A New Record and New Localities for the Genus Sclerogaster R.Hesse in Turkey

This paper aims to make a contribution to the mycobiota of Turkey and based on two hypogeous species belonging to the order Boletales, Sclerogaster candidus (Tul. & C.Tul.) Zeller & C.W.Dodge and Sclerogaster compactus (Tul. & C. Tul.) Sacc. The first taxon is reported as new record for the macromycota of Turkey from Tonya district of Trabzon province. New localities from ？stanbul (Beykoz, ？ekmek？y and ？ile) province were given for the second one. A brief description of Sclerogaster candidus, including its ecologic, macroscopic and microscopic characters, and the original photographs of both taxa related to their macro and micromorphologies and the collection localities were provided