Macromycetes Diversity of Sharr Mountains in Kosovo

Our study in the Sharr Mountains of Kosovo began in 2017 and included 20 surveyed sites. The predominant vegetation consists of beech and oak forests, but also a forest of Pinus heldreichii, the Balkan endemic pine species. A total of 244 macromycete species were recorded, of which 211 belong to the Basidiomycota phylum and 33 to the Ascomycota phylum. Newly recorded in Kosovo are 95 species. Several species, such as Zeus olympuis, Antrodia ramentacea, Heterosphaeria patella, Kneif iella abdita and Resupinatus striatulus, are among the rarely recorded ones.