VASCULAR PLANTS OF POLTAVA TOWN TERRITORIAL COMMUNE: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST

Abstract

The paper summarized the data about vascular plant species of Poltava town territorial commune formed in 2020 during decentralization reform within Poltava district of Poltava region. Based on own field research in 2006–2021 authors found on this territory 996 vascular plant species from 105 families. They include 911 species from 432 genera and 101 families which are resident taxa and belong to a stable components of a plant cover on this territory; they grow a long time here and have a regular self-healing ability. The annotated list of resident plant species with main their synonymic Latin names is indicated. 85 species from 77 genera and 32 families have also been found on the research territory but they are not to be able to accept as a stable component of a plant cover since they are locally distributed, occasionally escaped from cultivation or alien and are not naturalized here.These species were included in the additional list indicated in this paper too; they need a monitoring research for their status and further distribution on this territory. It was established that the territory of Poltava town commune has a great species diversity of vascular plants: 63,3% of resident taxa which were found in the Left Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine and 73,9% of resident taxa found in Poltava region have been discovered by authors. The features of Poltava town commune are high participation (61 species or 6,1%) rare vascular plant species – 14 from «The Red Data Book of Ukraine» and 47 regionally rare plant species within Poltava administrative region, and rather low degree of preservation area (0,3%). So the priority task for the development of Poltava town territorial commune in a direction of a biodiversity conservation is to be creation of new preservation territories on areas with the high concentration of rare vascular plant species.