Mushroom hunters in rural areas call and identify wild edible mushrooms on the basis of their local or common names. Local names of mushrooms are also widely used in folk medicine and particularly in shamanic and religious rituals. Linking of local names with
their respective scientific names is of fundamental importance for the exploitation of their market potential and for prevention of poisoning. We present a list of common names given to 45 wild edible mushroom taxa (28 basidiomycetes and 17 ascomycetes)
occurring in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, and Spain. The selected taxa are Agaricus campestris., A. crocodilinus, Amanita caesarea, Boletus aereus, B. edulis, B. pinophilus, B. reticulatus,
Calocybe gambosa, Calvatia gigantea Cantharellus cibarius, Craterellus cinereus, C. cornucopioides, C. tubaeformis, Cyclocybe cylindracea, Delastria rosea, Hydnum repandum, Infundibulicybe geotropa, Lactarius deliciosus, L. salmonicolor, L. sanguifluus,
L. semisanguifluus, Macrolepiota procera, Morchella elata, Picoa juniperi, P. lefebvrei, Pleurotus eryngii, P. eryngii var. ferulae, P. nebrodensis, P. ostreatus, Podaxis pistillaris, Russula cyanoxantha, R. virescens, Terfezia arenaria, T. boudieri, T. claveryi, T.
leptoderma, Tirmania nivea, T. pinoyi, Tuber aestivum, T. asa, T. borchii, T. brumale, T. magnatum, T. melanosporum, and T. oligospermum. The national and the regional common names (if known) are also reported
