Schlechtendalia 25 (2013) 13 A list of type specimens in the fungal reference collection of the Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture (IRAN), Iran Mehrdad ABBASI & Faezeh ALIABADI Abstract: Abbasi, M. & Aliabadi, F. 2013: A list of type specimens in the fungal reference collection of the Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture (IRAN), Iran. Schlechtendalia 25: 13–38. The present work is a survey of type collections of fungi currently deposited at the herbarium IRAN (Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture, Iran). Zusammenfassung: Abbasi, M. & Aliabadi, F. 2013: Liste von Typuskollektionen der Pilzreferenzsammlung des Ministeriums der Jihad-e Agriculture (IRAN), Iran. Schlechtendalia 25: 13–38. Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine Übersich der gegenwärtig im Herbarium IRAN (Ministerium der Jihad-e Agriculture, Iran) aufbewahrten Pilztypen. Key words: Fungi, typus, Islamic Republik Iran. Published online 24 Jan. 2013 Introduction The dried fungal reference collection of the Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture (IRAN) is the only registered reference collection of fungi and lichens in Iran. The date of foundation of the IRAN collection is not exactly clear but the first list of fungi preserved in this collection was published in 1941 (Petrak & Esfandiari 1941), it means that collection was active before 1941 and this is against Ershad's explanation who mentioned the foundation date of collection as 1945 (refere to Ershad 1995). Since 1941 IRAN dried fungal reference collection was active and the number of specimens being increased year after year. At present the collection located in the botany department of the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran and including more than 16000 dried specimens. During the 50 th anniversary of the collection, list of type specimens was published in anniversary book (Abbasi 1995). Since that time, several type and isotype specimens have been added to the collection and it is necessary to renew the 1995 edition. List of type specimens at IRAN (dried fungal reference collection) Data of the designated type specimens were directly copied from original labels and compared with the protologues of the original descriptions. Corrections were done when necessary. For each type specimen, the name of the taxon, place of publication, host name, collection site, date of collection, name of collector(s), collection number in IRAN and the particular class of type (viz., holotype, isotype, paratyp, topotype and etc.) are included. The list is alphabetically arranged according to the scientific names of the taxa concerned. Abbreviations of authors of fungal and plant names are given according to Kirk & Ansell (1992) and Brumitt and Powell (1992), respectively. The following list contains 324 type specimens deposited at IRAN fungal reference collection. The list has two parts. In part A, only Iranian type specimens are listed. This part contains 134 specimens which are mostly holotypes. The second part (B) contains 190 foreign type specimens from other countries. Specimens listed in this part are mostly isotype or paratype. As mentioned above the specimens in two parts have been alphabetically listed based on scientific name of fungi.