Catalogue of specimens of Asplenium viride Huds. (Aspleniaseae, Polypodiopsida, Polypodiophyta) deposited in the State Museum of Natural History NASU, Lviv, Ukraine

Abstract

Asplenium viride Huds. is known as “the Green Spleenwort, because of its green stipes and rachides. This feature easily distinguishes this species from the very similar-looking Maidenhair Spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes. A. viride is a native species of northern and western North America and northern Europe and Asia. It is a grassy winter-green perennial, growing on calcareous rock. Asplenium viride – circumpolar boreal species. Its habitats are timed to petrophilic communities on the mesic to moist crevices in limestone and other basic rocks from the lowland and steppe to subalpine zones (up to 4,000 m above sea level). In Ukraine this species occurs mainly in Carpathians and Crimean Mountains, and also known from Roztochchia nature region (Безсмертна, Перегрим, Вашека, 2011, Вашека, Безсмертна, 2012). Outside Ukraine the species has nature protection status in Lithuania and Russian Federation (Nizhny Novgorod region). In addition A. viride is species requiring protection at the regional level for Lviv region with nature protection status as critically endangered species (CR) (Кагало, Сичак, 2014). There are 67 herbarium specimens of A. viride in the collection of vascular plants herbarium of Museum, they are all represented in the electronic database "Biodiversity of Ukraine". Geography of herbarium collections of A. viride, except modern territory of Ukraine (Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi region), presented by Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Russian Federation (North Ossetia). Chronology of collections of herbarium embraces the period from 1860 to 2009 years. Thus the oldest specimens (second half of ХІХ– beginning of ХХ century) are collected on territory of Poland, Slovakia and Romania. The list of collectors includes 30 persons, in particular: L. Tasienkevych (9 specimens), G. Kozii (7), А. Rehman (5), K. Malynovskyi (4), I. Vainahii (3), W. Dzieduszycki (3), A. Lazebna (3), M. Slobodian (3) and others. Based on literature analysis (Andrzejowski, 1869, Rehman, 1870, Tomaschek, 1862, 1866, Trusz, 1881, 1882 etc.) revealed links about findings of A. viride (Kulczyński, Kozikowski, Wilczyński, 1926), which are confirmed by herbarium specimens in Museum collection.