B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 34. 2003 (Budapest, 2003)

Tóth, Sándor: Ascomycetes from the bequest of J. Bánhegyi

Studia bot. Ináig. 34, pp. J l-l S, 2003 ASCOMYCETES FROM THE BEQUEST OF J. BÁNHEGYI S. TÓTH Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Szent István University H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter Károly út I, Hungary Records of Ascomycetes belonging mostly to the Discomycetes are presented here from the bequest of J. Bánhegyi. The collecting sites are located mainly in Hungary, including the wider surroundings of Budapest, the surroundings of Csévharaszt, Kőszeg and Pécs, and some places from the Vértes Mts. A smaller number of records are from Transylvania (Romania), and Bavaria (Germany). Key words: enumeration, Discomycetes, Helvetia, Humaria. Sarcoscypha kecskemetiensis, Scutellinia, Trichophaea INTRODUCTION József Bánhegyi (1911-1976), the founder, organiser and later the head (1953-1973) of the Microbiological Department of the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) had a wide scientific interest in several fields of mycology. In his doctoral thesis (1937) he studied and presented all discomycete species occurring around Budapest. He continued the investigation of this group of fungi and described several new cup fungus taxa. In his microbiological lectures at the university he strived for a well balanced scope of teaching all the time; due to his duties with the management of the department and other obligations very little time remained for his microscopical research work. However, he continued collecting the discomycetes, and published the first records on the "Ingoldian Hyphomycetes" from Hungary. He was also interested in other microfungi groups, especially the Myxomycètes. His reviving hope of escape from the military captivity in the Soviet Union (1944-1947) shows in his specimens of discomycetes and myxomycètes he gathered in that difficult period of time. His famous investigations on the Laboulbeniales, based partly on his own collections and partly on the insect collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum are highly esteemed even by the recent international literature (TAVARES 1985). He devoted the last part of his active life also to the work on that group. Most of his unidentified or identified but unpublished specimens from his mycological bequest were revised and published by two of his students (Lídia Zeller and the present author) in two papers (ZELLER and TÓTH 1979, 1985). The present account is the 3rd (final) part on the specimens from his bequest which is devoted also to the memory of Lídia Zeller, the coauthor of the previous two parts (L. Zeller passed away in 1997).