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

Occurrences in Hungary, habitats: April-October, dry, sandy soil, in Robinia woods occupying its original habitat, often near wood-stacks. Distribution, frequency: In Southern and Eastern Europe, rare all over Europe (JÜLICH 1984); until the 1990s not rare on the Hungarian Great Plain. However, during the last decade its population size has been decreasing considerably. Hungarian red list category: 2. Justification: The largest population of the species is supposed to be in Hungary, but its size has been strongly decreasing. Known Hungarian records: BABOS (1999): Bugac: Ősborókás (in Junipero-Populetum albae), Csévharaszt (in Junipero-Populetum albae), Pálmonostora, Petőfiszállás: Szentkút, Alsópakony, Asotthalom (in solo arenoso), Gyál, Felsőpakony, Hetényegyháza (in silva arenosa), Kecskemét: Kisfái, Kecskemét: Nagynyír, Opusztaszer: Hantháza. BP: Monor (ad terram arenosam), Főt, Tápiószecső, Pilis, Szeged, Farmos (ad marginem robineti), Dóc, Délegyháza (ad marginem robineti), Budapest: Pestszentlőrinc (in robineto), Budapest: Rákoshegy (in robineto, solo arenoso). Private collection of F. Pál-Fám: Fülöpháza. Private collection of B. Dima: Alsónémedi. Cantharellus melanoxeros Desm. (Cantharellales, Cantharellaceae) Fruit-body: consists of cap-like and stem-like parts. Cap: 2-5 cm diameter, fleshy, irregularly wavy edge, spreading, later becoming funnel-shaped, ochraceous yellow or ochraceous brown. Hymenium: wrinkled, decurrent, forking, can be anatomising, rose or violet-grey. Stem: cylindrical, can be pressed, similar but darker than the cap, blackening if damaged. Flesh: creamy, blackening mainly under the surface and in the stem when cut, its flavour and scent is pleasant. Life-strategy: mycorrhiza (mainly with Fagus, later Quercus sp.). Occurrences in Hungary, habitats: From September to October, in beech and oak forests of acidic soil. Thermophilous species, producing its fruit-bodies in protected, sunny places on nutrient poor brown forest soil. Distribution, frequency: Not rare in Southern Europe, but in Northern and Western Europe only a few records are known (KRIEGLSTEINER 2000). European endemism (DAHLBERG and CRONEBORG 2003). Hungarian red list category: 1.