Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Young, closed fruit bodies are from 3–4 cm across, white, ovoid, oval–shaped, sometimes spherical. Mature ones are large up to 30 cm long. Peridium is three–layered, the outer and inner layers are pruinose and smooth, the middle layer is gelatinous. Peridium splitting into 2–4 parts: lobes which remain at the base of the fruit body having the shape of cup–like volva. Receptacle consists cylindrical, 15–20 x ...
Category. CR – Critically Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are from 2–10 cm across, greyish, spherical when young. Exoperidium is thick, scaly, splitting into 10–12 pointed rays/lobes. Endoperidium is spherical or flat on the top, greyish brown or silver glance, set on 3–5 mm long, cylindrical, short stalks. Several minor, round pores open on the upper part of the endoperidium. Gleba is brown. Capillitium consists of simple or slightly branched filaments which...
Category. DD – Data Deficient.
Brief description. Young fruit bodies are from 2–3 cm across, acuminate, egg–shaped. Peridium is yellowish, pruinose covers the fine white membrane under which the reddish or pink stipe is situated. Stipe is 5–10 cm long, 1cm width, reddish, it turns into acuminate capitulum on the top. Capitulum is covered with slime, brown, olive–coloured and smooth gleba which has unpleasant, disgusting smell. Spores are 3,5–4,5 x 1,5–2...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are 3–4 cm across, oviform or egg– shaped when young. Peridium is white, tears into lobes. Receptacle is cylindrical, stuffed, spongy. Stipe is 10–15 cm long, 0,4–1 cm in width, orange–yellowish, surmounted by the narrow conical or reddish–orange head/capitulum. Capitulum is covered with slime, olive–coloured gleba, that has unpleasant, disgusting smell. Spores are 4–5 x 1,5–2,...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Young fruit body is up to 3 cm across white, yellowish, subglobose. Peridium is membranous, when tears the stipe protrudes. Cap is from 1 to 6 cm across, yellowish, radially cracked, squarrose with lamelliform lobes. Gills are 0,6–0,1 cm, width, when mature black, crumbling, with wavy margins, covered with hymenium. Stipe is 6–25 x 0,5–2 cm white, yellowish, fleshy when young. When mature it is woody, covered with minor, yello...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit body is 0,5–0,8 m across, globose, consisting of numerous branched fan–shaped caps on short stipes, which are attached to convex, thickened bulbous main stipe. Caps are hemispherical, imbricate, fleshy. When dry it is woody, the surface is brownish or light brown, wrinkled, with minor scales without shine. The margins are wavy. Flesh is firm fleshy with light colouring. When cut it fastly darkens getting black colour. It has ...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is 10–18 cm across, the colour varies from grey to brownish, brown in the centre, spherical, then hemispherical, cracked, covered with large, seldom scales. Flesh is white, reddens when cut. Gills are free, lanceolate, with colarium, at first white then redish. Stipe is 10–25 x 1,5–2 cm high, light brown, with thickened bulb at the base. The ring is white, then brownish with scales. Spore print is white. Spores are 13,5&n...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is 4–10 cm across, white with dark colouring in the centre, at first egg–shaped. When mature it is umbelliform, the upper part of which is covered with triangled, white scales. The margins of the cap are fimbriate. Gills are white, crowded, free. Flesh is white, when cut at the stipe base it reddens. It has smell of radish. Stipe 5–10 x 0,5–1 cm, at first dirty white, then brown, bulbous thickened at the base up to ...
Category. CR – Critically Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is 15–25 cm across, white, grey or greyish– brown in the centre, with whitish margins, velvety, filamentous, covered with scales. Flesh is white and fleshy. When mature it gets light brown colouring. It has pleasant taste and smell. Gills are white when fresh, the dry ones are light brown, free, crowded, with straight margins. Stipe is 5–8 x 1–2 cm long, central, cylindrical with longish root, slightly na...
Category. CR – Critically Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are annual, grow in large groups up to 25 cm across, sometimes longish set on short stipe or attached to the wood. When young they are white with pink colouring, globose or pear–shaped. The colour of the dry surface varies from yellow to brownish covered with rough, crooked and prickly appendix. Flesh is fresh, white, yellowish when dry. Hymenophore is spinulose. The prickles are long, white with pink colouring. W...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are 4–15 cm, when young white, pink, when mature yellowish, coral branched with thick stalky base, fleshy when fresh. Dry ones are crumbling. Flesh is white, filamentous with pleasant mushroom odour. Hymenophore is spinulose. The prickles are from 5 to 10 mm long, conical. The colour varies from white to light brown. Spores are 5–6,5 x 4,5–6 µm, smooth, broad ellipsoid or spherical, amyloid.
Distribution. G...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Fruit body is 3–5 cm long. Cap is from 1 to 3 cm across, with free or unfixed margins, the upper part is black, the lower part is greyish, saddle–shaped, double–lobed. Sporosacs (asci) are 310– 340 x 15–17,5 µm, cylindrical. Paraphysis are 315–350 x 2,5 mkm, light brown, filamentous, widen from 5 to 7 mm on the edges. Spores are 19–22 x 14–17 µm, oblong–elliptic, with flat edges,...
Category. CR – Critically Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are 5–15 x 3–8 cm, white, yellowish, yellow–brownish or ash–grey. Wintering fruit bodies are black, ungulate, pulvinate, sometimes spread, annual. At first the surface of the cap is velvety, finely pubescens, then glabrous, smooth with equal, rounded margin. Flesh is yellowish with bitter taste and pleasant odour of anise. Hymenophore is cylindrical, consisting of thick–walled, globose, whi...
Category. CR – Critically Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is up to 20 cm width, 15 cm long and 6 cm thick at the base. At first it is light orange, redish–yellow and villiferous, then orange–brownish and even smooth. The fruit bodies are sided, luniform, pulvinate or flat. Flesh is light orange and soft when fresh. When dry it is yellowish colouring, hard or crumbling. Hymenophore is cylindrical, the gills are 0,5–1 cm long having the colour of the flesh. They consist...
Category. DD – Data Deficient.
Brief description. Young, closed fruit bodies are 4–5 cm across, white, yellowish, eventually light brown, ball–shaped or ovoid, sometimes cylindrical, smooth, with white mycelium at the base. Cap is from 4 to 5cm in diameter, conical, varies in colour from dark green to olive–colour with mucous gleba. It has strong unpleasant smell. White, bell–shaped netting falls from beneath the cap. Receptacle consists of cylindrical, 10–17...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Cap is 2–5 cm across yellowish, yellow–gold or light brown, at first expanding to flattened convex. There is a wide flat knob in the centre, sometimes covered with mealy surface often becoming indistinctly radially wrinkled with age and remnants of volva on the edges. Flesh is white or whitish, with yellowish colouring. It has unpleasant smell and mealy taste. Gills are white, when dry yellowish and adnexed to the stipe, crowded wit...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is very small, 0,5 –1,5 cm across, extended, with small knob, white. Gills are narrow, white, adnexed to the stipe. Stipe is filamentous, short, appears from sclerotiums. Sclerotiums are large with light orange–yellow colouring. They appear on the remnants of dry fruit bodies of agaricoid fungi. Spore print is white. Spores are 4–5 x 2,5 µm, hyaline.
Distribution. Generally in Europe, Asia, Northern America, Southe...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are 5–15 (20) x 0,5–4 (6) cm, at first light yellow, then with yellow, sometimes with whitish, yellowish or brownish colouring, clavate, cylindrical, linguiform, club–shaped, solitary or gregarious, often open, annual. The whole surface of the fruit body (except the lower part of the stipe) is covered with a layer of spores. Flesh is spongy, white, red–brownish when cut. Spores are 11–16 x 6–10 ...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is 8–25 cm across whitish–grey, pulvinate, even, fleshy, velvety, smooth, dry, sometimes slimy after rain. The lower part of the cap, which is yellow–green at first, is spongy–like with small pores, has redish–olive colouring with age. Flesh is white, whitish, firm, when cut at first turns red, then blue with unpleasant smell and sweet taste. Stipe is 6–9 x 5–11 µm, yellow–redish, with ...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Cap is 5–15 (30) cm across, pulvinate, fleshy. The colour often depends on biotope and ecological conditions – dark brown or greyish–brown or pale yellowish. The lower part of the cap, which is white at first, has spongy–like surface with small pores, whereas mature species have yellow–greenish colouring. The flesh is white, firm. Stipe is 7–12 x 2–6 cm long, robust, pallid white net: with conspicuously...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Fruit bodies are annual, with central or eccentric cap. Cap is from 5 to 15 cm across, ash–grey, then grey, globose, flat or light planoconvex, with sharp thick margin. The surface is covered with thin cuticle with age becoming cracked. Flesh is white at first, pink when cut, with violet colouring, then grey or ash–grey. Hymenophore is porous, the pores are one–layered, short, white, grey, ash–grey up to 4 mm long and c...
Category. EX – Extinct.
Brief description. Fruit body is 5 cm across, at first ovoid, closed, when mature collapses and remains in the lower part of the stipe as volva: mainly under the soil. It has double–layer membrane. Exoperidium is whitish, leather–like, fastly disappearing. Endoperidium is scaly, scaly– fibrous, attached to the woody stipe. When disrupt it is bell–shaped, smooth. Stipe is 15–20 cm long and 1cm thick, hirsute, brown. Capillitium is colou...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Fruit body is from 2 to 4 cm across, star–shaped, globose at the beginning, covered with multilayer peridium, which is torn on maturity. White, thick fleshy, cracked exoperidium is divided from 7 to 10 pointed rays/lobes. Endoperidium is grey or brown, globose, smooth or reticulate. When mature a minor truncated pore opens on the top of the fruit body. Capillitium is colourless, branched. Gleba is brown. Spores are from 8 to 11 µm i...
Category. DD – Data Deficient.
Brief description. Cap is 0,5 x 2,5 cm across, whitish, covered with clay–buff mealy coating, at first convex, then spherical. Gills are white, grey when mature, thick fleshy, singly and are often absent. Flesh is grey with unpleasant odour. Stipe is 1–4 x 0,2–0,5 cm long whitish–grey, velvety. Spore print is white. Spores are 4–6 x 3,5–4 µm, coloureless, smooth, broadly elliptical.
Distribution. Generally in Europe...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Cap is from 5 to 15 cm across, olive–coloured, greenish, whitish with darker markings in the centre, hemispherical, smooth with radiating fibres and with remnants of volva. Flesh, gills and stipe are white. Mature and dry fleshes have unpleasant odour. Stipe 6–12 x 1,5–2 cm long, has white membranous ring, it is convex at the base, with remnants of large, free saccate volva. Spore print is white. Spores are 8–12 x 7&ndas...
Category. VU– Vulnerable.
Brief description. Cap with 5–25 cm across is conspicuous for its scarlet to dark red colouring. It is thick fleshy, at first hemispherical, then flat, with smooth margins, with remnants of volva, the colour faded. Flesh is white with pleasant odour and sweet taste. Gills are free, thick, broad, white, yellowish when dry. Stipe is 7–20 x 1–3,5 cm long, white or whitish, with whitish or yellowish membranous ring. At the base it is bulbous convex ...
Category. NT – Near threatened.
Brief description. Cap is 2,5–11cm across, yellow, lemon– coloured, darker in the center, yellow–greyish, fleshy, at first extended, hemispherical, then flat with the remnants of volva which have the shape of white warts or rags. Flesh and gills are white. Gills are free, crowded, thin with lamellae. Stipe is 7–10 x 1–1,5 cm, white or whitish, with whitish narrow ring. At the base it is large bulb or with remnants of volva. Som...
Category. NT – Near threatened.
Brief description. Cap is 2–12 cm across, white, whitish, grey with darker colour in the center. When touched it gets yellow or yellowish– orange colouring. It is glabrous, smooth, velvety, shiny, thick fleshy, bell–shaped, spherical, eventually extended, flat in the centre, sometimes cracked with plicate margins and with partial remnants of the volva. Flesh is white, chrome–yellow in the stipe base and bright yellow when cut, with u...
Category. EN – Endangered.
Brief description. Cap is from 5 to 25 cm across, white, white greyish, when touched turns yellow. It is thick and fleshy, hemispheric, then spread, sometimes flat in the centre covered with pyramidal or tabular squama. Edges are plicated or smooth and are often with partial remnants of the volva. Flesh is white, pink when cut with pleasant mushroom taste and odour. Gills are narrow, at first pink eventually turn dark brown, almost black. Stipe is from 4–5...
CR B 1 ab(iii) + 2 ab(iii)
Category. Critically endangered species. Endemic of the Caucasus. In Armenia only one sub–population is known. The extent of occurrence and area of occupancy are less than 10 km2. The species faces decline of the extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy caused by changes in habitat conditions. It was included in the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia under Category 2: Rare species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern ...
CR B 1 ab(iii) + 2 ab(iii)
Category. Critically endangered species. One sub–population is known. The extent of occurrence and area of occupancy are less than 10 km2. The species faces decline of the extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy caused by changes in habitat conditions as a result of the intensity of agricultural activity. It was included in the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia under Category 1: Endangered species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES an...
EN B 1 ab(iii) + 2 ab(iii)
Category. Endangered species. Endemic of Transcaucasia. Only one sub–population is known. The extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy are less than 500 km2. The species faces decline of the extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy caused by changes in habitat conditions. In the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia it was included under Category 2: Rare species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Des...
CR B 1 ab(iii) + 2 ab(iii)
Category. Critically endangered species. The extent of occurrence and area of occupancy are less than 10 km2. It was included in the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia under Category 0: Apparently disappearing species, as it has not been collected in the Republic since 1940. But the population exists in Nakhichevan on the border of Armenia. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Glaucous perennial herb with...
CR B 1 ab(iii) + 2 ab(iii)
Category. Critically endangered species. Endemic of South Transcaucasia. In Armenia one sdub–population is known. The extent of occurrence and area of occupancy are less than 10 km2. The species faces decline of the extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy caused by changes in habitat conditions as a result of land development and climate change. It was included in the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia under Category 1: Endangered species. It i...
EN B 1 ab(i,ii,iii,iv) + 2 ab(i,ii,iii,iv)
Category. Endangered species. It occurs in two floristic regions. The extent of occurrence is less than 5000 km2, the area of occupancy is less than 500 km2. It is collected as firewood. In the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia it was included under Category 2: Rare species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Small trees with yellowish–brown bark. Crown formed by numerous virgate ...
EN B 1 ab(i,ii,iii,iv) + 2 ab(i,ii,iii,iv)
Category. Endangered species. It occurs only in one floristic region. The extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy are less than 500 km2. In the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia it was included under Category 2: Rare species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Small trees with purple bark. Crown formed by numerous virgate branches. Leaves alternate, squamiform, sessile, amplexoca...
VU* B 1 ab(iii) + 2 ab(iii)
Category. Vulnerable species. The extent of occurrence is less than 5000 km2, the area of occupancy is less than 500 km2. Since the general area is beyond the borders of the republic, the category of threat has been downgraded to VU. It was included in the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia under Category 1: Endangered species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Shrub or small tree 2–6 m, with fu...
EN B 1 ab(ii,iii,iv) + 2 ab(ii,iii,iv)
Category. Endangered species. Two sub–populations are known. The extent of occurrence is less than 5000 km2, the area of occupancy is less than 500 km2. The species grows in the area of intensive land development. In the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia it was included under Category 2: Rare species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Shrub, thorny because of acuminate shortened leaf...
VU B 1 ab(ii,iii,iv) + 2 ab(ii,iii,iv)
Category. Vulnerable species. The extent of occurrence is less than 20000 km2, the area of occupancy is less than 2000 km2. In the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia it was included under Category 3: Reducing species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Perennial herb up to 2 m. Rhizome polycephalous. Stems glaucous, glabrous. Leaves ovate, large, up to 12 x 20 cm. Flowers violet– greyi...
EN B 1 ab(i,ii,iii,v) + 2 ab(i,ii,iii,v)
Category. Endangered species. It occurs in one floristic region. The extent of occurrence and the area of occupancy are less than 500 km2. The species grows in the forest belt which is subjected to a perceptible anthropogenic influence. In the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia it was included under Category 4: Indefinite species. It is not included in the Annexes of CITES and that of the Bern Convention.
Description. Climbing dioecious shrub...
