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Current Research in Environmental and Applied Mycology, vol.10, no.1, pp.443-456, 2020 (Scopus)
Trichoglossum hirsutum, a rare and noteworthy species in the genus Trichoglossum, has been previously collected only from Black Sea Region in Turkey. This work presents new findings on distribution of four specimens identified as T. hirsutum, the second record from Aegean and Mediterranean Region of Turkey, using morphology and nrITS sequence analysis. In addition, T. hirsutum was identified within forest dominated by the relict endemic Liquidambar orientalis, the first reported association with this host. Detailed morphological description, macro photographs and drawings of micro structures of the species studied have been presented. The potential distribution map for T. hirsutum was produced by maximum entropy (MaxEnt) analyses. Twenty environmental variables were used to model its distribution and potential habitat. The relative importance of the environmental variables for modeling was evaluated using the Jackknife test. Model performance was evaluated using repeated 90/10 training/test data partitions using the area under curve (AUC). The obtained model was strongly supported by measurements. Our study found that solar lighting index, diurnal temperature range and ruggedness played a key role in the distribution of T. hirsutum.