Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/2. (2011)

Botany

MACROMYCETES FROM THE AGARICALES ORDER AMONG THE “GHEORGHE SÄLÄGEANU” COLLECTION OF TÄRGUMURES NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM (I)

Daniela Ramona BOTO§ Muzeul de Stiintele Naturii Tárgu-Mures, Str. Horea nr. 24, RO-540036 Targu-Murej

Abstract: This work presents a part of the “Gheorghe Sälägeanu” collection which belongs to the Herbarium of Natural Science Museum from Tirgu-Murey The 92 taxons of macromycetes from the Agaricales order belong to 6 families: Agaricaceae, Amanitaceae, Bolbitiaceae, Coprinaceae, Entolomataceae, Hygrophoraceae.

For each taxons the scientific name was indicated, as well as the collecting location, date, the biological form, the edibility or the toxicity point of view (by conventional signs), the number of patrimony belongings registered in the inventory “Plante inferioare”, of Natural Science Museum from Targu-Murej and not least, the number of specimens.

The collection has an important value, first of all, because it emphasizes a part of the patrimony of our museum, secondly, due to the fact that it completes the knowledge concerning the ecology and chorology of some macromycetes from Romania and finally, because of the antiquity of some species (for more than half a century) and the collector’s notoriousness.

One of the species presented here, Hygrocybe calyptriformis is threatened on European level.

Keywords: mycetoepixilophyta, mycetoendoxilophyta, mycetogeophyta mycorrhiza, mycetogeophyta saprophytica, mycetotherophyta.

Introduction

In 2005, the Herbarium of rhe Natural Science Museum from Tärgu-Mures has enriched with a new collection, bought from Professor Gheorghe Sälägeanu. It contains 650 species of macromycetes. These represent almost half of the species ever found in Romania. The macromycetes are represented by fruit-bodies in different forms and colours, preserved by drying. The species were stipulated in “

Determinator pentru recunoasterea ciupercilor comestibile, necomestibile si oträvitoare din Romania”, which issued in 1985, at the Ceres Publishing House winning a Romanian Academy prize as the best contribution in this research field.

The biolog Gheorghe Sälägeanu worked with ‘Ovidius” University Constanta, Natural Science Department. He was the dean of the Superior Educational Institute Constanta, between 1976-1984. He is the author of numerous botanical works, one of them being “

Rezervatii, monumente si frumuseti ale naturii dinjudetul Constanta'

, edited by the Natural Science Complex, Constanta, in 1978 and more than 60 other articles which are concerning the same scientifical field. He was member of the European Society of Mapping Macromycetes, in the Romanian Biological Sciences Society and in the Romanian Commission of the Nature Monuments from Constanta.

M A R I S 1 A, XXXI, p. 35M7