Lichen records from Southeast and East Anatolian region (Turkey)

Abstract

In this study, 278 lichen specimens, collected from sixteen localities in Adıyaman, Ağrı, Batman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Kars, Mardin and Şanlıurfa provinces, which located in Southeast and East Anatolian regions, were investigated. Onehundered and nine taxa were determined belonging to thirty six genera. Among the specimens that we are collected from the study region, 85 of them were reported previously. Our results indicated that 24 taxa are new to Southeast and East Anatolian region. Rinodina rinodinoides (Anzi) H. Mayrhofer & Scheid. is new record for Turkey.