XVI International Botanical Congess

Armenia involves the opulence and originality of fungal biota. In the Republic it has been revealed 4166 species of macro- and micromycetes, referring to the divisions Myxomycota and Eumycota. Divisions Myxomycota includes 44 species, Eumycota are spread in 5 subdivisions: Mastigomycotina (125 species), Zygomycotina (140), Ascomycotina (960), Basidiomycotina (1144), Deuteromycotina (1753). Biodiversity of fungi involves parasitic representatives and saprotrophic fungi refering to soil micromycetes (550 species), from macromycetes - xylotrophs (500), humus and litter saprotrophs (380) and other ecologo-trophical groups. Composition of water fungi numbers 200 species. It has been revealed 25 species of predatory fungi. From 1182 species macroscopic fungi 284 are edible, and 59-poisonous. It has been examined specific fungal groups-inducers of mycosis in man, fungi-destructors of forage and foodstuffs, industrial materials, cosmetics (270). On the bases of obtained data a multivolume edition Fungi of Armenia is being published, out of which 7 volumes have been already published.