Based on an ITS sequence provided by S. Masaphy from the holotype (MS1-52, Applied Microbiology and Mycology Department, MIGAL, Kiryat Shmona and Tel Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel) and available in GenBank as “Morchella crassipes” (No. GU589858, cited in the protolog; Clowez 2012), M. galilaea was determined to correspond to Mes-16 (FIG. 1). It is a well characterized species, illustrated from a greenhouse in Turkey by Taşkın et al. (2012:448, FIG. 2C). The cosmopolitan distribution of M. galilaea, for example Hawaii (GenBank Nos. M308-M310), India (AJ539479, GQ228462 etc.), New Zealand (JF423317), Java (M685), China (HKAS55839) and Africa (EU701000) (O'Donnell et al. 2011; Du et al. 2012b) is likely due to anthropogenic activities and a unified taxonomy