First record of Eichleriella leucophaea (Basidiomycota) from Italy

Alessandro Saitta

doi:10.15560/11.6.1796

Check List 11(6): e19398, doi: 10.15560/11.6.1796

First record of Eichleriella leucophaea (Basidiomycota) from Italy

Alessandro Saitta^‡

‡ University of Palermo, Italy

Corresponding author: Alessandro Saitta ( alsaitta@gmail.com )

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Citation: Saitta A (2015) First record of Eichleriella leucophaea (Basidiomycota) from Italy. Check List 11(6): 1796. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1796

Abstract

Eichleriella leucophaea Bres., a wood inhabiting heterobasidiomycete, is recorded for the first time in Italy. Fruiting body occurred on branch of Quercus ilex L. Description, distributional and ecological data of this uncommon taxon are here provided.

Keywords

Sicily; Mediterranean area; heterobasidiomycetes; wood inhabiting fungi