The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection.
Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country’s biodiversity and a leading source of data on the current state of the national flora. About 87% of all project data, i.e. 652,285 observations, are available under free licences (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC) and can be freely used in scientific, educational and environmental activities.
The annotated list of macromycetes collected in 2007–2011 in the Pechory District of the Pskov Region during our investigation of the macrofungi of the grassland communities on calcareous soils is presented. It includes 55 species (7 — Ascomycota, 48 — Basidiomycota), among which 42 species and 1 variety are new to the Pskov Region, including 3 species new to Russia, i. e. Conocybe pulchra, Entoloma glaucobasis, E. ochromicaceum (the descriptions and illustrations of these species are provided). The studied communities are dominated by Conocybe and Entoloma, but the members of typical «grassland» genera Camarophyllopsis, Dermoloma, Geoglossum, Hemimycena, Hygrocybe, Mycenella were also found there.
The annotated list of agaricoid basidiomycetes collected in the vicinities of the field research station of Laboratory of population ecology of the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS is provided. The collection places are situated in the Staritsa and Zubtsov Districts of the Tver Region. The list includes 38 species and 3 varieties not reported in earlier publications for the Tver Region, 20 species among them belonging to the Entolomataceae. Entoloma moguntinum and E. rhombisporum var. floccipes are reported for the first time for Russia. Their descriptions, graphic drawings and photographs are provided. E. moguntinum is recorded for the Pskov Region also. Photographs of Cystoderma fallax, Entoloma asprellum, E. chalybeum, E. poliopus var. poliopus, E. rhombisporum var. floccipes are provided.
Annotated list of 344 species of aphyllophoraceous fungi of the Pskov Region, based on the authors’ collections, literature records and herbarium specimens (LE) is provided. 17 rare species are recommended for including into Red Data Book of the Pskov Region.
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