Check List 15(6): 1093-1097, doi: 10.15560/15.6.1093
A northern record of Meripilus giganteus (Fr.) P. Karst., 1882 (Polyporales, Agaricomycetes) from Dubki Park, Saint Petersburg, Russia
expand article infoIvan Viktorovich Zmitrovich‡, Natalya Ivanovna Kalinovskaya§, Stanislav Pavlovich Arefyev|, Alexey Georgievich Myasnikov#¤, Oleg Nikolaevich Ezhov«
‡ Laboratory of the Systematics and Geography of the Fungi, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia§ Laboratory of the Systematics and Geography of the Fungi, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia| Institute of Problems of Development of the North – subdivision of Federal Research Center Tyumen Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia¶ Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia# Department of Applied Mathematics of the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Moscow, Russia¤ Saint Petersburg Mycological Society, Mycology Department, Komarov Botanical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia« N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Arkhangelsk, Russia

Corresponding author: Oleg Nikolaevich Ezhov ( olegezhik@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Meike Piepenbring
© Ivan Viktorovich Zmitrovich, Natalya Ivanovna Kalinovskaya, Stanislav Pavlovich Arefyev, Alexey Georgievich Myasnikov, Oleg Nikolaevich Ezhov.
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Abstract

We present a new record for the polypore Meripilus giganteus (Fr.) P. Karst., 1882 from Dubki Park, Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is one of the northernmost records in Europe for this species. The morphological description of M. giganteus LE 287654 is given and its ecological preferences, which highlight an unusual ecological situation of this species in Dubki Park, are discussed.

Keywords
Endangered species, Giant Polypore, new record, oak zone, polypores