Cultural and enzymatic activity studies of a pathogenic wood-decaying fungus Fomitiporia hippophaeicola (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota), recollected in the Eastern Caucasus.

Stenotrophic basidiomycete fungus Fomitiporia hippophaeicola, being a wood-decaying pathogen of sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides), has been recollected after 48 years in the Eastern Caucasus during the mycological and phytopathological investigations in the inner-mountainous part of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The identity of the species was confirmed by both morphological and ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 nrDNA data.