Scientific publications

Sixty two important findings of 34 species of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and fungi in the Murmansk Region are reported. The findings were considered important if they were for the first time recorded in the area, red-listed in Russia and/or Murmansk Region, new for certain protected areas, or represented in not more than five locations in the Murmansk Region, or the northernmost records of the species in the world or in Europe. The lichen Sarcosagium campestre was found in the region for the first time; the fungus Globulicium hiemale was the first reliable record from the Murmansk Region; four species of fungi (Byssocorticium atrovirens, Geoglossum umbratile, Kurtia argillacea, Pseudotomentella nigra) were found in the region for the second time. New localities were found for five species of lichens (Enchylium limosum, Fuscopannaria confusa, Lecidea promiscua, Rhizocarpon cinereonigrum, Toninia squalida). A rare orchid species Calypso bulbosa was found in the protected area “Kovdskye listvennitsy (Kovda Larches)”. Moss species Andreaea obovata and Buxbaumia aphylla were for the first time recorded from the nature monument “Baranii Lob u ozera Semenovskoye (Roche moutonnée at Lake Semenovskoye)”. Two species of bryophytes (Buxbaumia aphylla, Peltolepis quadrata) and three species of vascular plants (Beckwithia glacialis, Veronica fruticans, Woodsia glabella) were found in the planned nature monument “Ushchel’e Yuzhnoye (South Cross-passing Gorge)”. Six red-listed species (Carex lapponica, C. laxa, Eriophorum gracile, Isoёtes echinospora, Pinguicula villosa, Ranunculus gmelinii) were found in the upper and/or middle course of the Ponoy River. New data are reported about the nationally and regionally red-listed species Bryoria fremontii, Cotoneaster cinnabarinus, and Rhodiola rosea), and about 7 more species listed in the Red Data Book of the Murmansk Region.