Lichens of the Polish Carpathians

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 These are bibliographic citations or acronyms of herbaria (KRAM, KRA, MIN, UGDA, OPUN) where unpublished herbarium specimens are available.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).