A complete inventory of herbarium funds concerning the family Orchidaceae of the three largest collections in Lviv, namely Herbarium of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (LW), the State Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (LWS), and Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, NAS of Ukraine (LWKS), has been conducted. In general, 4465 herbarium sheets from 19 regions of Ukraine are being kept in the herbaria of Lviv. Most of them are from Lviv (49.6%), Ivano-Frankivsk (17.8%) and Transcarpathian (14.5%) Regions. Taking into consideration the time frame, 612 herbarium sheets (13.7%) have been collected by 1910, 853 (19.1%) – from 1911 to 1960, and 3000 (67.2 ) – from 1961 to 2014. Common for the three collections of the family Orchidaceae are 24 genera and 45 species. In total, herbarium collections consist of 34 genera, 141 species and subspecies, representing 27 of 28 genera and 59 (84.3%) of 70 species recorded in recent studies in Ukraine.

Keywords: taxonomic structure, Orchidaceae, Lviv, herbaria

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