Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. B, 43(1), pp. 1–10, February 22, 2017 Contribution to the Knowledge of the Genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) in Southern Far East Russia Yoshihito Ohmura1,*, Irina Skirina2 and Fedor Skirin2 1 Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Amakubo 4–1–1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–0005, Japan 2 Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia * E-mail:
[email protected] (Received 18 November 2016; accepted 21 December 2016) Abstract Specimens of the lichen genus Usnea from the southern part of Far East Russia were examined. As the result of our modern taxonomic studies, following 19 species were confirmed: Usnea cornuta, U. dasaea, U. dasopoga, U. diffracta, U. diplotypus, U. fragilescens, U. fulvorea- gens, U. glabrata, U. glabrescens, U. intumescens, U. lapponica, U. longissima, U. pangiana, U. praetervisa, U. rubicunda, U. rubrotincta, U. subfloridana, U. trichodeoides and U. wasmuthii, of which U. cornuta, U. dasaea, U. intumescens, U. pangiana, U. praetervisa and U. rubrotincta are new to Russia. Although U. aciculifera, U. articulata, U. barbata, U. bismolliuscula, U. cavernosa and U. mutabilis have been reported from the southern part of Far East Russia, they were not found in our examined specimens, but they were included here in an artificial key to the 25 species recorded for this region. Key words: Eastern Asia, flora, Jewish Autonomous Region, Khabarovsk, lichen, Primorsky, Sakhalin, taxonomy. Ohmura, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014; Introduction Ohmura and Kanda, 2004; Ohmura and The genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) Onimaru, 2010; Clerc, 2011).