THE INVENTORY AND INSERATION BELARUSIAN LICHEN SAMPLES OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE XX CENTURY IN THE HERBARIUM OF THE BOTANICAL INSTITUTE V. L. KOMAROVA RAS (LE)

Abstract

Herbarium is the main tool in the study of biological diversity and reliable source of information for systematic processing species of any territory. In this regard, the inventory Belarusian herbarium specimens of the first quarter of the 20th century, will allow to start and complement the fundamental work «Flora of lichens Belarus»

The objects of study were Belarusian herbarium specimens stored in the collections of lichens laboratory lichenology and bryology BIN RAS. A result of processing in herbarium specimens lichenological herbarium (LE) found that the total number of samples is 1502, relating to 260 the lichen species and closely related fungi. On the territory of Belarus species collected from 67 localities, 4 regions and 31 administrative districts. The largest number of samples collected V. P. Savic – 839. For the first time Belarus are 4 new taxons, lichens: Biatora helvola and Leptogium teretiusculum, lichenicolous fungi: Abrothallus peyritschii and Plectocarpon lichenum. During the inventory of lichens first quarter of the 20th century herbarium collections found 25 new localities of 11 species of lichens recorded in the 4-th edition of the Red Book of Belarus. The data obtained clarify distribution of species within Belarus.