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

Elaphomyces virgatosporus Hollós (Elaphomycetales, Elaphomycetaceae) Fruit-body, spherical or flattened, often pitted, depressed, hazelnut-walnut sized, 8-16 mm diam. Rind (peridium) coal-black, dull, finely verrucose, hard and fragile. In cross section the inner rind is white, dirty white, often more thin than the outer rind. The fruit-body formed in the soil, often deep in the soil, mostly at the border of humus and clay layers. Gieba: cotton-like white at the beginning, then umber-brown when ripe. Spore: brown, densely covered by parallel wavy ribs. Life-strategy: mycorrhiza. Occurrences in Hungary, habitats: during nearly the whole year, in QuercoCarpinetum, or under beech. Distribution, frequency: majority of records originates from Hungary. It is reported from Sweden and the USA also. Hungarian red list category: 1. Justification: Its distribution is mainly restricted to the Carpathian Basin. The number of known sites is very low. Its natural habitats usually overstrained by game breeding. As it occurs together with valuable truffles (Tuber aestivum, T. brumale), occasionally truffle-pickers' soil-disturbance also damages its localities. According to Trappe (pers. comm.) it is an ancient, relict species originating from ages prior to the continental drift. Known Hungarian records: HOLLOS (1911, 1933): Litke (Carpino-Fagetum), Szekszárd: Kisbükk-erdő. BRATEK etal. (1992, 1999): Gerecse: Malomvölgy. BRATEK etal. (1999): Aggteleki-karszt: Szelcepuszta, Börzsöny: Kemence (Querco-Carpinetum), Kend (Melittio-Fagetum). Private collection of Z. Lukács: Budai-hegység (silva mixta with Fagus sylvatica). Endoptychum agaricoides Czern. (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) Fruit-body: 2-12 cm high, 2-7(-20) cm in diameter. Conical, reminiscent of red pepper (paprika). Surface when young covered by white, later a more or less ochre-colour veil, which is tearing into radial lobes at the basis of fruit-body when ripe. Having a shorter or longer stem, continued as a twisted axis inside the fruit-body. Inside the fruit-body: vertical plates divide it into chambers. Internal part is yellowish brown or green when young, later brown.