Статья «Б. С. ХАРИТОНЦЕВ. ОСОБЕННОСТИ ГЕНЕЗИСА ФИТОСТРОМЫ РОССИИ (ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ): МОНОГРАФИЯ. ТОБОЛЬСК: ФИЛИАЛ ТЮМГУ В Г. ТОБОЛЬСКЕ, 2015. 161 С. Б. С. ХАРИТОНЦЕВ. ФЛОРИСТИЧЕСКОЕ ДАВЛЕНИЕ В ФИТОСТРОМЕ СИБИРИ: МОНОГРАФИЯ. ТОБОЛЬСК: ФИЛИАЛ ТЮМГУ В Г. ТОБОЛЬС»

Both books written by B. S. Kharitontsev (working in Tobolsk - southern part of West Siberia) consist of two independent parts. In the first parts, several new terms are introduced and some conclusions on phenomena (not necessarily connected with those terms) are presented, the second ones contain descriptions of new vascular plant species. Terminological novelties is a peculiarity of the author. The term phytostroma plays the central role in both books. This term was likely proposed by Vysotsky (1917, 1925) as a synonym of plant cover. According to B. S. Kharitontsev, phytostroma has «three dimensions»: flora, vegetation and phytobiota (= phytocomponent of the landscape). However, there is no justification of the necessity of this term. In the introduction to the first book (Kharitontsev, 2015), the author proposes several new terms such as florul, florulotype, phytobiotype, phytobiototype, phytolocus, phytopool, also without explanations. However, these terms are almost out of use in the other part of the book, where B. S. Kharitontsev operating by terms proposed by Mordkovich (2005) tries to discuss some features (entitled by him as «ecogenesis», «migration of species» etc.) of selected plants, but without any facts justifying his conclusions. In the second book (Kharitontsev, 2016), another new term, floristic pressure, is proposed. According to the author this is a value of «migration opportunity of species». However, later he did not propose any approach to the calculation of such value for species, but did this for families based on the list of most species-rich families in the flora of Siberia (Baikov et al., 1998). The necessity of such terminological «novation» is not explained. The second parts of both books as it was already mentioned, contain descriptions of new species. In two books and one article (Kharitontsev, 2017), 133 new species and subspecies were described, and about two-thirds of them (92) are known from the vicinity of the city of Tobolsk and neighboring area. Although all names have been effectively and validly published, 36 of them are later homonyms and, hence, illegitimate. All new taxa are known only by holotypes, no specimina examinata (paratypes) are cited. Justification of the necessity of all these taxonomic novelties is not presented. Diagnoses usually are very short or absent. Both books unfortunately merit zero or even negative scientific value. It is also impossible to find any traces of the work by scientific and stylistic editors.