The genus Daldinia in Guilan province (N Iran)

In order to identify daldinia species in guilan province, several specimens were collected during 2011–13. a total of six taxa, including daldinia caldariorum (on morus alba); d. childiae (on parrotia persica, pterocarya fraxinifolia, morus alba, quercus sp., prunus sp., citrus sinensis, gleditschia caspica, buxus sempervirens, carpinis betulus and alnus subcordata); d. gelatinoides (on m. alba); d. cf. loculata (on fallen wood); d. pyrenaica (on b. sempervirens and pt. fraxinifolia), and d. vernicosa (on ulmus sp., ficus sp., and p. persica), were identified. all identified species are new to the iranian mycobiota.