Otte, V 2005: Notes on the lichen flora of the Black Sea coast of Russia [in Russian]. - Novitates Systematicae Plantarum non Vascularium39: 219-224. [RLL Suppl.] Keywords: MEDITERRANEAN OUTPOSTS
Abstract: The first records of 29 lichen taxa to the northwestern Caucasus are given. Among them are Mediterranean and Mediterranean-atlantic species not known elsewhere from Russia, as Diploicia canescens, Pertusaria ilicicola, Physconia grisea ssp. algeriensis, Pyrenula chlorospila, Ramalina canariensis, Roccella fucoides and Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. New to Russia is also Verrucaria sorbinea Breuss and material that (morphologically) belongs to Physconia americana Essl.