‘Hot’ and ‘white’ spots of lichen diversity of the Ukrainian plains (after geobotanical subprovinces and administrative oblasts)

Podolian-Middle-Dnieper geobotanical subprovince of Forest-Steppe zone and the belts Artemisia-Gramineae Steppes grass-Stipeta-Festuca Priazov Black Sea Steppe are most well studied among twelve subprovinces Ukrainian plains, while lack information on lichen species diversity found to be in Middle Russian Forest belt Middle-Don this territory. Among twenty three administrative oblasts plains situated geobotanic zones highest is Kherson oblast (464 species), Mykolaiv (389 species) zone, as Kharkiv (332 basis Fourth checklist lichen-forming lichenicolous fungi including 2,106 total lichens. The lower hitherto recorded from Rightbank Polessian (the 296 Zhytomyr oblast) Baltic (281 Lviv (287 Khmelnytsk territory mentioned. Insufficient level data for Podolian-Bessarabian Stipeta-Festuca zone. same rather Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia Sumy zones; Poltava Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Donetsk Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk List rarest taxa regionally unique group (hitherto known single or a few localities) proposed candidates Red Regional lists 22 far whole nature protection activity Ukraine provided.