Hae-Sook Jeon 1, Young Jin Koh 1, Laszlo Lökös 2, You Mi Lee 3, Bong-Kyu Byun 3 and Jae-Seoun Hur
1Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Sunchon, 540-742, Korea
2Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Pf 222. H-1476, Hungary
3Division of Specimens and Genetic Resources, Korea National Arboretum 487-821, Korea
Correspondence to jshur1@sunchon.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June 30, 2009, 37(1):1-10.
https://doi.org/10.4489/kjm.2009.37.1.001
(Received November 28, 2008. Accepted February 24, 2009)
Published: June 30, 2009.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
Total 222 lichen specimens of North Korea including 23 family, 54 genera and 119 species were newly obtained from the Hungarian Natural History Museum for the last 3 years. Among them, 12 species were added to Korean lichen checklist as new. All the species were deposited at the herbarium of Korea National Arboretum. In addition, unpublished list of lichen species distributed in Mt. Myohang was kindly donated from the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The list was originally prepared by North Korean lichenologists and kept in the museum from 1988. In the list, 26 family, 57 genera and 179 species of lichens were described and 17 species were included as new reports. This list provided 29 lichen species as new to the Korean Peninsula. This information will make significant contribution to lichenological study in the Korean Peninsula.
Lichen, List, Mt. Myohang, New record, North Korea