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Myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime molds, are a group of lower eukaryotes that grow and feed at the motile phase of the life cycle, named plasmodium, and produce complex fruiting bodies at the reproductive phase. Most of them live on land, mainly in forest ecosystems (Stephenson, 1988). Phytocenotic connections of myxomycetes in the forest‐steppe zone of Ukraine have not been previously studied. It remains unknown to what extent the foreststeppe biota of these organisms depends on vegetation and in which of its parameters (species richness, the composition of dominant species, the proportion of unique species, etc.) this dependence is manifested. Specific features of the myxomycete biota in zonal phytocenoses and phytocenoses that do not belong to the zonal vegetation of this region are also unknown.