RARE AND THREATENED PLANT SPECIES OF UKRAINE AND ADJACENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF ODESSA MECHNIKOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY’ HERBARIUM (MSUD)

Odesa High Pedagogical Courses (OHPC) were created in Novorossian (now Odesa Mechnikov National) University at the beginning of XX century for women, who wanted to get education. The herbarium, which now is the part of MSUD, was made as by students and graduated students of Courses and University, lecturers and workers of the University, There are also materials, which were received in change from National Museum of Petersburg. The herbarium contains collection of 123 collectors, between them are J.K. Paczosky, P.S. Shesterikov and others. The aim of our work was analysis of OHPC’ collections for revealing rare and disappeared species, which were gathered on the territory of modern Ukraine, including Crimea, and adjacent European countries: Republic Moldova, Republic Belarus, Poland. Status of those species was analized according to data of International Union for Conservation of Nature, CITIES, Red Books of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Black Sea Shore, Polska Czerwona Ksiega Roslin, List of rare and disappeared sspecies of Odesa region. 1029 herbarium sheets was analized. We found 57 rare and threatened plant species from 48 genera and 28 families The biggest are genus Stipa , Carex (3 species), Dianthus ; Linum ; Elatine ; Hypericum (2 species). The largest number of species is listed as rare and threatened plants of Odesa (27 species), Red Book of Poland (23 species) and Red Book of Ukraine (15 species). Between species, which are included in CITIES, we indicated Listera ovata R.Br. and in IUMP – Gymnospermium odessanum (DC.) Takht. To the Bern Convention there were included Ferula orientalis L., Dianthus hypanicus Andrz., Aldrovanda vesiculosa L., Salvinia natans L., Trapa natans L. So in herbarium of OHWPC there are rare and threastened species, which now are protected not only on region level, but in the many states in Europe.