HISTORY OF TAXONOMIC MYCOLOGY IN BELARUS:
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY

Heterobasidioid fungi
(Tremellomycetes, Dacrymycetes, Basidiomycetes pro parte, and incertae sedis)

The book by Jundziłł (1830) included the entries of 7 species, possibly found in Belarus: Hydnum gelatinosum, Merisma viscosum, 2 Dacrymyces species, and 3 Tremella species. The record data on heterobasidiomycetes were included in a paper by Błoński (1888), where he listed 5 species from the genera Calocera, Exidia, and Tremella found in Belavezhskaya Pushcha forests. Later he published 8 species from the genera Auricularia, Calocera, Dacrymyces (‘Dacryomyces'), Exidia, Tremella, Tremellodon, and Ulocolla (Błoński, 1989).

Eight species from the genera Calocera, Dacrymyces (‘Dacryomyces'), Exidia, Tremella, and Tremellodon were mentioned in the list by Kastory (1912). Single Tremella species was reported by Dorogin (1912).

A species of Exidia was published by Lebedeva (1925, Zweites...). Two heterobasidioid fungi were reported by Kuprevich (1931, Fungi...). Single Calocera species was reported by Tumiłowiczówna (1935).

A ‘false polypore' Aporpium caryae (syn. Aporpium canescens) was mentioned by Komarova (1955), then described in Komarova's handbook (1964), reported by Mikhalevich (1968, Polyporaceae…) and Komarova et al. (1968). Golovko (1968) listed 2 species from the genera Aporpium and Tremellodon. Calocera viscosa was described and illustrated by Serzhanina and Zmitrovich (1978; 1986). Several species from the yeast genera Cryptococcus and Trichosporon (Tremellomycetes), isolated from peat soil, were reported by Pristrom (1974), with description of morphological and physiological features.

Illustration of Calocera viscosa in Serzhanina and Zmitrovich (1986)

Yurchenko reported 3 Tulasnella (incertae sedis in Basidiomycota) species (2003: 61; 2006: 340).

Three main taxonomic works on heterobasidioid fungi of Belarus were issued in last decades. The first paper reported 18 species from the genera Auricularia, Calocera, Dacrymyces, Exidia, Tremella, and Tremellodon, 13 of which were supplied by morphological diagnoses and 3 by micromorphology figures (Serzhanina & Gapienko, 1981). The second source is a terminological brochure by Serzhanina (1991) containing a list of 21 species, including the taxa which are provisory for Belarus mycobiota. A list of 17 species stored in MSK herbarium was published in 2006 (Parfenov & Gapienko, 2006).

Taxonomic novelties. Komarova (1964: 68) proposed a new name Aporpium caryae f. macropora (Komarova) Komarova with basionym Tyromyces resinascens f. macroporus Komarova.