Lichens of the Polish Carpathians

Urszula Bielczyk; Marian Wysocki

doi:10.15468/ume3qe

Lichens of the Polish Carpathians

Citation

Bielczyk U, Wysocki M (2024). Lichens of the Polish Carpathians. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ume3qe accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-18.

Description

The Carpathian Mountains are the center of lichen species diversity in Poland. They are a refuge for many rare species not only on a national scale but also within their entire ranges. The database contains a taxonomically and nomenclatural revised list of lichens and associated fungi reported from the Polish Carpathians up to 2003. The taxonomic concept is based on monographic studies, and the nomenclature of taxa generally follows Index Fungorum (2020) and MycoBank databases (2020). The distribution data for each species was also verified. For each species, the distribution at the level of macro- and mesoregions is given according to the physical-geographical regionalization of the Carpathians (Kondracki 1989). Next to each species within a region, there are references to source materials. These are bibliographic citations or acronyms of herbaria (KRAM, KRA, MIN, UGDA, OPUN) where unpublished herbarium specimens are available. The initial source material was a checklist by Bielczyk (2003). Critical analysis of this study made it possible to indicate species that should be excluded from the list of lichens of the Polish Carpathians or some regions, due to their misidentification or nomenclatural changes. It should be noted that since 2003 the list of Carpathian lichens has grown significantly (cf. Bielczyk et al. 2020).

Taxonomic Coverages

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Fungi
rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Poland

Bibliographic Citations

Bielczyk U. (Ed.). 2003. The lichens and allied fungi of the Polish Carpathians – an annotated checklist, 342 pp. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków. -
Bielczyk U., Czarnota P., Hollitzer-Zielińska D., Śliwa L. 2020. Uzupełnienia i poprawki do listy porostów i grzybów naporostowych polskich Karpat. Fragm. Flor. et Geobot. Pol. 22(2): 323‒357. -
Kondracki J. 1989. Karpaty. Wyd. 2. 261 pp. Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, Warszawa. -

Contacts

Urszula Bielczyk
originator
position: Retired Researcher
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
Lubicz 46
Kraków
31-512
Małopolskie
PL
email: urszula.bielczyk@e.up.krakow.pl

Marian Wysocki
originator
position: Data Technician
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
Lubicz 46
Kraków
31-512
Małopolskie
PL
email: m.wysocki@botany.pl

Urszula Bielczyk
metadata author
position: Retired Researcher
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
Lubicz 46
Kraków
31-512
Małopolskie
PL
email: urszula.bielczyk@e.up.krakow.pl

Piotr Tykarski
editor
position: assistant professor
Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
Żwirki i Wigury 101
Warszawa
02-089
Mazowieckie
PL
email: p.tykarski@uw.edu.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3259-8273

Lucyna Śliwa
administrative point of contact
position: Director
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
Lubicz 46
Kraków
31-512
Małopolskie
PL
email: l.sliwa@botany.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7662-1415