NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee
NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee
NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee
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1. First period: until 1860<br />
In this early period <strong>of</strong> time <strong>the</strong>re is no sign <strong>of</strong> Iranian fungi in <strong>the</strong> literature and in case <strong>the</strong>re<br />
was anything published, it was never noticed by later mycologists.<br />
2. Second period: from 1860 to 1941<br />
In fact study on Iranian fungi was started in this period. In this period all publications on Iranian<br />
fungi belong to foreign researchers. These in chronological order are listed here.<br />
1. The first publication on Iranian fungi is published by two European botanists, E. Boissier<br />
and F. Buhse, where 33 fungal species, mostly cap fungi, are named. The fungi in this<br />
publication (Boissier & Buhse 1860) were collected by F. Buhse.<br />
2. Rabenhorst (1871) authored <strong>the</strong> second publication based on fungi collected by C.<br />
Haussknecht during two excursions in Iran.<br />
3. M.C. Cooke in a publication (Cooke 1880) toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> fungi <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
world named eight Iranian species collected from Kurdistan and Loristan provinces.<br />
4. Ano<strong>the</strong>r contributor to Iranian mycology was Wettstein (1885) who studied Iranian<br />
fungi collected by J.F. Polak and Th. Pitcher.<br />
5. Masse (1899) published a list <strong>of</strong> various fungi containing two Iranian species.<br />
6. Study <strong>of</strong> Iranian fungi was continued more seriously when J. Bornmüller, famous<br />
botanist, started his excursions in <strong>Asian</strong> countries. This scientist collected fungi toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />
with plants. The material collected by Bornmüller were given to famous mycologists<br />
such as P. Magnus and H. Sydow. Bornmüller himself reported part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fungi he<br />
collected toge<strong>the</strong>r with plants in two publications (Bornmüller 1908, 1911). Ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fungi were reported by Sydow & Sydow (1908a, 1908b). The rest and <strong>the</strong><br />
majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fungi were identified by P. Magnus and published in six papers (Magnus<br />
1896, 1899, 1899, 1903, 1912).<br />
7. Worth to mention that Chatin (1897) reported two species <strong>of</strong> Iranian truffles.<br />
8. Ano<strong>the</strong>r mycologist who published three Iranian fungal species based on material<br />
collected by O. Paulsen from central Asia and Iran was Rostrup (1908).
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