Fungi and fungus-like organisms of Homilsha Forests National Park, Ukraine 1* 1 2,3 OLEH V. PRYLUTSKYI , OLEXANDER YU. AKULOV , DMITRY V. LEONTYEV , ALEXANDER V. ORDY- 4 1 1 5 NETS , IRYNA I. YATSIUK , ANDRIY S. USICHENKO & ANTON O. SAVCHENKO 1V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Svobody sq., 4, Kharkiv 61022 Ukraine 2H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Valentynivs'ka str. 2, Kharkiv 61168 Ukraine 3Kharkiv State Zooveterinary Academy, Akademichna str. 1, p/o Mala Danylivka, Kharkiv oblast 62341 Ukraine 4University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, Kassel D-34132 Germany 5University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014, Tartu, Estonia CORRESPONDENCE TO:
[email protected] ABSTRACT − The annotated checklist of fungi and fungus-like organisms, recorded in the Homilsha Forests National Park, Eastern Ukraine, is given. The list includes 1469 species and infraspecific taxa belonging to 10 phyla of Fungi, Amoebozoa, Stramenopila, Rhizaria and Discoba. For species studied by the authors of this checklist, names are accompanied by species abundance status (Rare, Occasional and Common). Names are also annotated by literature references (if available); however, the majority of taxa are reported for the first time. Thirty names from the literature could not be interpreted and these literature records are treated separately from the main list. KEY WORDS − mycota, myxomycetes, Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Ukraine, biodiversity, oak forests, Eastern Europe, natural reserve Introduction Documenting biodiversity at the local level is a first step to understand ecological processes, especial- ly those happening at broader spatial and temporal scales. In Europe, the species diversity of fungi is generally well explored in the northern, western and central parts of the continent, thanks to a more than two centuries old mycological research tradition (Kotiranta et al 2009, Langer et al.