Modern state of lichens and vascular plants in the nature sanctuary “Beryozoviy ovrag” (Alekseevskiy district of Samara oblast)

In “Beryozoviy ovrag” nature sanctuary grows not less than 41 types of lichens relating to 31 genera, 16 families, 9 orders, mainly from orders of Lecanorales and Teloschistales, including Psora decipiens listed in the Red Book of Samara oblast, and also offered in her second edition Circinaria hispida and Scytinium tenuissimum and a rare type of Psorotichia schaereri in Samara oblast. Among the ecological substrate groups of lichens epigeids, evrisubstrate and epiphite-epixilate prevail. Also here not less than 340 species of vascular plants from 204 genera, 54 families and 3 divisions mainly the evro-asia ones, including 42 endemics and 27, included in the Red Book of Samara oblast.