New records of lichens and allied fungi from the Leningrad Region, Russia. IV

Abstract

Fourteen species of lichen-forming, fifteen lichenicolous and one non-lichenized calicioid fungus are reported from the Leningrad Region. Tremella coppinsii, Verrucaria cambrini, V. fusconigrescens and V. nigroumbrina are reported for the first time for Russia; Cheiromycina petri is new to the European Russia; Chaenothecopsis haematopus, Hymenelia epulotica, Muellerella hospitans and Tremella cladoniae are new to the North-Western European Russia; Briancoppinsia cytospora, Cercidospora epipolytropa, Cornutispora lichenicola, Epicladonia simplex, Lichenoconium xanthoriae, Lichenosticta alcicornaria, Phaeopyxis punctum and Syzygospora physciacearum are new to the Leningrad Region. The most noteworthy records are briefly discussed.