Nomenclatural standards of seven iris cultivars, namely ‘Alla Dukhova’, ‘Altay’, ‘Vasily Alfiorov’, ‘Lenkoran’, ‘Moldova’, ‘Nikolay Tsiskaridze’, and ‘Professor Dorofeyev’ bred at the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS have been prepared in accordance with the rules and recommendations outlined in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. Herbarium specimens are supplemented with pictures of flowering plants. Nomenclatural standards are registered in the VIR Herbarium database and deposited in the Herbarium of Cultivated Plants of the World, their Wild Relatives and Weeds (WIR) at the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources.

The article provides an analysis of the degree of representativeness of perennial forage grasses from the Murmansk Region and the Republic of Karelia in the VIR collection. Maps showing sites of sampling perennial forage grasses by VIR collecting missions have been compiled. Areas in the Murmansk Region and Republic of Karelia yet not explored by collecting missions have been identified.

The work is devoted to the identification and publication of the type material preserved in the Herbarium collections of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BIN RAS).

In August 2025, the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources organized a collecting mission to explore and collect wild relatives of cultivated plants in the Middle Volga region. Thirty-nine habitats were surveyed, and fruit plants were collected in 22 of them. The total of 94 samples of fruit crops and their wild relatives were collected in gardens, old forest plantations and natural growing areas. The collected material includes 27 seed samples of Amelanchier ovalis Medik. (2), Amygdalus nana L. (2), Armeniaca vulgaris Lam. (1), Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (1), Cerasus fruticosa Pall. (1), Cerasus vulgaris Mill. (2), Padus avium Mill. (3), Prunus domestica L. (5), Prunus spinosa L. (1), Ribes aureum L. (2), Ribes nigrum L. (2), Ribes rubrum L. (2), Rubus caesius L. (3); 24 cuttings of Malus domestica (L.) Borkh. (22) and Pyrus communis L. (2); 15 live plant specimens of Amelanchier ovalis Medik. (1), Amygdalus nana L. (1), Cerasus vulgaris Mill. (2), Grossularia reclinata (L.) Mill. (1), Prunus domestica L. (3), Prunus spinosa L. (1), Ribes aureum L. (2), Ribes nigrum L. (2), Ribes rubrum L. (2). and 28 herbarium specimens of 18 species of the genera Malus Mill., Lonicera L., Rubus L., Amygdalus L., Aronia Medik., Cerasus Mill., Crataegus Tourn. ex L., Fragaria L., Padus Mill., Prunus L., Pyrus L., Rosa L., and Sorbus L.

Natural meadows provide a source for hay production in the northern Far East. Therefore, studying wild forage grasses as an important component of the region's plant genetic resources is becoming a pressing issue.

This paper summarizes data on the most promising forage grasses in the Magadan Region; it presents collecting sites and descriptions of the species' locations identified and explored during a collecting mission conducted in 2025 by the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources of the Russian Federation.

The collecting mission yielded 39 samples of 26 species of wild relatives of forage grasses growing in various natural and climatic zones of the Magadan Region. Of these, 18 species are native to the region, while eight are alien.

Native species adapted to the extreme natural and climatic conditions of the northern Far East deserve special attention. This group includes Poa sibirica Roshev. and Alopecurus alpinus Sm., which are rare in the region's natural biotopes and sensitive to anthropogenic impact. It is recommended to monitor the population status of these species and, if necessary, preserve their genetic material both in gene banks (ex situ) and in their natural environment (in situ).

Two wild species of Lactuca s.str. are reported for the Russian part of Altai, namely L. altaica Fisch. et C. A. Mey. and L. serriola L. Both species belong to the primary gene pool of L. sativa  L. and readily hybridize with the cultivated species. The most widespread is the type form L. serriola f. serriola with pinnatilobate, runcinate-pinnatifid leaves; less common is L. serriola f. integrifolia (S. F. Gray) S. D. Prince et R. N. Carter with entire cauline leaves. L. altaica has been described by F. Fischer and K. Meyer from the Altai territory. Based on morphological features from the original description and authentic herbarium specimens, plants from only seven localities in the Altai Territory were identified as L. altaica.

The paper presents the first results of a study of ergasiophygophytes in the Altai Territory. Ergasiophygophytes include alien species that are or were cultivated in this area, have “escaped” from cultivation, and are capable of colonizing the anthropogenically disturbed habitats and penetrating natural communities.

As a result of an inventory of alien flora in the Altai Territory, 155 vascular plant species from 46 families and 115 genera can currently be classified as ergasiophygophytes. In terms of the species number, the most numerous are the families Fabaceae (19), Rosaceae (18), Poaceae (11), and Brassicaceae (10). Half of the families (23) and three-quarters of the genera (87) are represented by only one species. Most ergasiophygophytes in the studied area are perennials, phanerophytes being the most numerous. A chorological analysis using R.V. Kamelin's classification of the flora of the Earth has shown that the species with boreal-ancient Mediterranean, ancient Mediterranean, and boreal types of distribution area are predominant among ergasiophygophytes. Most of these species originate from Eurasian floras.

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest modern scientists, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Nikolaevich Tzvelev (February 3, 1925 – July 19, 2015). His primary research interests were focused on cereals. He also conducted detailed studies of the flora of Eastern Europe and individual taxonomic groups in the Arctic and Far East.