HISTORY OF TAXONOMIC MYCOLOGY IN BELARUS:
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY

Urediniomycetes and Atractiellomycetes

The oldest known to us records of rust fungi, supposedly belonged to Belarus area, are 12 species of the genus Puccinia, 26 of the genus Uredo, and single rust species under the name Xyloma virgaureae, included in the book by Jundziłł (1830). Three rust species possibly collected in Belarus part of Belavezhskaya Pushcha were mentioned in the paper by Błoński (1988). Later Błoński (1889) reported 14 species collected or observed in the same region; additionally 3 species have unclear distributional data.

Some data on rust fungi from Belarus occurred in the year-book on plant diseases and damage, published in St-Petersburg. For example, Puccinia coronifera (Jaczewski, 1907: 55) and P. pringsheimiana (ibid.: 141).

The first big account on Belarus Uredinales was a work by Kastory (1912), including 51 species found in Vitsebsk and Orsha vicinity. Schembel (1913) published 15 species from Minsk province. Nine urediniomycetes were published in the expedition account by Wyssotzky et al. (1925). The works by Lebedeva included: 7 species in the first annotated list (1925, Erstes...), 27 species in the second list (1925, Zweites...), and 17 species in the third list (1935). Fourteen species were published by Nestertschuk (1927). In 1929 Dorozhkin published a list of 35 species recorded near Orsha (Orsha akruha).

Two species were reported by Kuprevich (1931, Fungi...). Tupenevitch (1932, Die parasitischen…) listed 43 species. A list of 50 species from northwest Belarus was published by Szakien (1935). In the same perioid Tumiłowiczówna (1935) published a list of 59 species collected near and in Valkavysk town.

	Well-known Soviet urediniologist Vasilii Kuprevich (Kuprevicz) published a big taxonomic monograph on rust fungi of the USSR (Kuprevich, 1971), in which some species were referred to the BSSR area. In a paper on the tribe Tranzschelieae, Zenkova and Kuprevich (1962) discussed two species found in Belarus.
	Illustrations of Melampsoridium betulae and Cronartium ribicola micromorphology in a monograph by Kuprevich (1971)

Puccinia taraxaci was described by Dorozhkin (1948). Puccinia maydis was discussed by Guletskaya (1958, The mainest…). A morphological description of Uromyces renovatus was published by Chekalinskaya (1958). Uromyces lupinicola was described in the book by Dorozhkin and Chekalinskaya (1965). Vasil'eva (1966) identified 4 Melampsora species on poplars. Two species on Ribis were reported by Gryshanovich (1976). Twelve Uromyces species from fabaceous plants were discussed in a book by Dorozhkin et al. (1978, Fabaceous…). Fourteen species were reported and 2 of them described by Chekalinskaya and Nitievskaya (1984). Eight species were described in the book by Dorozhkin & Nitievskaya (1990).

Five species found in Central Botanical Garden in Minsk were reported in the paper by Kustova and Losinskaya (1960). Ten species were reported, 4 of them described, and 3 illustrated by Gorlenko (1961). Tvelve species of the Uredinales registered in Central Botanical Garden were published in an article by Gorlenko (1966), 4 of them with morphology description. Twenty-three species were reported by Gorlenko and Pan'ko (1967). The pocket handbook by Gorlenko (1969) includes short morphological descriptions of 51 species (without data on their geography). Twelve species were mentioned in a book by Gorlenko and Pan'ko (1972). Fifteen species were discussed and the morphology of 10 species was described in a book by Gorlenko et al. (1988). Five species were described and one of them illustrated by Gorlenko et al. (1990).

Illustration of Puccinia cyani from a paper by Gorlenko (1966)

Rhizoctonia violacea, the agonomycetous state of Helicobasidium brebissonii (Urediniomycetes), was discussed and illustrated in Dorozhkin et al. (1978, Fabaceus…), and described by Gorlenko et al. (1990).

A detailed morphological description of Eocronartium typhuloides (‘Eucronartium'; Urediniomycetes), collected near Minsk, was given by Lebedeva (1925, Erstes...). Eocronartium was also published by Lebedeva (1925, Zweites...).

The fungus Phleogena faginea (Atractiellomycetes) was reported for the first time for Belarus and described in an article by Serzhanina and Gapienko (1981). Later it was included in a terminology brochure (Serzhanina, 1991) and in the book listing species of MSK herbarium (Parfenov & Gapienko, 2006: 282).

Since 1963 rust fungi were being recorded by workers of Belarusian State University, Departent of Botany. Shukanov and Stefanovich (1982) published a list of 41 species collected near Narach Lake in 1963–1979. A big contribution listing 116 species collected in central Belarus was a manuscript deposited in VINITI (Girilovich et al., 1988, annotation publ. 1989). The survey of Belarusian Urediniomycetes was undertaken by Ivan Girilovich in his Candidate thesis (1991). In all 214 species of rust fungi were listed in the manuscript, from which 70 were recorded for the first time for Belarus. The data on species morphology were placed in a big dissertation appendix. Eleven species were reported by Polyksenova et al. (2000). A recent work on parasitic microfungi found in Loshytsa Park and Garden in Minsk (Girilovich et al., 2002) included a list of 25 species of the Uredinales. A list of 61 species collected in Belavezhskaya Pushcha was published by Girilovich et al. (2003).