B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 36. 2005 (Budapest, 2005)

Siller, Irén, Vasas, Gizella , Pál-Fám, Ferenc , Bratek, Zoltán , Zagyva, Imre; Fodor, Lívia: Hungarian distribution of the legally protected macrofungi species

lists have been compiled (ARNOLDS 1989, COURTECUISSE 1992), leading to subsequent proposals for species protection and conservation of sites of mycological interest (HERMANN and KUTHAN 1981). In some countries these efforts successfully led to legal protection for macrofungi (Bősze and FODOR 2005). The need for protection of macrofungi was first voiced in Hungary by BABOS (1989) and RIMOCZI (1992). Red lists were compiled soon after (SILLER and VASAS 1993, 1995a, b, RIMOCZI 1997, RIMÓCZI et al. 1999). The latest proposal (2004) enlists thirty-five species of macrofungi compiled after a long process of negotiations and considerations between a subcommittee of the Hungarian Mycological Society and representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Water. A discussion forum was organised in November 2004. The present article contains a characterisation of the species, and a discussion of their distribution, known Hungarian records and the justification why protection is suggested. Nomenclature and taxonomy follow Index Fungorum (KIRK 2001). METHODS The species proposed for protection are characterised by the following criteria: properties of fruit-body; gills and hymenium; flesh; stem; life-strategy, occurrences in Hungary; and habitat; distribution and frequency; Hungarian red list category. Hungarian red list category 1 corresponds to the IUCN Critically Endangered (CR) category. Category 2 corresponds to the IUCN Endangered (EN) category. Category 3 corresponds to the IUCN Vulnerable (VU) category. The species records represent those of the known Hungarian records (préparâtes or references to préparâtes of species only). Most of the specimens of the species proposed for protection are deposited in the herbarium of the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (BP). ENUMERATION Amanita vittadinii (Moretti) Sacc. (Agaricales, Pluteaceae) Cap: 5-15 cm diameter, white, decorated with whitish, later greyish felt-like, rough scales. Skin occasionally with scale-like cracks in the middle part. Margin is crenulate. Gills', free-standing, whitish when young, later becoming yellowish. Stem: cylindrical, clavate at base or fusiformly tapering towards base. Under the fringed, filmy ring the whole surface of the stem is densely covered by rough, relinquishing scales often arranged in rows.