tailieunhanh - New lichen records from Georgia

Four of the reported taxa were recorded in Vashlovani Protected Areas, East Georgia. The paper also presents a brief summary of lichen studies in Georgia since the beginning of the 19th century with all important literature sources cited. | Research Note Turk J Bot 34 (2010) 549-553 © TÜBİTAK doi: New lichen records from Georgia Tzimi INASHVILI1, Ketevan BATSATSASHVILI2 1 Tbilisi Botanical Garden and Institute of Botany, Department of Cryptogams and Fungi, 1 Botanikuri St., 0105 Tbilisi - GEORGIA 2Ilia State University, Institute of Ecology, 32 Chavchavadze Av., 0179 Tbilisi - GEORGIA Received: Accepted: Abstract: New records of the following 17 lichen taxa are reported from Georgia: Aspicilia esculenta (Pall.) Flagey, Caloplaca lobulata (Flörke) Hellb., Cladonia caespiticia (Pers.) Flörke, Hypogymnia farinacea Zopf, H. subduplicata (Rass.) Rass., Lecidella stigmatea (Ach.) Hertel & Leuckert, Leptorhaphis lucida Körb., Parmelia saxatilis (L.) Ach. var. divaricata Delise ex Nyl., Parmotrema arnoldii (Du Rietz) Hale, Phaeophyscia hirsuta Mereschk., Physcia biziana (.) Zahlbr., Physconia detersa (Nyl.) Poelt, Ramalina obtusata (Arnold) Bitter, Squamarina gypsacea (Sm.) Poelt, Toninia sedifolia (Scop.) Timdal, Umbilicaria cylindrica (L.) Delise ex Duby var. tornata (Ach.) Nyl., and Xanthoparmelia tinctina (Maheu & ) Hale. Four of the reported taxa were recorded in Vashlovani Protected Areas, East Georgia. The paper also presents a brief summary of lichen studies in Georgia since the beginning of the 19th century with all important literature sources cited. Key words: Lichens, new records, Vashlovani Protected Areas, Georgia, Caucasus Introduction Investigation of Georgia’s lichen flora started at the beginning of the 19th century. Lichen species collected in Georgia were first mentioned by Acharius (1810). Species from Georgia (mainly from the surroundings of Tbilisi) are mentioned by Belanger (1825-29), Buhse (1860), Rabenhorst (1871), and Vainio (1887, 1894). Later lichen collections from various regions of the country were thoroughly analysed by Vainio (1899), Jatta (1900), and Radde (1901). Lichenological studies conducted by Elenkin in

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• New lichen records
• New records
• Vashlovani Protected Areas
• Aspicilia esculenta
• Caloplaca lobulata
• Cladonia caespiticia