L. Lőkös szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 26. 1995 (Budapest, 1995)

Siller, Irén; Vasas, Gizella: Red list of macrofungi of Hungary. (Revised edition)

Studio bot. hung. 26, pp. 7-14, 1995 RED LIST OF MACROFUNGI OF HUNGARY (REVISED EDITION) IRÉN SILLER

1 and GIZELLA VASAS

2 1 Department of Botany, University of Veterinary Sciences H-1400 Budapest, Pf. 2, Hungary 2 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1476 Budapest, Pf. 222, Hungary Several species of various living organisms are under protection in Hungary, but fungi, although, unfavourable anthropogenic influences do not avoid them either. Lists of protected fungi are usually given by the Red Data Books published recently in several European countries. The main goal of this paper is the presentation of a list of endangered macrofungi in Hungary. The list reflects our present knowledge about the species recquire urgent potection and about the categories into which they have to be classified for the sake of their successful protection. Key words: macrofungi, protection, Red Data List INTRODUCTION Increasing anthropogenic influences affect harmfully natural ecosystems, and a growing number of species becomes endangered. Thus, for about two decades, all over the world so-called Red Data Books and Red Data Lists have been compiled, which specify taxa threatened by extinction and outline the feasibilities of their protection. Fungi have been simply omitted by the nature conservation measures and red data lists for a long time (RAKONCZAY 1990). In Europe the supplementation of this insufficiency began in the eighties and macrofungi were also registered in some red lists (WINTERHOFF and KRIEGLSTEINER 1984, RASSI and VÄISÄNEN 1987, WÖLDECKE 1987, SCHMID 1990, BEDIKSEN and HOILAND 1992). In the last years some works were also published about the possibilities of the protection of macrofungi in Hungary (BABOS 1989, RlMÓCZl 1992a, 1992b, SILLER and VASAS 1993, 1995). In his article RlMÓCZl (1992Z?) examined the present situation in the country and set the most important duties to be done. The aim of the present work is to complete the red data list of macrofungi, which can be immediately submitted to the officials who are authorized to take the necessary legislative measures. The proposed list was compiled by the contribution of several Hungarian mycologists (Albert L., Babos M., Bohus G., Bratek Z., Locsmándi Cs., Rimóczi I., Siller I. and Vasas G.), who determined the endangered categories considering