCOTA FROM CEDYNIA LANDSCAPE PARK (NW POLAND). 125-138. <abstract>

GUMIŃSKA BARBARA: NEW LOCALITIES OF TWO INTERESTING SPECIES OF FUNGI GROWING ON SAWDUST. 139-142. <abstract>

LAGANŔ ANGELA, SALERNI ELENA, BARLUZZI CARLA, DE DOMINICIS VINCENZO, PERINI CLAUDIA: FUNGI (MACROMYCETES) IN VARIOUS TYPES OF MEDITERRANEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS (TUSCANY, ITALY). 143-165. <abstract>

LISIEWSKA MARIA, STRAKULSKA MAGDALENA: BIODIVERSITY OF MACROFUNGI OF SELECTED FIELD AFFORESTATIONS IN THE AGROECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE PARK NEAR TUREW (CENTRAL WIELKOPOLSKA). 167-181. <abstract>

ŁUSZCZYŃSKI JANUSZ: PRELIMINARY RED LIST OF BASIDIOMYCETES IN THE GÓRY ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE MTS (POLAND). 183-193. <abstract>

RONIKIER ANNA: MATERIALS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES IN THE TATRA NATIONAL PARK (POLAND). 195-209. <abstract>

STASIŃSKA MAŁGORZATA, PRAJS BOŻENA: NEW RECORD OF MONTAGNEA ARENARIA (FUNGI, AGARICALES) AND ITS DISTRIBUTION IN POLAND. 211-213. <abstract>

WOŁCZAŃSKA AGATA, MUŁENKO WIESŁAW: NEW COLLECTIONS OF POWDERY MILDEWS (ERYSIPHALES) IN POLAND. 215-222. <abstract>

PIĄTEK MARCIN: NOMENCLATURAL AND TAXONOMICAL NOTES ON THE SMUT FUNGI DESCRIBED BY BOLESŁAWA KAWECKA-STARMACHOWA. 223-226. <abstract>

RAITVIIR AIN: A REVISION OF THE GENUS DASYSCYPHELLA (HYALOSCYPHACEAE, HELOTIALES). 227-241. <abstract>

CHLEBICKI ANDRZEJ: GRAMINICOLOUS FUNGI FROM POLAND 2. INTERACTIONS OF INTERNAL FUNGI ISOLATED FROM PUCCINELLIA DISTANS AND THEIR SALT TOLERANCE. 243-249. <abstract>

KOWALSKI TADEUSZ, ZYCH PAWEŁ: ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI IN NEEDLES OF PINUS NIGRA GROWING UNDER DIFFERENT SITE CONDITIONS. 251-257. <abstract>

MAŃKA MAŁGORZATA, TYSZKIEWICZ ZOFIA, RESZKO KRZYSZTOF, SZEWCZYK WOJCIECH: INFECTION THREAT OF HORNBEAM (CARPINUS BETULUS) TRANSPLANTS BY PATHOGENIC FUNGI.  259-263. <abstract>

MUKHIN VICTOR ANDREEVICH, VOTINTSEVA ANTONINA ALEXANDROVNA: BASIDIOSPORE GERMINATION AND CONIDIAL STAGES IN THE LIFE CYCLES OF FOMES FOMENTARIUS AND FOMITOPSIS PINICOLA (FUNGI, POLYPORALES). 265-272. <abstract>

STĘPNIEWSKA  HANNA: FREQUENCY OF ISOLATION AND DIVERSITY OF RHIZOCTONIA SPP. FROM TREE SEEDLINGS WITH DAMPING-OFF SYMPTOMS. 173-278. <abstract>

ABSTRACTS

• Maria Ławrynowicz, Department of Algology and Mycology, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, PL-Łódź, Poland

Abstract: In natural circumstances very old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris L.) usually die while still standing. At the time of their death the trees have reached up to 300-500 years of age, and while dead they may still stand for another 200-500 years or even more. Such long-ago died, debarked, standing pines are called in Finnish the `kelo', and the term is here proposed for common usage. When the kelo trees finally fall down, they make up a niche for a number of highly specialized fungi. A list is given on typical such Basidiomycetes (polypores and corticiaceous fungi). The onset of forest cutting virtually eradicated that kind of substrate from Central European lowland forests, as well as from the Mediterranean, which resulted in large-scale disappearance of many specialized fungi. Due to the slow development and extremely slow rate of decay of the kelo trees, also the fungi living on them seem to be slow in their colonization, needing a continuity in the supply of the substrate. Therefore scarce and random occurrence of dead standing pines will not suffice for the survival of fungi specialized to live on the kelo.

Abstract: Forty-eight species of the genera Flaviporus Murrill, Junghuhnia Corda and Steccherinum Gray are combined to Irpex Fr.: Fr. In our concept the genus Irpex is characterised with poroid, irpicoid or hydnoid hymenophore, dimitic hyphal system with clamped or simple septate generative hyphae, skeletal hyphae, thick-walled cystidia of tramal origin, cyanophilous hyphae, relatively small spores and white rot.

• Heikki Kotiranta, Finnish Environment Institute, Research Department, P.O. Box 140, FIN-00251 Helsinki, Finland
• Reima Saarenoksa, Department of Ecology and Systematics, P.O. Box 65, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
  

Abstract: Helicogloea caroliniana (Coker) G. E. Baker is described as new to Europe, based on collections in southwestern Norway. The parasitic species Achroomyces chlamydospora was found growing in the hymenium of H. caroliniana and is described as new to science.

• Peter Roberts, The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey TW9 3AE, United Kingdom; e-mail: P.Roberts@rbgkew.org.uk

Abstract: The ecology and distribution of several rare and endangered basidiomycetes are briefly characterized. The paper gives the first records of Hapalopilus croceus (Pers.: Fr.) Donk, Mycena megaspora Kauffman and Psathyrella populina (Britzelm.) Kits van Wav. fungi for the Białowieża Primeval Forest, and the first findings of Mycena picta (Fr.: Fr.) Harmaja, Phaeolepiota aurea (Bull.: Fr.) Konrad & Maubl. and Tubaria confragosa (Fr.) Kühner ex Harmaja for Poland.

Key words: Basidiomycetes, Coriolopsis, Gerronema, Hapalopilus, Hydropus, Mycena, Phaeolepiota, Psathyrella, Serpula, Tubaria, ecology, chorology, Białowieża Primeval Forest

• Anna Bujakiewicz, Department of Plant Ecology and Environmental Protection, Adam Mickiewicz University, Al. Niepodległości 14, PL-61-713 Poznań, Poland

Abstract: In the course of mycosociological investigations carried out in the Cedynia Landscape Park in 1985-2001, 707 species of macroscopic ascomycetous and basidiomycetous fungi were found. The paper characterizes the distribution of 172 selected species of fungi. This group includes species endangered in Poland and recorded on the `Red List' (134 species), fungi strictly protected in Poland (10 species), fungi monitored in Poland (18 species), and fungi whose distribution has been mapped in Europe (49 species).

• Stefan Friedrich, Department of Botany, Agriculture Academy, Słowackiego 17, PL-71-434 Szczecin, Poland; e-mail: sfriedrich@ agro.ar.szczecin.pl

Abstract: Hohenbuehelia geogenia (DC.: Fr.) Singer and Pluteus petasatus (Fr.) Gillet on sawdust in southern Poland are presented. Detailed descriptions of both species based on fresh specimens are provided. Information on known localities of these rare taxa in Poland is given.

Abstract: The results of mycocoenological research conducted over a period of nearly 30 years in central southern Tuscany (Italy) are reported. The 599 fungal species found in 11 permanent plots include ubiquitous taxa and taxa linked preferentially or exclusively to certain types of forest ecosystems. Fungal1 biodiversity was particularly high in evergreen oak forests of the Grosseto coast. Classification of samples brought out affinities and differences between the various fungal communities. Ordering by detrended correspondence analysis revealed that the relevés were disposed along a climate-altitude gradient. The health status of the forests, evaluated according to criteria proposed by Central European authors, was generally found to be good. The period of major fungal fruiting was autumn, though the duration of fruiting varied between different environments: in high altitude and coastal environments, the fungal mycelium produced carpophores nearly all year round, whereas no carpophores were found for many months in the hill belt.

• Angela Laganŕ & Elena Salerni, Vincenzo de Dominicis & Claudia Perini, Dip. Scienze Ambientali, Siena University, Via P. A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy; e-mail: lagana@unisi.it
• Carla Barluzzi, Via Sansedoni 9, 53100 Siena, Italy

Abstract: The paper presents the results of mycological observations on the diversity of macrofungi in selected field afforestations in the Agroecological Landscape Park. The occurrence of 139 species, mainly Agaricales, was recorded during studies of three permanent plots between 1998 and 2000. The participation of macrofungi in the field afforestations was analyzed in bioecological groups of mycorrhizal, saprotrophic and parasitic fungi.

Key words: Bioecological groups of macrofungi, field afforestations, Agroecological Landscape Park, Central Wielkopolska

• Maria Lisiewska, Department of Plant Ecology and Environment Protection, Adam Mickiewicz University, Al. Niepodległości14, PL-61-713 Poznań, Poland
• Magdalena Strakulska, Łużycka 6, PL-64-100 Leszno, Poland

Abstract: This article presents a preliminary red list of Basidiomycetes for the Góry Świętokrzyskie Mts (Poland). Categories of threat are given in accordance with the accepted rules presented in the Polish `Red List'. The list includes 313 species, with proposals of species not on the national list, and refers to species believed to be under threat or extinct in the Góry Świętokrzyskie Mts.

• Janusz Łuszczyński, Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski Świętokrzyska Academy, Świętokrzyska 15, ­PL-25-406 Kielce, Poland; e-mail: jluszcz@pu.kielce.pl

Abstract: Materials to the distribution of heterobasidiomycetes within the Tatra National Park in Poland are provided. Among 34 species occurring there, Calocera cornea (Batsch: Fr.) Fr., Eichleriella deglubens (Berk. & Broome) D. A. Reid and Sebacina incrustans (Pers.: Fr.) Tul. are reported for the first time from the area, and Calocera furcata (Fr.) Fr. is new to the whole Tatra Mts.

Key words: Heterobasidiomycetes, Tatra Mts, Poland, distribution

• Anna Ronikier, Department of Mycology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland; e-mail: A.Ronikier@ib-pan.krakow.pl

Abstract: Montagnea arenaria (DC.) Zeller, one of the rarest and most threatened fungi in Poland, was found in a new locality in xerothermic sward of Pomerania (NW Poland). The habitat, ecology and geographical distribution of M. arenaria in Poland are reviewed.

Key words: Gasteromycetes, agaricoid fungi, Montagnea arenaria, distribution, Pomerania, Poland

• Małgorzata Stasińska, Bożena Prajs, Department of Botany, Szczecin University, Felczaka 3a, PL-71-412 Szczecin, Poland, e-mail: stasinsk@univ.szczecin.pl; bajka@univ.szczecin.pl

Abstract: New hosts and records of powdery mildews (Erysiphales) in Poland are discussed. Erysiphe adunca (Wallr.) Fr. was found on a host new for this fungus: Salix repens L. subsp. arenaria (L.) Hiitonen. Two other species - Golovinomyces cichoracearum (DC.) V. P. Gelyuta var. cichoracearum (on Chondrilla juncea L.) and Erysiphe syringae Schwein. (on Ligustrum vulgare L.) - were collected on host plants new for Poland. The anamorphic as well as teleomorphic (cleistothecia with ascospores) state of Erysiphe syringae was observed on Ligustrum vulgare and Syringa vulgaris L.; hitherto this fungus has formed mature cleistothecia only in North America. Erysiphe flexuosa (Peck) U. Braun & S. Takamatsu has been introduced from North America to Europe recently. Aesculus pavia L. and A. × carnea Hayne are new hosts for this fungus in Poland. Golovinomyces cichoracearum var. ­cichoracearum [on Cirsium canum (L.) All.] and Podosphaera spiraeae (Sawada) U. Braun & S. Takamatsu (on Spiraea cf. japonica L.) are recorded on rare host plants.

• Agata Wołczańska & Wiesław Mułenko, Department of General Botany, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, ­PL-20-033 Lublin, Poland; e-mail: ­awolczan@biotop.umcs.lublin.pl; botog@biotop.umcs.lublin.pl

Abstract: The date of effective publication of a work on smut fungi by Bolesława Kawecka-Starmachowa is discussed. The rediscovered type specimen of Tuburcinia lolii Kawecka-Starmachowa is briefly described and the typification discussed. It is a heterotypic synonym of Urocystis bolivarii Bubák & Gonz. Frag. The records of that species in Poland are also reevaluated. Entyloma crepidis Kawecka-Starmachowa is confirmed as a synonym of Entyloma hieracii Syd. & P. Syd. ex R. Ciferri.

Abstract: The genus Dasyscyphella Tranzschel is critically revised and 20 species and one variety are included. Four new species, Dasyscyphella norvegica Raitv., sp. nov., Dasyscyphella pilosissima Raitv., sp. nov., Dasyscyphella rubi Raitv., sp. nov. and Dasyscyphella scirpicola Raitv., sp. nov., and a new variety, Dasyscyphella cassandrae Tranzschel var. uncinata Raitv., var. nov. are described. Two new combinations, Dasyscyphella castaneicola (Graddon) Raitv., comb. nov. and Dasyscyphella tamajonica (Raitv. & R. Galán) Raitv., comb. nov., are proposed.

• Ain Raitviir, Institute of Zoology and Botany, Estonian Agricultural University, Riia St., EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia; e-mail: ain@zbi.ee

Abstract: Internal fungi (endophytes) - Colletotrichum capsici (Syd.) Butl. & Bisby and an anamorph of Epichloë typhina (Pers.: Fr.) Tul. & C. Tul. [= Neotyphodium typhinum (Morgan-Jones & W. Gams) Glenn, C. W. Bacon & Hanlin] - were isolated from sheaths of Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl. growing on salinated substrate (NaCl over 4.0 mS/cm³). Preliminary studies indicated that Colletotrichum capsici, causing anthracnose in grass, has higher salt tolerance than the anamorph of E. typhina. Biotic series tests showed that the anamorph suppressed Colletotrichum capsici growth. The size of the inhibition zone between these fungi in vitro suggests that the E. typhina anamorph can successfully suppress C. capsici infection and growth inside the grass sheaths. Suppression was correlated with the salinity level.

Key words: endophytes, Epichloë, Neotyphodium, Colletotrichum, in vitro culture, inhibition zone, halophyte, Puccinellia distans, Poland

• Andrzej Chlebicki, Department of Mycology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland; e-mail: chlebick@ib-pan.krakow.pl

Abstract: Endophytic fungi in symptomless needles of Pinus nigra Arn. were studied in three stands differing in intensity of pollution by industrial emissions. A total 565 colonies of fungi belonging to 40 taxa were isolated from 1728 needle segments. The following fungi occurred most frequently: Anthostomella formosa Kirschst., A. pedemontana Ferr. & Sacc., Cenangium ferruginosum Fr.: Fr., Cladosporium cladosporioides (Fresen.) N. F. de Vries, Cyclaneusma minus (Butin) DiCosmo, Peredo & Minter, Lophodermium pinastri (Schrad. & J. M. Hook) Chev., L. seditiosum Minter, Staley & Millar, Sclerophoma pythiophila (Corda) Höhn. and Verticicladium trifidum Preuss. The frequency of latent infection depended on needle age, needle portion and position in the tree crown. Local site conditions affected the infection frequency as well. There was a distinct reduction in the qualitative and quantitative composition of the endophytic community in a zone heavily polluted by industrial emissions. Endophytes of Pinus nigra are compared with a community of fungi infecting symptomless needles of Pinus sylvestris L. growing in the vicinity.

Abstract: Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) transplants examined in an infection experiment with root pathogens Cylindrocarpon destructans (Zinss.) Scholt., C. magnusianum (Sacc.) Wollenw., Heterobasidion annosum (Fr.) Bref. and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) De Bary were not infected by either of the fungi. Moreover, neither of the pathogenic species was supported in its growth by the soil fungal community from the forest nursery that provided the transplants. Hornbeam's expansion in Polish forests may be attributable in part to its resistance to infection and to biotic relations in soil that are unfavorable to root infection.

• Małgorzata Mańka, Krzysztof Reszko & Wojciech Szewczyk, Department of Forest Pathology, August Cieszkowski Agricultural University, Wojska Polskiego 71c, PL-60-625 Poznań, Poland
• Zofia Tyszkiewicz,  Department of Soil Conservation, Białystok Technical University, Wiejska 45a, PL-15-351 Białystok, Poland

Abstract: Basidiospore germination and the development of primary and dikaryotic mycelia in Fomes fomentarius (L.: Fr.) J. J. Kickx and Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.: Fr.) P. Karst. were studied experimentally. This paper reports the first evidence of the conidial stages in the development of primary and dikaryotic mycelia of Fomes fomentarius and Fomitopsis pinicola, and proposes a new model of their life cycles.

Key words: Fomes fomentarius, Fomitopsis pinicola, basidiospore, germination, mycelium, conidial reproduction, life cycles

• Victor Andreevich Mukhin, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Urals Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Marta St., Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia; e-mail: victor.mukhin@ipae.uran.ru
• Antonina Alexandrovna Votintseva, Department of Botany, Biological Faculty, Ural State University, 51 Lenina St., Yekaterinburg, 620083, Russia; e-mail: a_votintseva@mail.ru

Abstract: The occurrence and diversity of fungi from the genus Rhizoctonia in seedlings of 10 tree species with damping-off symptoms collected in seven forest nurseries of southern Poland were studied. The fungi were found in each nursery investigated, colonizing on average 38% of the seedlings studied. Binucleate and multinucleate isolates were found. The multinucleate isolates were highly diversified in respect of culture morphology, sclerotia morphology, and tendency of sclerotia to form. The binucleate isolates, relatively homogenous, were more frequent in seedlings of broadleaf species.

• Hanna Stępniewska, Department of Forest Pathology, Faculty of Forestry, Agricultural University of Kraków, 29 Listopada 46, PL-31-425 Kraków, Poland