MHA Herbarium: Collections of mosses from Yana-Indigirka Region, Yakutia, Russia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Skvortsov Herbarium of the Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences (MHA) in the 1945-1980s dealt with vascular plants and only scattered occasional collections of bryophytes and lichens were accumulated there without special arrangement. Since the late 1980s, the bryophyte studies in the MHA Herbarium became permanent and several projects were started since then, including the currently conducted "Moss Flora of Russia". There are many white spots on the map of bryophyte exploration of Russia, but one of the most conspicuous was Yakutia, the largest administrative unit of Russia, covering 3,081,000 km². Yana-Indigirka Region, originally defined as a floristic region, includes Verkhoyansky Range and some smaller adjacent mountain areas. It

SUBMITTER: Ignatov MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8799630 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature