Latest Articles from Italian Botanist Latest 100 Articles from Italian Botanist https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:22:12 +0200 Pensoft FeedCreator https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/i/logo.jpg Latest Articles from Italian Botanist https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/ The spiral of plants and soil in the cycle of life https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/107071/ Italian Botanist 17: 1-11

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.17.107071

Authors: Augusto Zanella

Abstract: This is not an article, but rather an account of a meeting that took place between two naturalists who had not seen each other for a few years and who freely exchanged their doubts and matured lines of thought. It is a provocative dialogue between the author of this article and Sandro Pignatti on natural evolution, considering the soil as a living matrix in which recycling of organic matter (including DNA) takes place. We can also interpret it as an attempt to merge the points of view of vegetation and soil ecologists, in order to revive the discussion on natural evolution. We think we understand it, but we don’t. We discussed the following topics: 1) the relationship between phytosociology and plant ecology; 2) the soil as an individual or as an ecosystem’s digestive machinery; 3) the hypothesis of a complemental geological (long-term) flow of DNA fragments in relation to the recycling process that takes place in the soil. Past and recent research in the fields of biology and evolution highlights a functional and primordial collaboration between living beings in the exploitation of natural resources. In this process that ultimately is life, soil plays a crucial role because it is cyclically and progressively renewed and enriches the sources of structural building blocks. The purpose of this story is to encourage us to reflect on the meaning of life, considering the functional contribution of death, which we perhaps mistakenly call “biodegradation”.

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Short Communication Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:09:30 +0200
Can floral volatile organic compounds contribute to the taxonomy of the Rhamnus sect. Alaternus? https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/116255/ Italian Botanist 16: 149-164

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.116255

Authors: Leonardo Llorens, Pere Ferriol, Joan Tomàs, María Trinidad García, Lorenzo Gil

Abstract: The chemistry of plants represents a taxonomic and phylogenetic value. Researchers have recently used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for taxonomic studies. The present work analysed and determined, for the first time, the usefulness of floral volatile compounds in the taxonomy of two species of Rhamnus sect. Alaternus, as well as the hybrid between these taxa. The two species show significant quantitative and qualitative differences. The terpenes linalool, ocimene, caryophyllene, and green volatiles are exclusive to Rh. alaternus, while farnesene (terpene), methyl salicylate and methyl benzoate (benzoids) are obtained from Rh. ludovici-salvatoris. Both volatilomes were attractive to Hymenoptera pollinators; therefore, these pollinators could serve as the main hybridisation vector. In addition, Rh. alaternus shows greater chemical and genetic heterogeneity than Rh. ludovici-salvatoris. Hybrids between the two species, Rh. × bermejoi, are closer in chemical similarity to Rh. alaternus than Rh. ludovici-salvatoris.

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Research Article Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:12:50 +0200
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 13 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/116700/ Italian Botanist 16: 135-148

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.116700

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Simonetta Bagella, Enrico Bajona, Giulio Barone, Giovanna Becca, Maria Carmela Caria, Emilio Di Gristina, Federico Fainelli, Jacopo Franzoni, Antonio Giacò, Simone Orsenigo, Maryia Paliy, Giovanni Rivieccio, Malvina Urbani, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes the first count for Dianthus carthusianorum subsp. tenorei, Helosciadium nodiflorum, Hieracium hypochoeroides subsp. cilentanum, H. lesimanum, H. scopolioides, H. terraccianoi. In addition, first Italian counts for Crupina vulgaris, Damasonium alisma, and Illecebrum verticillatum are reported.

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Research Article Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:39:36 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophtes, fungi and lichens: 16 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/114044/ Italian Botanist 16: 105-120

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.114044

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Alfredo Vizzini, Cecilia Totti, Marta Puglisi, Mattia Martin Azzella, Andrea Battaglini, Liliana Bernardo, Ilaria Bonini, Giacomo Calvia, Laura Cancellieri, Marco Cantonati, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Goffredo Filibeck, Gabriele Galasso, Roberta Galli, Gabriele Gheza, Anna Guttová, Josef Hafellner, Deborah Isocrono, Jiří Malíček, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Silvia Ongaro, Giulio Pandeli, Luca Paoli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Giovanna Potenza, Filippo Prosser, Domenico Puntillo, Leonardo Rosati, Sabrina Rossi, Gianluca Rapaccini, Giovanni Sicoli, Daniel Spitale, Egidio Trainito

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the algal genera Acetabularia, Nitella, and Nitellopsis for the bryophyte genera Drepanocladus, Fissidens, Hookeria, and Weissia, the fungal genera Alnicola, Arthonia, Cortinarius, Inocybe, Leucoagaricus, Neohygrocybe, and Puccinia and the lichen genera Bacidina, Chaenotheca, Flavoplaca, Gyalecta, Heterodermia, Rinodina, Scytinium, and Squamarina.

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Research Article Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:53:41 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 16 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/114657/ Italian Botanist 16: 89-103

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.114657

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Silvia Assini, Ilaria Brugellis, Giovanni Buccomino, Francesca Carruggio, Fabio Conti, Emanuele Costanzo, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Francesco Falcinelli, Francesco Festi, Luca Fontanabona, Luigi Forte, Paola Fortini, Gabriele Galasso, Emanuele Genduso, Luigi Ghillani, Günter Gottschlich, Duilio Iamonico, Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface, Michele Lonati, Francesco Mascia, Giacomo Mei, Ginevra Nota, Paola Palazzolo, Gaetano Pazienza, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Giovanna Potenza, Luca Quaranta, Emanuele Repetto, Leonardo Rosati, Francesco Santi, Grazia Secci, Giuseppe Nicola Silletti, Adriano Stinca, Gianmarco Tavilla, Valeria Tomaselli, Giancarlo Tondi, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and exclusions to the Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:59:22 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 16 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/115302/ Italian Botanist 16: 73-87

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.115302

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Claudia Angiolini, Lorenzo Baccheschi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Giulio Barone, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Giacomo Calvia, Sergio Costantini, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Giuseppe De Fine, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Emilio Di Gristina, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Tiberio Fiaschi, Mauro Fois, Valentina L. A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Michele Lonati, Jacopo Lupoletti, Leonardo M. Manti, Francesco Mascia, Giacomo Mei, Ginevra Nota, Nicola Olivieri, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Antonio Pica, Lorenzo Pinzani, Silvia Pirani, Lina Podda, Filippo Prosser, Simone Ravetto Enri, Alessandro Ruggero, Marco Sarigu, Adriano Stinca, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records and status changes from casual to naturalized for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:06:06 +0200
Contribution to the floristic knowledge of Lipari and Panarea Islands (Sicilia, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/113415/ Italian Botanist 16: 59-71

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.113415

Authors: Giulio Barone, Enrico Bajona, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Laura Cancellieri, Giuseppe Caruso, Fabio Conti, Gianniantonio Domina, Simonetta Fascetti, Jacopo Franzoni, Valentina L. A. Laface, Lorenzo Pinzani, Leonardo Rosati, Anna Scoppola, Adriano Stinca, Agnese Tilia, Alessandro Crisafulli

Abstract: The inventory of the taxa collected in 2022 during the annual field trip of the Working Group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society is reported. The field trip was held from 19th to 22th April in the islands of Lipari and Panarea (Aeolian Islands, Sicilia). Overall, 1,664 herbarium specimens were deposited in public and private herbaria. The flora documented for the studied area amounts to 386 specific and subspecific taxa, belonging to 241 genera and 74 families. Centaurea aeolica, Helichrysum litoreum (Asteraceae), and Dianthus rupicola subsp. aeolicus (Caryophyllaceae) were the only three Italian endemics found in the study area, whereas 48 alien taxa were recorded. Dimorphotheca ecklonis (Asteraceae), Nassella tenuissima (Poaceae), Solanum torvum (Solanaceae), and Viola wittrockiana (Violaceae) are casual alien species new to Sicilia, whereas Oenothera odorata (Onagraceae) is a new naturalized alien species for the Italian vascular flora.

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Research Article Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:32:30 +0200
Itineraries of the Working Group for Vegetation Science of the Italian Botanical Society – 1 (2022): Excursion to the Egadi Islands, Mount San Giuliano and Mount Cofano (Trapani, western Sicily, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/103989/ Italian Botanist 16: 1-57

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.103989

Authors: Lorenzo Gianguzzi, Riccardo Guarino, Giuseppe Bazan, Romeo Di Pietro, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Enrico Bajona, Peter Bolliger, Costantino Bonomi, Adriano Camuffo, Carlo Console, Simonetta Fascetti, Paola Fortini, Annarita Frattaroli, Giacomo Mei, Fabio Mondello, Silvia Olivari, Masin Rizzieri, Leonardo Rosati, Simona Sarmati, Leonardo Scuderi, Marco Simonazzi, Giovanni Spampinato, Lucia Viegi, Adriano Stinca

Abstract: The results of the annual excursion of the Working Group for Vegetation Science of the Italian Botanical Society, held in the Egadi Islands, Mount San Giuliano and Mount Cofano (W Sicily) on April 23–27 2022, are presented. This paper includes: (1) general information on the visited sites; (2) geology and geomorphology; (3) climatology and bioclimatology with tables of climatic data; (4) description of the following five geobotanical itineraries – accompanied by 29 original vegetation relevés and 11 synthetic relevés, proceeding from different bibliographic references: (a) Mount San Giuliano; (b) Marettimo Island: coastal and sub-coastal stretch of the southern part, between Punta Bassana and Contrada Chiappera; (c) Marettimo Island: Case Romane, Mount Pizzo Falcone and the north-western coastal stretch; (d) Island of Levanzo; (e) Mount Cofano – with catenal pictograms of the vegetation, surveys and description of the plant communities and related syntaxonomic scheme; (5) list of the surveyed plant taxa, collected specimens and herbaria in which they are deposited. A new syntaxon is also described (Catapodio pauciflori-Moraeetum sisyrinchii ass. nova), referring to an ephemeral dry grassland located along the north-western coastal stretch of Marettimo. The new association is framed in the Plantagini-Catapodion balearici, alliance of the Stipo-Bupleuretalia semicompositi order of the class Stipo-Trachynietea distachyae (order Stipo-Bupleuretalia semicompositi, alliance Plantagini-Catapodion balearici). An original synoptic table, regarding 17 different plant communities with high frequency of Moraea sisyrinchium, provides a comparative framework of the new association with allied vegetation units so far described throughout the Mediterranean region. Syntaxonomical and nomenclatural remarks regarding the Mediterranean vegetation occurring in this territory are also given throughout the text. Some floristic updates for the study sites are also reported, including the discovery for the first time in Sicily of Lysimachia loeflingii.

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Research Article Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:46:13 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 15 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/107040/ Italian Botanist 15: 177-191

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.107040

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Giulia Calderisi, Donatella Cogoni, Andrea Mondoni, Juri Nascimbene, Francesco Rota, Thasajini Sajeevan, Malaka Wijayasinghe, Camilla Wellstein, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of three vascular plants are presented according to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment of Oryza rhizomatis D.A.Vaughan and Saxifraga facchinii W.D.J.Koch at a global level and Helianthemum caput-felis Boiss. at a regional level.

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Research Article Fri, 7 Jul 2023 11:29:03 +0300
An updated inventory of the vascular flora of the Cerbaie hills (Tuscany, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/105302/ Italian Botanist 15: 165-175

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.105302

Authors: Giovanni Gestri, Brunello Pierini, Marco D’Antraccoli, Andrea Bernardini, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: We present an updated list of the vascular flora occurring in the Cerbaie hills (Tuscany), a site of high naturalistic interest. The list is based on a literature survey and on field studies carried out in the years 2010–2022. The Cerbaie hills host a flora of 1,107 specific and subspecific taxa (including 100 naturalized aliens), 32 casual aliens and 10 hybrid taxa. Two taxa are new for Tuscany: Carex oedipostyla and Thalictrum simplex subsp. galioides; 330 taxa are new for the study area. Concerning old records, 344 have been confirmed, while 47 were not confirmed, albeit considered reliable. Moreover, we considered three taxa as locally extinct, 19 as doubtfully occurring, and three as wrongly reported. Despite the low elevation of the study area, life forms and chorotypes show marked Eurosiberian affinities, in agreement with the temperate and continental climate.

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Research Article Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:00:25 +0300
The Fucales (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae) of the Island of Pantelleria (Sicily Channel, Mediterranean Sea): a new contribution https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/103217/ Italian Botanist 15: 137-163

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.103217

Authors: Giuliana Marletta, Andrea Lombardo

Abstract: In the past, only a few studies were carried out on the marine vegetation of the Island of Pantelleria, reporting a high level of biodiversity in this island. However, the most recent study, performed about 20 years ago, documented a total loss of Fucales below ca. 12 m of depth and their substitution with morphologically simpler species. In the present study, the current presence and distribution of Cystoseira s.l. and Sargassum around the Island of Pantelleria were assessed, comparing the current data with the previous studies on the marine vegetation of this island. Through monitoring activities (both snorkelling and scuba diving), 19 taxa were recorded: seven belonging to Cystoseira, six to Ericaria, four to Gongolaria, and two to Sargassum. Comparing these data with the previous studies, it was highlighted that most of the species previously reported are still present on the island. Moreover, approximately 20 years after their documented disappearance, deep-water species such as C. foeniculacea f. latiramosa, G. elegans, G. montagnei, G. montagnei v. compressa and Sargassum cf. acinarium were recorded during this study, suggesting a natural recovery for these Fucales. We recommend that, in order to guarantee a long-term conservation of these fucalean populations, it would be useful to establish a marine protected area in the Island of Pantelleria.

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Research Article Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:24:36 +0300
Spontaneous vascular flora of the historical monumental cemetery of Modena (N-Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/102589/ Italian Botanist 15: 111-136

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.102589

Authors: Fabrizio Buldrini, Ilaria Gianaroli, Giovanna Bosi, Alessandro Alessandrini, Claudio Santini

Abstract: The first floristic study of the historical monumental cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena (N-Italy) is presented. The research was performed in the period 2019–2022, considering only spontaneous individuals growing within the historical area (4.8 ha). A total of 266 taxa (species and subspecies) was found, of which 1 new for the flora of Italy (Malus × robusta ‘John Downie’), 2 new for the administrative region of Emilia-Romagna (Calocedrus decurrens and Salvia haematodes) and 1 new for the province of Modena (Epilobium ciliatum). Therophytes prevail (37.6%), followed by hemicryptophytes (31.6%), phanerophytes (16.2%) and geophytes (11.7%). The chorological spectrum is dominated by Eurasian species (32.0%), followed by Mediterranean (26.3%), Cosmopolitan (24.8%), Boreal (6%) and N-American (4.5%) ones. Allochthonous species are 16.5% of the list, with neophytes always prevailing over archaeophytes (28 vs. 9 species). Invasive species are 67.8% of the neophytes; on a regional scale they are 1.5% of the list. Protected species are 2.6% of the total; 3 of them are internationally protected and 2 are included in the red list of Italian flora. This study confirms the great biological richness of urban environments and the potential of historical cemeteries as a refugium for the conservation of species that have become rare, endangered or infrequent at a regional or national level, because of the heavy human impact on the territory.

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Research Article Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:47:10 +0300
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 15 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/105796/ Italian Botanist 15: 91-109

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.105796

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Bajona, Enrico Banfi, Franco Barbadoro, Nello Biscotti, Daniele Bonsanto, Fabio Conti, Michele Da Pozzo, Davide Dagnino, Giuseppe De Fine, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Luigi Forte, Emilio Di Gristina, Gabriele Galasso, Luigi Ghillani, Günther Gottschlich, Leonardo Gubellini, Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface, Cesare Lasen, Michele Lonati, Andrea Mainetti, Francesco Mascia, Giuliana Mazzacuva, Carmelo Maria Musarella, Simone Orsenigo, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Gaetano Pazienza, Lorenzo Pinzani, Elia Stefano Rodi, Francesco Santi, Llorenç Sáez, Alberto Selvaggi, Valeria Tomaselli, Luigi Torino, Christian Zidorn, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and exclusions to the Italian administrative regions. New combinations in the genera Pilosella and Roemeria are proposed. Furthermore, the name Papaver siculum is lectotypified. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Mon, 22 May 2023 17:07:10 +0300
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 15 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/105794/ Italian Botanist 15: 77-89

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.105794

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Carlo Argenti, Enrico Bajona, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Giulio Barone, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Nello Biscotti, Fabrizio Bonali, Chiara Bonifazio, Daniele Bonsanto, Fabrizio Buldrini, Silvia Cannucci, Alessia Cozzolino, Antonino De Natale, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Emilio Di Gristina, Tiberio Fiaschi, Andrea Lallai, Michele Lonati, Fernando Lucchese, Jacopo Lupoletti, Niccolò Marchi, Riccardo Motti, Ginevra Nota, Antonio Pica, Marco Pittarello, Giovanna Potenza, Giuseppe Ratini, Franco Rota, Francesco Santi, Claudio Santini, Marco Sarigu, Alberto Selvaggi, Marco Simonazzi, Federico M. Tardella, Silvia Tripi, Roberto Vetromile, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Mon, 22 May 2023 17:02:05 +0300
First record of Rhizomatophora aegopodioides (Apiaceae) in Italy https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/98538/ Italian Botanist 15: 65-76

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.98538

Authors: Riccardo Pennesi, Emilia Cunto, Sandro Ballelli

Abstract: The occurrence of Rhizomatophora aegopodioides, a species distributed in the Balkan Peninsula, Greece, southern Caucasus, Turkey and southern Russia, is reported here for the first time in Italy. It was discovered in Calabria (southern Italy) in the Argentino River Valley and along the Abatemarco River (municipality of Cosenza), localities partly included within the Pollino National Park. Information about taxonomy, nomenclature, habitat, phytosociology and distribution of this species in Italy are provided.

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Research Article Thu, 4 May 2023 10:49:17 +0300
Forest nurseries and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan: the case of Sicily and Apulia (Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/102133/ Italian Botanist 15: 49-63

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.102133

Authors: Raimondo Pardi, Giuseppe Venturella, Gianniantonio Domina, Emilio Di Gristina, Fortunato Cirlincione, Maria Letizia Gargano

Abstract: In Italy, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) foresees the planting of ca. 6.6 million trees to establish urban and peri-urban forests in 14 metropolitan cities. This ambitious project requires a significant number of native trees and shrubs, currently unavailable in Italian public and private nurseries. This survey analyzes the state of forest nurseries in two administrative regions of southern Italy, i.e. the “Filici” forest nursery (province of Agrigento, Sicily) and the Gargano Mountain Reclamation Consortium (province of Foggia, Apulia), to evaluate the adequacy of Sicilian and Apulian forest nurseries as potential sources of plant material to meet the requirements of the NRRP. The census carried out at the “Filici” nursery revealed the presence of more than 22,000 seedlings in cultivation, comprising 55 species, 26 genera, and 26 families. The autochthonous species are 43 (78.2%), while the exotic ones are 12 (21.8%). The Gargano Mountain Reclamation Consortium forest nursery has 190,876 seedlings in cultivation. A total of 80 species are present, belonging to 59 genera and 32 families. Of these, 68 (85%) are native species, 12 (15%) are exotic. An analysis of the plant material being cultivated in these forest nurseries shows the presence of a share of autochthonous species of interest for urban reforestation initiatives, however these are still insufficient in number.

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Research Article Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:15:42 +0300
Notulae to the Italian flora of Algae, bryophtes, fungi and lichens: 15 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/103781/ Italian Botanist 15: 35-47

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.103781

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Cecilia Totti, Mattia M. Azzella, Giulia Bacilliere, Rossano Bolpagni, Othmar Breuss, Annalena Cogoni, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Felix Faltner, Gabriele Gheza, Paolo Giordani, Deborah Isocrono, Petra Mair, Jiří Malíček, Pasquale Marino, Helmut Mayrhofer, Juri Nascimbene, Silvia Ongaro, Luca Paoli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Silvia Poponessi, Domenico Puntillo, Francesco Maria Raimondo, Giovanni Sicoli, Wilhelm Tratter

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning Algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the algal genus Nitella, for the bryophyte genera Anthoceros, Dicranodontium, Fontinalis, and Riccia, the fungal genera Inocybe and Xerophorus, and the lichen genera Bagliettoa, Biatora, Calicium, Cladonia, Coniocarpon, Lecanora, Opegrapha, Placynthium, Rhizocarpon, Scytinium, Solenopsora, Stereocaulon, and Verrucaria.

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Research Article Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:53:01 +0300
The vascular flora of Empoli (Tuscany, central Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/101748/ Italian Botanist 15: 21-33

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.101748

Authors: Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: A list of the vascular flora occurring in the municipality of Empoli (province of Firenze, Tuscany) is provided. The list is based on a bibliographic analysis and on field studies carried out in the years 2018–2022. A total of 757 specific and subspecific taxa currently occur in the study area (including 117 aliens), plus 51 cultivated taxa. Azolla filiculoides Lam., Prunus cerasifera Ehrh., and Veronica filiformis Sm. should be considered as naturalized aliens in Tuscany.

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Research Article Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:21:58 +0200
Changes in the flora of Lobbia Alta, a peak of the Adamello-Presanella Alps (Trento, Italy) between 1935 and 2021 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/97630/ Italian Botanist 15: 9-20

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.97630

Authors: Filippo Prosser, Alessio Bertolli, Giulia Tomasi

Abstract: Global warming is causing an enrichment of summit flora worldwide. This article presents the case of a peak in the southeastern Alps (Lobbia Alta, 3,196 m a.s.l., Adamello, Trento, Italy), for which a complete list of tracheophytes dating back to 1935 was available. As this peak is well delimited by glaciers and vertical cliffs, it has been possible to faithfully repeat this floristic inventory. We made three surveys, in 1991, 2006 and 2021, exploring the whole area. It resulted that in 86 years the species present on this peak have tripled, increasing from 17 to 51, with an acceleration in recent years. The biological forms have increased from two to six. The average temperature and the nutritional indexes according to Ellenberg have increased as well. We found that as many as six species reach their elevation record in the Alps on the Lobbia Alta, suggesting that this area is particularly prone to species ascension. Particularly interesting is the discovery of a 35 cm-tall specimen of Larix decidua at 3,130 m a.s.l., which seems to be the elevational record of the species.

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Research Article Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:48:58 +0200
Epimedium alpinum subsp. albanicum new subspecies for the flora of Kosovo https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/91193/ Italian Botanist 15: 1-8

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.15.91193

Authors: Zeqir Hashani, Xhavit Mala, Qenan Maxhuni, Lulzim Zeneli

Abstract: This paperwork provides data on the endemic taxa Epimedium alpinum subsp. albanicum Kit Tan, Shuka & Hallaçi, which is observed and identified for the first time for the territory of Kosovo. This taxon was found in Qafë Morine (Pass of Morina) within the locality of Devë, and Qafë Prush Municipality of Gjakova, on the road toward the border with Albania. Epimedium alpinum subsp. albanicum, is found in serpentine substrates which has a limited extent of presence in the investigated areas. This research includes the presence, description and distribution of this new taxa for the flora of Kosovo.

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Research Article Mon, 9 Jan 2023 10:06:19 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 14 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/97813/ Italian Botanist 14: 119-131

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.14.97813

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Sebastiano Andreatta, Claudia Angiolini, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Gianfranco Bertani, Gianmaria Bonari, Giovanni Buccomino, Giacomo Calvia, Paolo Caputo, Viviana Cavallaro, Fabio Conti, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Francesco D’Aleo, Francesco S. D’Amico, Giuseppe De Fine, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Manuela De Matteis Tortora, Enzo De Santis, Mauro Fois, Francesco Di Pietro, Romeo Di Pietro, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Tiberio Fiaschi, Luigi Forte, Gabriele Galasso, Valentina L.A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Michele Lonati, Caterina Longo, Daniela Longo, Marco Magrini, Giacomo Mei, Lorenzo Menghi, Flavio Menini, Antonio Morabito, Carmelo M. Musarella, Ginevra Nota, Donato C. Palermo, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Gaetano Pazienza, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Brunello Pierini, Lorenzo Pinzani, Giuseppe Pisani, Luca Polverelli, Filippo Prosser, Giovanni Salerno, Piero Salerno, Francesco Santi, Alberto Selvaggi, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Massimo Terzi, Francesca Valentini, Salvatore Vitale, Robert P. Wagensommer, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 7 Dec 2022 09:51:00 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 14 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/97758/ Italian Botanist 14: 99-118

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.14.97758

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Sebastiano Andreatta, Carlo Argenti, Giovanni Astuti, Giovanni Bacaro, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Simonetta Bagella, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Liliana Bernardo, Gianmaria Bonari, Giuseppe Brundu, Giovanni Buccomino, Giacomo Calvia, Laura Cancellieri, Alberto Capuano, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Fabio Conti, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Francesco S. D’Amico, Giuseppe De Fine, Leopoldo de Simone, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Francesca Emili, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Simonetta Fascetti, Tiberio Fiaschi, Mauro Fois, Paola Fortini, Rodolfo Gentili, Marco Giardini, Amara N. Hussain, Duilio Iamonico, Valentina L. A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Angela P. Lecis, Eleonora Ligato, Gianfranco Loi, Michele Lonati, Vanessa Lozano, Simona Maccherini, Andrea Mainetti, Francesco Mascia, Giacomo Mei, Flavio Menini, Marco Merli, Antonio Montesano, Michele Mugnai, Carmelo M. Musarella, Ginevra Nota, Nicola Olivieri, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Lorenzo Pinzani, Alice Pisano, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Giandomenico Posillipo, Giovanna Potenza, Massimiliano Probo, Filippo Prosser, Lara A. Quaglini, Simone Ravetto Enri, Giovanni Rivieccio, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Leonardo Rosati, Alberto Selvaggi, Adriano Soldano, Adriano Stinca, Stefano Tasinazzo, Salvatore Tassone, Massimo Terzi, Roberta Vallariello, Roberta Vangelisti, Filip Verloove, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Tue, 6 Dec 2022 09:43:44 +0200
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 14 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/97176/ Italian Botanist 14: 81-94

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.14.97176

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Hayder M. Al-Rammahi, Salvatore Cambria, Antonia E. Cristaudo, Bekhruz S. Khabibullaev, Mohammad K. Mohammad, Khabibullo F. Shomurodov, Gianmarco Tavilla, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of three vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Allium ravenii F.O.Khass., Shomuradov & Kadyrov and Centaurea seguenzae (Lacaita) Brullo, Marcenò & Siracusa at global level and Haloxylon persicum Bunge ex Boiss. & Buhse at regional level.

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Research Article Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:31:15 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 14 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/95956/ Italian Botanist 14: 61-80

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.14.95956

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Cecilia Totti, Michele Aleffi, Giulia Bacilliere, Renato Benesperi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Fabrizio Boccardo, Rossano Bolpagni, Wolfgang von Brackel, Giulia Canali, Giulia Celli, Annalena Cogoni, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Stefano Di Natale, Luca Di Nuzzo, Francesco Dovana, Gabriele Gheza, Paolo Giordani, Carlo Maria Giorgi, Daniele Giugia, Mauro Iberite, Deborah Isocrono, Jiří Malíček, Helmut Mayrhofer, Marco Muscioni, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Silvia Ongaro, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Pino Piccardo, Silvia Poponessi, María Prieto Álvaro, Filippo Prosser, Domenico Puntillo, Francesco Santi, Elisabetta Scassellati, Matthias Schultz, Saverio Sciandrello, Giovanni Sicoli, Adriano Soldano, Manuel Tiburtini, Chiara Vallese

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the algal genus Chara, for the bryophyte genera Bryum, Grimmia, Cephaloziella, Hypnum, Nogopterium, Physcomitrium, Polytrichastrum, Rhynchostegiella, Saelania, and Schistostega, the fungal genera Cortinarius, Lentinellus, Omphalina, and Xerophorus, and the lichen genera Acarospora, Agonimia, Candelariella, Cladonia, Graphis, Gyalolechia, Hypogymnia, Lichinella, Megalaria, Nephroma, Ochrolechia, Opegrapha, Peltigera, Placidium, Ramalina, Rhizoplaca, Ropalospora, Strangospora, Toniniopsis, Usnea, and Zahlbrucknerella.

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Research Article Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:16:59 +0200
An analysis of botanical studies of vascular plants from Italian wetlands https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/95072/ Italian Botanist 14: 45-60

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.14.95072

Authors: Giulio Barone, Fortunato Cirlincione, Emilio Di Gristina, Gianniantonio Domina, Lorenzo Gianguzzi, Giulia Mirabile, Luigi Naselli-Flores, Francesco M. Raimondo, Giuseppe Venturella

Abstract: Wetlands are essential for life on Earth, but at the same time the most threatened environments due to the gradual alterations associated with climate change and human action. The botanical studies on wetland higher plants carried out in Italy from 1950 until today are analysed in this survey. The 1,265 contributions resulting from this study are analysed from a historical, geographical, and content point of view. Most of the scientific contributions were published in the 1980s and 1990s, often by the same research groups and on a local scale. The predominant research theme is the inventory. Most papers are mainly focused on lakes and rivers. The results of this literature survey point to the need to continue and intensify these studies, especially in southern Italy and in temporary wetlands. It is essential to make the huge amount of data resting in drawers or included in scientific reports but not published in scientific journals readily accessible. This could also be achieved through online geographical databases.

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Review Article Thu, 3 Nov 2022 18:34:53 +0200
Remarks on the exotic flora of Capo Mortola (Ventimiglia, northern Italy) and its changes over time https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/79815/ Italian Botanist 14: 1-43

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.14.79815

Authors: Mauro Mariotti, Elena Zappa

Abstract: In this study, we compared current data and data of the census made in the 1990s related to the vascular flora of Capo Mortola (Ventimiglia, Italy), considering 270 taxa not dependent on crop management. The current status reported 198 alien species: 5 invasive, 65 naturalized 75 casual, 38 occurring as casual in human-dominated systems, but without direct intervention by humans and not close to parent plant, 15 occurring as casual alien, but still with some uncertainties for a definitive classification, and plus 3 cryptogenic and 1 eradicated (extinct) taxa, while in 1996 were 229 species: 87 naturalized and 142 adventitious (casual). Of these, 40 taxa show an increasing trend and 41 a decreasing or disappearing trend. If we consider the wild areas of Capo Mortola, 10 taxa are new to the Italian flora (7 casual and 3 naturalized) while 13 are new to the Ligurian flora only (all casual). If we also consider the neglected areas of the Botanical Gardens, 18 new casual species for the Italian flora and 10 for the Ligurian one would be added. In addition, 9 status changes are proposed on a national scale and 17 on a regional scale. An in-depth analysis was conducted on the presence and the local history of a subset of 34 exotic plants, 11 of which are new or have a new status for the Italian flora.

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Research Article Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:28:45 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 13 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/86714/ Italian Botanist 13: 85-94

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.13.86714

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Salvatore Cambria, Bekhruz S. Khabibullaev, Khabibullo F. Shomurodov, Gianmarco Tavilla, Angelo Troia, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of two vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the global assessment of Isoëtes todaroana Troìa & Raimondo and Moluccella bucharica (B.Fedtsch.) Ryding.

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Research Article Thu, 7 Jul 2022 11:04:40 +0300
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 13 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/86403/ Italian Botanist 13: 67-84

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.13.86403

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Sebastiano Andreatta, Carlo Argenti, Giovanni Astuti, Sandro Ballelli, Sergio Ballestrin, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Liliana Bernardo, Alessio Bertolli, Fabrizio Bonali, Federica Bonini, Thomas Bruschi, Giovanni Buccomino, Orazio Caldarella, Laura Cancellieri, Paolo Caputo, Fabio Conti, Antonietta Crisanti, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Francesco Falcinelli, Francesco Festi, Valentina Ferri, Goffredo Filibeck, Gabriele Galasso, Giovanni Gestri, Daniela Gigante, Leonardo Gubellini, Günter Gottschlich, Riccardo Guarino, Nicole Hofmann, Gergely Király, Paolo Laghi, Valerio Lazzeri, Michele Lonati, Fabio Luchino, Jacopo Lupoletti, Giacomo Mei, Marco Merli, Konrad Pagitz, Bruno Paura, Riccardo Pennesi, Enrico Vito Perrino, Antonio Pica, Brunello Pierini, Lorenzo Pinzani, Marco Pittarello, Safiya Praleskouskaya, Filippo Prosser, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Francesco Santi, Daniele Saiani, Anastasia Sebellin, Adriano Soldano, Tommaso Spilli, Adriano Stinca, Massimo Terzi, Manuel Tiburtini, Giulia Tomasi, Roberto Venanzoni, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and exclusions to the Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 1 Jun 2022 20:06:46 +0300
Spring composition of the macroalgal vegetation of a small offshore island in the north-western Mediterranean (Gallinara Island, Ligurian Sea) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/81812/ Italian Botanist 13: 45-65

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.13.81812

Authors: Fabio Rindi, Brigitte Gavio, Laura Pezzolesi, Daniela Pica, Massimo Ponti, Fabrizio Torsani, Carlo Cerrano

Abstract: Gallinara Island, a small island located 1.5 km off the shore of Liguria (Italy, north-western Mediterranean Sea) was included in a list of proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in the early 90s. Since then, its benthic assemblages have been studied in detail and the main macrophytic communities have been mapped. A detailed assessment of its benthic macroalgal flora, however, has never been made. Gallinara was visited in the course of 5 consecutive years and its macroalgal flora was studied based on collections made by snorkelling and SCUBA diving. Overall, 141 macroalgal taxa were collected and identified (23 Chlorophyta, 94 Rhodophyta, 24 Ochrophyta); 91 of them represent new records for the island. One of the most notable new records is the non-indigenous red alga Womersleyella setacea, previously unreported from the island and widely distributed, particularly on the south-eastern shore. Observations made in the course of the surveys confirm the rarefaction of some large-sized brown algae (particularly Sargassum vulgare) but indicate also that others previously reported as rare (Cystoseira compressa, Dictyopteris polypodioides) are still common on the island.

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Research Article Fri, 27 May 2022 19:13:34 +0300
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 13 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/85863/ Italian Botanist 13: 27-44

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.13.85863

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Claudia Angiolini, Dario Azzaro, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Giulio Barone, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Alessio Bertolli, Rossano Bolpagni, Gianmaria Bonari, Luca Bracchetti, Giacomo Calvia, Giuliano Campus, Laura Cancellieri, Viviana Cavallaro, Fabio Conti, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Evelina D’Alessandro, Giusy Dal Corso, Alice Dalla Vecchia, Antonino De Natale, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Giuseppe Di Gregorio, Emilio Di Gristina, Mario Di Stefano, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Alessandro Federici, Germano Federici, Giulio Ferretti, Francesco Festi, Tiberio Fiaschi, Goffredo Filibeck, Mauro Fois, Luca Gariboldi, Giovanni Gestri, Leonardo Gubellini, Alessandro Guiggi, Nicole Hofmann, Valentina L.A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Valerio Lazzeri, Angela P. Lecis, Michele Lonati, Fernando Lucchese, Jacopo Lupoletti, Samuele Maestri, Andrea Mainetti, Francesca Mantino, Francesco Mascia, Rizzieri R. Masin, Giacomo Mei, Marco Merli, Antonino Messina, Carmelo M. Musarella, Ginevra Nota, Nicola Olivieri, Bruno Paura, Roberto Pellegrini, Antonio Pica, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Safiya Praleskouskaya, Filippo Prosser, Giuseppe Ratini, Simone Ravetto Enri, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Giovanni Salerno, Alberto Selvaggi, Adriano Soldano, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Federico M. Tardella, Gianmarco Tavilla, Valeria Tomaselli, Giulia Tomasi, Luca Tosetto, Roberto Venanzoni, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 11 May 2022 11:39:39 +0300
Haplophyllum patavinum in its relic habitats on the Euganean Hills (northeastern Italy), 300 years after its discovery (1722–2022) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/83174/ Italian Botanist 13: 19-26

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.13.83174

Authors: Corrado Tietto

Abstract: This short paper outlines the discovery and current knowledge of the Euganean populations of Haplophyllum patavinum (L.) G.Don, 300 years after this species was found on the Euganean Hills (NE Italy) by botanists Pier Antonio Micheli and Giovanni Girolamo Zannichelli.

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Short Communication Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:44:34 +0300
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 13 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/82155/ Italian Botanist 13: 1-17

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.13.82155

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Alfredo Vizzini, Marta Puglisi, Silvia Assini, Renato Benesperi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Fabrizio Boccardo, Francesca Bottegoni, Wolfgang von Brackel, Marco Clericuzio, Valerii Darmostuk, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Luca Di Nuzzo, Francesco Dovana, Roberta Galli, Gabriele Gheza, Paolo Giordani, Anna Guttová, Deborah Isocrono, Jiří Malíček, Stefano Martellos, Helmut Mayrhofer, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Luca Paoli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Filippo Prosser, Domenico Puntillo, Linda Seggi, Giovanni Sicoli, Einar Timdal, Raffaella Trabucco, Chiara Vallese

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Bryum, Cryphaea, Didymodon, and Grimmia; the fungal genera Bryostigma, Cercidospora, Conocybe, Cortinarius, Endococcus, Inocybe, Psathyrella, and Sphaerellothecium; the lichen genera Agonimia, Anisomeridium, Bilimbia, Diplotomma, Gyalecta, Huneckia, Lecidella, Lempholemma, Myriolecis, Nephroma, Pannaria, Pycnothelia, Pyrrhospora, Rinodina, Stereocaulon, Thalloidima, Trapelia, Usnea, Variospora, and Verrucaria.

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Research Article Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:27:29 +0200
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 12 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/79031/ Italian Botanist 12: 123-131

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.79031

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Fabio Conti, Beatrice Cera, Antonio Giacò, Simone Orsenigo, Luca Sandroni, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes the first counts for Hieracium glanduliferum s.str. and H. tenuiflorum, counts for two Armeria species endemic to Italy, and for Onopordum illyricum subsp. illyricum. We also present here the first chromosome count of Allium permixtum for Italy, where this species is known for few localities.

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Research Article Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:45:24 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 12 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/78010/ Italian Botanist 12: 105-121

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.78010

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Claudia Angiolini, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Serlapo Bardi, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianmaria Bonari, Maurizio Bovio, Ian Briozzo, Giuseppe Brundu, Sergio Buono, Giacomo Calvia, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Alessia Cozzolino, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Michele Curuzzi, Francesco S. D’Amico, Davide Dagnino, Giuseppe De Fine, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Alessandro Federici, Paolo Ferraris, David Fiacchini, Tiberio Fiaschi, Mauro Fois, Leonardo Gubellini, Emilio Guidotti, Nicole Hofmann, Elisabeth Kindermann, Valentina L.A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Pierangelo Lanfredini, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Valerio Lazzeri, Michele Lonati, Mara Loreti, Vanessa Lozano, Sara Magrini, Andrea Mainetti, Mariano Marchini, Michela Marignani, Marco Martignoni, Giacomo Mei, Francesco Minutillo, Gian Paolo Mondino, Riccardo Motti, Carmelo M. Musarella, Ginevra Nota, Nicola Olivieri, Mattia Pallanza, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Glauco Patera, Nicola Pilon, Lorenzo Pinzani, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Massimiliano Probo, Simone Ravetto Enri, Leonardo Rosati, Piero Salerno, Alberto Selvaggi, Adriano Soldano, Giovanna Sotgiu Cocco, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Massimo Terzi, Giancarlo Tondi, Claudia Turcato, Camilla Wellstein, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Fri, 3 Dec 2021 12:12:29 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 12 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/78038/ Italian Botanist 12: 85-103

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.78038

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Carlo Argenti, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Sandro Ballelli, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Giuseppina Barberis, Alessio Bertolli, Rossano Bolpagni, Gianmaria Bonari, Federica Bonini, Ian Briozzo, Giuseppe Brundu, Thomas Bruschi, Mario Calbi, Michele Callegari, Giacomo Calvia, Davide Campoccia, Laura Cancellieri, Giacomo Cangelmi, Stefano Carfagno, Francesca Carruggio, Gabriele Casazza, Viviana Cavallaro, Salvatore Cherchi, Bernadette Ciocia, Fabio Conti, Alessandro Crisafulli, Davide Dagnino, Alice Dalla Vecchia, Giuseppe De Fine, Valerio Del Nero, Alfredo Di Filippo, Franz G. Dunkel, Francesco Festi, Goffredo Filibeck, Mauro Fois, Luigi Forte, Franca Fratolin, Gabriele Galasso, Daniela Gigante, Günter Gottschlich, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Pedro Jiménez-Mejías, Valentina L. A. Laface, Michele Lonati, Vanessa Lozano, Andrea Mainetti, Mauro Mariotti, Giacomo Mei, Francesco Minutillo, Luigi Minuto, Carmelo M. Musarella, Ginevra Nota, Simone Orsenigo, Mattia Pallanza, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Gaetano Pazienza, Lorenzo Pinzani, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Filippo Prosser, Simone Ravetto Enri, Giovanni Riva, Francesco Santi, Anna Scoppola, Alberto Selvaggi, Federico Selvi, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Valeria Tomaselli, Giulia Tomasi, Giancarlo Tondi, Claudia Turcato, Thomas Wilhalm, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:07:30 +0200
The alien vascular flora of Stromboli and Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/74033/ Italian Botanist 12: 63-75

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.74033

Authors: Emilio Di Gristina, Gianniantonio Domina, Giulio Barone

Abstract: The updated censuses of the alien flora of the islands of Stromboli and Vulcano, Aeolian Islands in the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, are presented here. They currently consist of 40 and 57 specific and subspecific taxa respectively. As many as 16 and 18 taxa respectively are new in comparison with the last censuses in 2016. Mesembryanthemum × vascosilvae, commonly cultivated in both islands, is reported for the first time as naturalized alien to Italy. Passiflora incarnata from Stromboli and Pelargonium graveolens from Vulcano are reported for the first time as casual aliens to Sicily. The evolution over time of these florulas, as inferred from the main floristic works published on these islands, is commented on. Biology, ecology and possible causes of settlement of these plants are discussed briefly.

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Research Article Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:35:53 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 12 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/76124/ Italian Botanist 12: 49-62

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.76124

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Silvia Assini, Matteo Barcella, Gabriele Berta, Fabrizio Boccardo, Ilaria Bonini, Francesca Bottegoni, Romina Ciotti, Marco Clericuzio, Annalena Cogoni, Davide Dagnino, Antonio De Agostini, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Francesco Dovana, Gabriele Gheza, Deborah Isocrono, Giovanni Maiorca, Mauro Mariotti, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Silvia Ongaro, Giulio Pandeli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Giovanna Pezzi, Silvia Poponessi, Filippo Prosser, Domenico Puntillo, Michele Puntillo, Giovanni Sicoli, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Vallese

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records, confirmations or exclusions for the bryophyte genera Acaulon, Campylopus, Entosthodon, Homomallium, Pseudohygrohypnum, and Thuidium, the fungal genera Entoloma, Cortinarius, Mycenella, Oxyporus, and Psathyrella and the lichen genera Anaptychia, Athallia, Baeomyces, Bagliettoa, Calicium, Nephroma, Pectenia, Phaeophyscia, Polyblastia, Protoparmeliopsis, Pyrenula, Ramalina, and Sanguineodiscus.

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Research Article Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:22:17 +0200
Notes on the distribution, ecology, associated vegetation and conservation status of Gymnadenia (Orchidaceae) in Kosovo https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/65699/ Italian Botanist 12: 1-27

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.65699

Authors: Naim Berisha, Kimete Lluga Rizani, Bujar Kadriaj, Fadil Millaku

Abstract: Four species of Gymnadenia are native to Kosovo: G. conopsea, G. frivaldii, G. nigra, and G. odoratissima. In this study, field expedition data, phytosociological relevés, herbarium specimens along with extensive literature sources were used to analyse vegetation and ecological characteristics, habitat types, distributional patterns as well as provide notes on conservation. Gymnadenia conopsea is distributed throughout the country, from lowlands to the alpine belt. It was recorded in various plant communities. Gymnadenia frivaldii grows in the alpine zone of mountains, close to streams and in wet meadows. Its relevés belong to the class Scheuchzerio-Caricetea fuscae. This species is classified as “Near Threatened” (NT) in Kosovo. Gymnadenia nigra grows in subalpine and alpine grassland on preferably calcareous substrate. It has been found in almost all mountains reaching >2000 m a.s.l., and occurs in different plant communities belonging to the class: Elyno-Seslerietea. Gymnadenia odoratissima was recorded from one locality only in Kosovo, on the massif of Maja e Zezë, Sharri Mts. It was growing in degraded beech forest and meadows on silicate bedrock. Its floristically diverse relevés associate with the class: Mulgedio-Aconitetea. Of the four studied species, G. frivaldii deserves more conservation attention because of its fragile populations.

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Research Article Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:50:40 +0300
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 11 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/70173/ Italian Botanist 11: 145-153

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.70173

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Giulio Barone, Emilio Di Gristina, Gianniantonio Domina, Antonio Giacò, Simone Orsenigo, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes counts for Centaurea aegusae, Hieracium racemosum subsp. lucanum, H. australe subsp. australe, Lysimachia arvensis subsp. arvensis, Micromeria graeca subsp. graeca, and M. graeca subsp. consentina.

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Research Article Thu, 1 Jul 2021 22:37:22 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 11 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/68678/ Italian Botanist 11: 131-143

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.68678

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Thomas Abeli, Hayder M. Al-Rammahi, Dario Azzaro, Salvatore Cambria, Martina D’Agostino, Mohammad K. Mohammad, Gianmarco Tavilla, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of three vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria is presented. It includes the global assessment of Limonium parvifolium Tineo and Viscaria alpina (L.) G.Don, and the regional assessment of Rhazya stricta Decne. (Iraq).

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Research Article Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:28:53 +0300
Molecular phylogeny and morphology of Pseudobaeospora cyanea https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/64863/ Italian Botanist 11: 121-129

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.64863

Authors: Dario Gisotti, Fabrizio Boccardo, Mirca Zotti, Simone Di Piazza

Abstract: Pseudobaeospora cyanea, a rare basidiomycete belonging to an underinvestigated genus, is currently recorded from only three localities of the Iberian Peninsula. Moreover, to date no sequences of this rare species have been deposited in GenBank. In this paper a new collection from NW Italy is reported with detailed morphological descriptions and iconography. The first ITS and LSU sequences for the species are provided and uploaded to GenBank, and the taxonomic placement of P. cyanea within the genus is discussed.

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Short Communication Fri, 21 May 2021 23:08:40 +0300
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 11 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/68063/ Italian Botanist 11: 93-119

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.68063

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Sebastiano Andreatta, Emmanuelle Argenti, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Simonetta Bagella, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Serlapo Bardi, Giulio Barone, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Alessio Bertolli, Nello Biscotti, Fabrizio Bonali, Federica Bonini, Daniele Bonsanto, Giuseppe Brundu, Sergio Buono, Orazio Caldarella, Giacomo Calvia, Salvatore Cambria, Giuliano Campus, Maria C. Caria, Fabio Conti, Andrea Coppi, Davide Dagnino, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Emilio Di Gristina, Emmanuele Farris, Giulio Ferretti, Francesco Festi, Mauro Fois, Fabrizio Furlani, Daniela Gigante, Riccardo Guarino, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Duilio Iamonico, Pedro Jiménez-Mejias, Alfonso La Rosa, Valentina L. A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Michele Lonati, Vanessa Lozano, Fabio Luchino, Jacopo Lupoletti, Sara Magrini, Andrea Mainetti, Dino Marchetti, Paolo Marenzi, Michela Marignani, Marco Martignoni, Giacomo Mei, Flavio Menini, Marco Merli, Michele Mugnai, Carmelo M. Musarella, Gianluca Nicolella, Amara Noor Hussain, Nicola Olivieri, Stefano Orlandini, Simonetta Peccenini, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Antonio Pica, Nicola Pilon, Lorenzo Pinzani, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Massimiliano Probo, Filippo Prosser, Claudio Raffaelli, Simone Ravetto Enri, Giovanni Rivieccio, Leonardo Rosati, Simona Sarmati, Filippo Scafidi, Federico Selvi, Alexander N. Sennikov, Giovanna Sotgiu Cocco, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Gianmarco Tavilla, Valeria Tomaselli, Davide Tomasi, Giulia Tomasi, Maurizio Trenchi, Claudia Turcato, Filip Verloove, Daniele Viciani, Milena Villa, Robert P. Wagensommer, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Fri, 21 May 2021 22:47:23 +0300
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 11 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/68048/ Italian Botanist 11: 77-92

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.68048

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Sebastiano Andreatta, Carlo Argenti, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Sandro Ballelli, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Giuseppina Barberis, Gianni Bedini, Rossano Bolpagni, Fabrizio Bonali, Maurizio Bovio, Ian Briozzo, Agostino Brusco, Orazio Caldarella, Giuliano Campus, Laura Cancellieri, Luciana Carotenuto, Emanuele Cheli, Davide Dagnino, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Emmanuele Farris, Giulio Ferretti, Goffredo Filibeck, Bruno Foggi, Antonio Gabellini, Gabriele Galasso, Lorenzo Gianguzzi, Günter Gottschlich, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Duilio Iamonico, Valentina L. A. Laface, Michele Lonati, Domenico Lucarini, Jacopo Lupoletti, Roberto Marchianò, Paolo Marenzi, Marco Martignoni, Giacomo Mei, Flavio Menini, Marco Merli, Carmelo M. Musarella, Simone Orsenigo, Simonetta Peccenini, Riccardo Pennesi, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Antonio Pica, Lorenzo Pinzani, Gianluca Piovesan, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Simone Ravetto Enri, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Leonardo Rosati, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Sarah Tonelli, Maurizio Trenchi, Claudia Turcato, Daniele Viciani, Lorenzo Lastrucci

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions. A new combination in the genus Pilosella is proposed. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 19 May 2021 17:28:20 +0300
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 11 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/64557/ Italian Botanist 11: 45-61

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.64557

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Michele Aleffi, Renato Benesperi, Giovanni Bergamo Decarli, Gabriele Berta, Elisabetta Bianchi, Fabrizio Boccardo, Ian Briozzo, Marco Clericuzio, Annalena Cogoni, Antonio Croce, Davide Dagnino, Antonio De Agostini, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Luca Di Nuzzo, Francesco Dovana, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Gabriele Gheza, Stefano Loppi, Jiri Malicek, Mauro Mariotti, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Luca Paoli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Vítězslav Plášek, Silvia Poponessi, Filippo Prosser, Domenico Puntillo, Michele Puntillo, Simone Rovito, Francesco Sguazzin, Giovanni Sicoli, Manuel Tiburtini, Valeria Tomaselli, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Vallese

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi, and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Aneura, Aulacomnium, Dumortiera, Fossombronia, Hennediella, Hygrohypnella, Pohlia, Porella, Riccardia, Tortella, and Tortula, the fungal genera Cortinarius, Mycena, Naucoria, Trichoglossum, and Tubaria and the lichen genera Agonimia, Blastenia, Chaenotheca, Cladonia, Endocarpon, Gyalecta, Lecanographa, Parmeliella, Porpidia, Stenhammarella, and Thelidium.

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Research Article Wed, 7 Apr 2021 19:18:39 +0300
Non-indigenous macroalgal species in coralligenous habitats of the Marine Protected Area Isole Ciclopi (Sicily, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/60474/ Italian Botanist 11: 31-44

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.60474

Authors: Luca Giuseppe Costanzo, Giuliana Marletta, Giuseppina Alongi

Abstract: Biological invasions are considered one of the main threats for biodiversity. In the last decades, more than 60 macroalgae have been introduced in the Mediterranean Sea, causing serious problems in coastal areas. Nevertheless, the impacts of alien macroalgae in deep subtidal systems have been poorly studied, especially in the coralligenous habitats of the eastern coast of Sicily (Italy). Therefore, within the framework of the programme “Progetto Operativo di Monitoraggio (P.O.M.)” of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the aim of the present study was to gain knowledge on the alien macroalgae present in coralligenous habitats of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) Isole Ciclopi, along the Ionian coast of Sicily. By Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) videos and destructive samples analysed in the laboratory, five alien species were identified: Caulerpa cylindracea, Antithamnion amphigeneum, Asparagopsis armata, Bonnemaisonia hamifera, and Lophocladia lallemandii. Since A. amphigeneum was previously reported only in the western Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea, the present report represents the first record of this species in the eastern Mediterranean. The ROV surveys showed that the alien species do not have a high coverage and do not appear to be invasive in the coralligenous area of the MPA. Since ocean temperatures are predicted to increase as climate change continues and alien species are favoured by warming of the Mediterranean Sea, the risk of biotic homogenisation caused by the spread of alien species is realistic. Therefore, further studies are needed to assess the incidence and invasiveness of alien species in phytobenthic assemblages of coralligenous in the MPA.

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Research Article Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:52:08 +0200
Remnants of naturalness in a reclaimed land of central Italy https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/62040/ Italian Botanist 11: 9-30

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.62040

Authors: Gianmaria Bonari, Tiberio Fiaschi, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Simona Sarmati, Enrico Banfi, Marco Biagioli, Stefan Zerbe, Claudia Angiolini

Abstract: Wetlands are among the most fragile habitats on Earth and have often undergone major environmental changes. As a study case in this context, the present work aims at increasing the floristic knowledge of a reclaimed land now turned into an agricultural lowland with scarce patches of natural habitats. The study area is named Piana di Rosia, and it is located in southern Tuscany (Italy). The compiled checklist consists of 451 specific and subspecific taxa of vascular plants. The life-form spectrum shows a predominance of hemicryptophytes, followed by therophytes. The chorological spectrum highlights a co-dominance of Euri-Mediterranean and Eurasian species along with many widely distributed species. The checklist includes seven species of conservation concern, three Italian endemics (Crocus etruscus Parl., Polygala vulgaris L. subsp. valdarnensis (Fiori) Arrigoni, and Scabiosa uniseta Savi), 41 alien species, 21 segetal species, and 11 aquatic macrophytes of which five helophytes and six hydrophytes. This study suggests that irreversible land-use changes in wetlands can lead towards a simplification of the flora. However, despite the deep transformations that the former wetland has undergone, the presence of some aquatic and protected taxa is interesting. From a conservation point of view, the natural value of this agricultural area could be enhanced and its current management partly reconsidered, thus preserving the remnants of naturalness present.

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Research Article Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:51:35 +0200
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 10 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/61847/ Italian Botanist 10: 113-122

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.61847

Authors: Romeo Di Pietro, Antonio L. Conte, Paola Fortini, Gianni D’Amato, Giovanni Astuti

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data regarding two taxonomically critical genera of the Italian flora, namely Plantago and Sesleria, are presented. All the specimens analysed in this paper were collected in the Italian territory and include three chromosome counts for Plantago (P. albicans, P. crassifolia, and P. subulata) and two counts for Sesleria (S. caerulea and S. nitida).

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Research Article Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:08:06 +0200
Contribution to the floristic knowledge of Sillaro, Santerno, and Senio high valleys (Toscana, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/60118/ Italian Botanist 10: 101-111

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.60118

Authors: Francesco Roma-Marzio, Marco D'Antraccoli, Daniele Angeloni, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Liliana Bernardo, Laura Cancellieri, Giuseppe Caruso, Fabio Conti, David Dolci, Giovanni Gestri, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Valentina L.A. Laface, Edda Lattanzi, Paolo Lavezzo, Giovanni Maiorca, Giulia Montepaone, Carmelo M. Musarella, Domenico Noto, Enrico V. Perrino, Elisa Proietti, Rizzieri R. Masin, Anna Scoppola, Adriano Stinca, Manuel Tiburtini, Agnese Tilia, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: The inventory of the taxa collected during the annual field trip of the working group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society is reported. The field trip was held in 2019 along the Sillaro, Santerno, and Senio high valleys located in Toscana (central Italy). The flora documented for the studied area amounts to 492 specific and subspecific taxa (including five hybrids), belonging to 254 genera and 77 families. Bromopsis caprina, Ophrys appennina, O. classica, Polygala flavescens subsp. flavescens, and Pulmonaria vallarsae subsp. apennina were the only five Italian endemics found in the study area, whereas 28 alien taxa were detected. Finally, nine taxa (seven native and two alien) have to be considered as new records for the regional flora of Toscana.

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Research Article Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:15:50 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 10 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/59352/ Italian Botanist 10: 83-99

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.59352

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Cecilia Totti, Giuseppina Barberis, Elisabetta Bianchi, Angelo Boemo, Ilaria Bonini, Daniela Bouvet, Claudia Cocozza, Davide Dagnino, Luca Di Nuzzo, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Gabriele Gheza, Stefano Gianfreda, Paolo Giordani, Andreas Hilpold, Pilar Hurtado, Heribert Köckinger, Deborah Isocrono, Stefano Loppi, Jiri Malicek, Cosimo Matino, Luigi Minuto, Juri Nascimbene, Giulio Pandeli, Luca Paoli, Domenico Puntillo, Michele Puntillo, Augusta Rossi, Francesco Sguazzin, Daniel Spitale, Simon Stifter, Claudia Turcato, Sara Vazzola

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning red algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the algal genus Thorea, for the bryophyte genera Ephemerum, Hedwigia, Pogonatum, Riccia, Sphagnum, and Tortella, the fungal genera Pileolaria and Sporisorium, and the lichen genera Bacidia, Cerothallia, Chaenotheca, Cladonia, Halecania, Lecanora, Phylloblastia, Physcia, Protoparmelia, Pycnora, Segestria, and Sphaerophorus.

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Research Article Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:59:43 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 10 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/60736/ Italian Botanist 10: 57-71

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.60736

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Dario Azzaro, Simonetta Bagella, Giulio Barone, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Mattia Bianco, Paola Bolzani, Gianmaria Bonari, Francesco Boscutti, Sergio Buono, Carlo Cibei, Fabio Conti, Emilio Di Gristina, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Jacopo Franzoni, Valeria Giacanelli, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Valentina L. A. Laface, Marta Latini, Francesco Liccari, Michele Lonati, Daniela Longo, Loredana Lunesu, Jacopo Lupoletti, Sara Magrini, Giacomo Mei, Giuliano Mereu, Fabio Miconi, Carmelo M. Musarella, Gianluca Nicolella, Nicola Olivieri, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Antonio Pica, Lorenzo Pinzani, Marco Pittarello, Filippo Prosser, Veronica Ranno, Simone Ravetto Enri, Giovanni Rivieccio, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Filippo Scafidi, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Gianmarco Tavilla, Manuel Tiburtini, Milena Villa, Camilla Wellstein, Stefan Zerbe, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:38:44 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 10 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/60743/ Italian Botanist 10: 47-55

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.60743

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Simonetta Bagella, Giuseppina Barberis, Ian Briozzo, Mario Calbi, Maria C. Caria, Viviana Cavallaro, Giuseppina Chianese, Carlo Cibei, Fabio Conti, Davide Dagnino, Assunta Esposito, Gabriele Galasso, Valeria Giacanelli, Luigi Forte, Günter Gottschlich, Edda Lattanzi, Daniela Longo, Giacomo Mei, Marco Merli, Simone Orsenigo, Gian Battista Pau, Gaetano Pazienza, Simonetta Peccenini, Stefania Pisanu, Giovanni Rivieccio, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Filippo Scafidi, Federico Selvi, Adriano Stinca, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Artemisia, Chaetonychia, Cirsium, Cynanchum, Genista, Hieracium, Iberis, Melica, Misopates, Myosotis, Thalictrum, Trifolium, Utricularia, Veronica, and Vicia. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:01:32 +0200
Bryophyte diversity hotspot: the Marmore Waterfalls Regional Park (Umbria, central Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/54885/ Italian Botanist 10: 33-45

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.54885

Authors: Silvia Poponessi, Michele Aleffi, Marko S. Sabovljević, Roberto Venanzoni

Abstract: A study of the bryophyte of Marmore Waterfall Natural Park a very peculiar territory for its geological, biogeographical and bioclimatic traits, was carried out. The reported data were collected in the valley area of ‘Parco Fluviale del Nera’ Regional Park, where the waters are flowing and the humidity of the rocks is oozing. Research led to the identification of 101 taxa of bryophytes (21 liverworts and 80 mosses), among which two liverwort and 10 moss species are new records for the Umbria region, while four are confirmed. The study offers new outcomes on neglected aspects of the flora of central Italy and represents a considerable improvement of the floristic, biogeographical and ecological understanding of its bryophytic component. Additionally, the area turn out to be significant from the conservation point of view both nationally and internationally considering that it harbours high diversity of bryophytes species among which many rare, threatened and interesting species occur. Eighteen species of conservation interest in Italy are recorded during the latest investigation (all in category NT – near threatened). Additionally two species that are considered data deficient in Italy are present in the researched area (Conocephalum salebrosum and Fissidens curvatus). Also, there is a small populations of a species vulnerable (Marchantia paleacea), endangered (Bryum calophyllum) and data deficient (Fissidens curvatus and Barbula bolleana) in European scale.

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Research Article Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:33:36 +0300
Anthyllis cytisoides L. (Fabaceae), new to the Italian native flora https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/55154/ Italian Botanist 10: 25-31

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.55154

Authors: Federico Selvi

Abstract: We present the first finding of Anthyllis cytisoides L. in Italy. This western Mediterranean woody species was found close to the coastline on the southwest side of Mt. Argentario in southern Tuscany, on limestone rocks within a xerophytic garrigue community of the Erico multiflorae-Rosmarinetum officinali association. A description of the plant is given along with an original iconography and photos taken in the field. The reasons for considering this population of natural origin are briefly discussed, along with the possible causes of its wide disjunction from the rest of the species range.

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Research Article Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:30:51 +0300
The Majella National Park: a case study for the conservation of plant biodiversity in the Italian Apennines https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/52952/ Italian Botanist 10: 1-24

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.52952

Authors: Valter Di Cecco, Marco Di Santo, Michele Di Musciano, Aurelio Manzi, Mirella Di Cecco, Giampiero Ciaschetti, Giuseppe Marcantonio, Luciano Di Martino

Abstract: The Majella National Park (MNP) is a tangible example of the interaction between ex-situ and in-situ conservation of endemic, rare, or endangered species at a Regional level in the context of the Italian national parks. The MNP has the facilities and carries out activities for the conservation of plant biodiversity: it includes botanical gardens, a seed bank, a nursery, and a network of “guardian farmers”, an authentic “granary” in which to protect and conserve biodiversity in and around the Majella massif (central Italy).

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Checklist Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:25:30 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 9 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/55223/ Italian Botanist 9: 111-123

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.55223

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Liliana Bernardo, Salvatore Cambria, Domenico Gargano, Valentina L.A. Laface, Carmelo M. Musarella, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Giovanni Spampinato, Gianmarco Tavilla, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of three vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Soldanella calabrella Kress at global level, and the regional assessment of Luzula pindica (Hausskn.) Chrtek & Křísa and Romulea variicolor Mifsud (Italy).

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Research Article Mon, 13 Jul 2020 23:02:24 +0300
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 9 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/54973/ Italian Botanist 9: 101-110

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.54973

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Gianni Bedini, Daniela Ciccarelli, Lijuan Liu, Manuel Tiburtini, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes counts from six populations of three taxa within the genus Pulmonaria, two of which are endemic to Italy (P. vallarsae subsp. apennina and P. vallarsae subsp. vallarsae); the other is the widespread European P. officinalis. In addition, two counts from Potentilla detommasii and Stachys thirkei, two eastern Mediterranean species, are also reported.

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Research Article Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:42:56 +0300
An updated checklist of the vascular flora of Montagna di Torricchio State Nature Reserve (Marche, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/50032/ Italian Botanist 9: 87-100

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.50032

Authors: Sandro Ballelli, Riccardo Pennesi, Giandiego Campetella, Marco Cervellini, Stefano Chelli, Kevin Cianfaglione, Domenico Lucarini, Karina Piermarteri, Federico Maria Tardella, Andrea Catorci, Roberto Canullo

Abstract: This study aims to increase floristic knowledge of Marche by means of a survey in the Montagna di Torricchio State Nature Reserve (central Italy). The Reserve, located in the central Apennines, covers about 3.2 km2 at altitudes ranging from 820 to 1,491 m a.s.l. It has been owned and managed as a strict reserve by the University of Camerino since 1970: all the anthropic activities ceased about 50 years ago, except for a minimal area where mowing and cattle grazing are still allowed. The floristic list consists of 789 specific and subspecific taxa belonging to 81 families and 352 genera. Two species are new for Italy (Taraxacum calocarpum and T. pulchrifolium) and 14 for Marche regional flora. Compared to previous floristic studies, we found 127 more taxa but we showed a certain stability in the life-form spectrum, suggesting limited effects of dynamic processes related to climate and land-use changes. The negligible number of alien species (11) is probably related to the limitations to anthropic activities in the Reserve. The occurrence of taxa never recorded for Italy and Marche highlights the floristic value of the Reserve for species conservation in the central Apennines.

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Research Article Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:55:28 +0300
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 9 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/53429/ Italian Botanist 9: 71-86

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.53429

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Sebastiano Andreatta, Roberto Angius, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Sandro Ballelli, Enrico Banfi, Davide Barberis, Giuseppina Barberis, Liliana Bernardo, Alessio Bertolli, Gianmaria Bonari, Maurizio Bovio, Ian Briozzo, Giovanni Buccomino, Giacomo Calvia, Giuseppina Chianese, Carlo Cibei, Fabio Conti, Maurizio Copez, Antonietta Crisanti, Davide Dagnino, Alfredo Di Filippo, Assunta Esposito, Simonetta Fanni, Francesco Festi, Luigi Forte, Gabriele Galasso, Rodolfo Gentili, Günter Gottschlich, Edda Lattanzi, Paola Liguori, Maria Carmine Locci, Daniela Longo, Michele Lonati, Fernando Lucchese, Dino Marchetti, Mauro Giorgio Mariotti, Flavio Menini, Luigi Minuto, Giovanna Orrù, Maria Loredana Pala, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Mariangela Pellegrino, Riccardo Pennesi, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Lorenzo Pinzani, Gina Pirastru, Filippo Prosser, Simone Ravetto Enri, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Giovanni Russo, Anna Scoppola, Giuseppe Silletti, Adriano Stinca, Chiara Toffolo, Valeria Tomaselli, Giancarlo Tondi, Maurizio Trenchi, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions. Two new combinations are proposed. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 13 May 2020 19:35:34 +0300
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 9 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/52762/ Italian Botanist 9: 35-46

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.52762

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Alfredo Vizzini, Marta Puglisi, Slavomir Adamčík, Michele Aleffi, Gaetano Aloise, Fabrizio Boccardo, Ilaria Bonini, Miroslav Caboň, Immacolata Catalano, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Luca Di Nuzzo, Francesco Dovana, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Gabriele Gheza, Stefano Gianfreda, Carmine Guarino, Anna Guttová, Raffaello Jon, Jiří Malíček, Mario Marziano, Cosimo Matino, Pier Luigi Nimis, Giulio Pandeli, Luca Paoli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Elena Pittao, Silvia Poponessi, Domenico Puntillo, Francesco Sguazzin, Giovanni Sicoli, Chiara Vallese

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi, and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Encalypta, Grimmia, and Riccia, for the fungal genera Hericium, Inocybe, Inocutis, Pluteus, and Russula, and for the lichen genera Bryoria, Farnoldia, Hypocenomyce, Lecania, Paracollema, Peltigera, Sarcogyne, and Teloschistes.

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Research Article Wed, 13 May 2020 18:14:23 +0300
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 9 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/53401/ Italian Botanist 9: 47-70

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.53401

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Claudia Angiolini, Massimiliano Apruzzese, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Silvia Assini, Maria Aversa, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Banfi, Giuseppina Barberis, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Liliana Bernardo, Alessio Bertolli, Fabrizio Bonali, Gianmaria Bonari, Ilaria Bonini, Francesco Bracco, Giuseppe Brundu, Giovanni Buccomino, Sergio Buono, Giacomo Calvia, Salvatore Cambria, Paolo Castagnini, Simona Ceschin, Davide Dagnino, Emilio Di Gristina, Alessandra Di Turi, Simonetta Fascetti, Giulio Ferretti, Mauro Fois, Rodolfo Gentili, Gabriele Gheza, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Duilio Iamonico, Alessio Ilari, Angéla Király, Gergely Király, Valentina L.A. Laface, Andrea Lallai, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Michele Lonati, Daniela Longo, Vanessa Lozano, Jacopo Lupoletti, Sara Magrini, Andrea Mainetti, Manuela Manca, Dino Marchetti, Flaminia Mariani, Mauro G. Mariotti, Rizzieri R. Masin, Giacomo Mei, Flavio Menini, Marco Merli, Andrea Milani, Luigi Minuto, Michele Mugnai, Carmelo M. Musarella, Nicola Olivieri, Livio Onnis, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Simonetta Peccenini, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Antonio Pica, Lorenzo Pinzani, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Filippo Prosser, Simone Ravetto Enri, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Leonardo Rosati, Marco Sarigu, Filippo Scafidi, Saverio Sciandrello, Alberto Selvaggi, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Gianmarco Tavilla, Chiara Toffolo, Giulia Tomasi, Claudia Turcato, Clizia Villano, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Furthermore, three new combinations are proposed. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Wed, 13 May 2020 13:47:34 +0300
Assessment of the ecological structure of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile on the northern coast of Lazio, Italy (central Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/46426/ Italian Botanist 9: 1-19

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.9.46426

Authors: Valentina Gnisci, Selvaggia Cognetti de Martiis, Alessandro Belmonte, Carla Micheli, Viviana Piermattei, Simone Bonamano, Marco Marcelli

Abstract: The ecological structure of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile meadows was evaluated on the northern coast of Lazio, Italy (central Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean sea). This is an infra-littoral zone with a wide range of anthropogenic activities and high geo-morphological variability, which reflects heterogeneity in shoot density, leaf morphology and biomass in fragmented patches. Genetic variability in populations corresponds to the formation of 3 sub-clusters, in the diverse impacted zones (north, centre and south), being correlated to the geographical distance between sites. AMOVA estimated a high genetic variation showing 43.05% individual differences within populations with a marked differentiation among the populations (56.9%) indicated by Fst value (0.57). These results revealed the role of the genetic structure of seagrasses for determining selectivity of fragmented habitat, in response to natural drivers. They showed that site-specific self-recruitment is related to biodiversity capacity and to the geo-morphological characteristic of the coast.

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Research Article Thu, 9 Jan 2020 01:30:00 +0200
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 8 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/49156/ Italian Botanist 8: 117-121

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.49156

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Liliana Bernardo, Fabio Conti, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes three chromosome counts from two taxa endemic to Southern Italy (Centaurea subtilis and Onobrychis alba subsp. echinata) and one species (Poa ligulata) occurring in Italy with only one recently discovered population.

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Research Article Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:46:53 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 8 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/48626/ Italian Botanist 8: 95-116

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.48626

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Giovanni Bacaro, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Franco Ballarin, Enrico Banfi, Giuseppina Barberis, Leonardo Beccarisi, Liliana Bernardo, Gianmaria Bonari, Federica Bonini, Salvatore Brullo, Sergio Buono, Vito Buono, Mario Calbi, Franco Caldararo, Giacomo Calvia, Laura Cancellieri, Serafino Cannavò, Davide Dagnino, Assunta Esposito, Simonetta Fascetti, Goffredo Filibeck, Graziana Fiorini, Luigi Forte, Gabriele Galasso, Giovanni Gestri, Daniela Gigante, Günter Gottschlich, Leonardo Gubellini, Nicole Hofmann, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Michele Lonati, Richard Lorenz, Livia Lunardi, Sara Magrini, Andrea Mainetti, Giovanni Maiorca, Giuliano Mereu, Rita T. Messa Ballarin, Luigi Minuto, Sara Mossini, Carmelo M. Musarella, Pier Luigi Nimis, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Simonetta Peccenini, Bruno Petriglia, Lina Podda, Giovanna Potenza, Simone Ravetto Enri, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Leonardo Rosati, Alessandro Ruggero, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Manuel Tiburtini, Corrado Tietto, Valeria Tomaselli, Claudia Turcato, Daniele Viciani, Robert P. Wagensommer, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Ajuga, Chamaemelum, Clematis, Convolvulus, Cytisus, Deschampsia, Eleocharis, Epipactis, Euphorbia, Groenlandia, Hedera, Hieracium, Hydrocharis, Jacobaea, Juncus, Klasea, Lagurus, Leersia, Linum, Nerium, Onopordum, Persicaria, Phlomis, Polypogon, Potamogeton, Securigera, Sedum, Soleirolia, Stachys, Umbilicus, Valerianella, and Vinca. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:16:02 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 8 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/48621/ Italian Botanist 8: 63-93

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.48621

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Sebastiano Andreatta, Claudia Angiolini, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Claudio Aristarchi, Matteo Arnoul, Mattia M. Azzella, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Silvia Bodino, Giacomo Bommartini, Gianmaria Bonari, Sergio Buono, Vito Buono, Orazio Caldarella, Giacomo Calvia, Emilio Corti, Marco D'Antraccoli, Rocco De Luca, Fabrizio De Mattia, Stefano Di Natale, Alessandra Di Turi, Assunta Esposito, Giulio Ferretti, Tiberio Fiaschi, Maria C. Fogu, Luigi Forte, Jessica Frigerio, Leonardo Gubellini, Lorenzo Guzzetti, Nicole Hofmann, Valentina L. A. Laface, Gaetano Laghetti, Andrea Lallai, Alfonso La Rosa, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Silvano Lodetti, Michele Lonati, Fabio Luchino, Sara Magrini, Andrea Mainetti, Michela Marignani, Gina Maruca, Pietro Medagli, Giacomo Mei, Flavio Menini, Valerio Mezzasalma, Alice Misuri, Sara Mossini, Michele Mugnai, Carmelo M. Musarella, Ginevra Nota, Nicola Olivieri, Alessia Padula, Marziano Pascale, Federico Pasquini, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Gianni Picella, Lorenzo Pinzani, Silvia Pirani, Marco Pittarello, Lina Podda, Simone Ravetto Enri, Carmelo D. Rifici, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Rosario Romano, Leonardo Rosati, Filippo Scafidi, Enrico Scarici, Marco Scarici, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Robert P. Wagensommer, Giovanni Zanoni, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Bunias, Calocedrus, Calycanthus, Celosia, Clerodendrum, Convolvulus, Crassula, Cyclamen, Datura, Dicliptera, Eragrostis, Erigeron, Gamochaeta, Gazania, Impatiens, Kolkwitzia, Leucaena, Ludwigia, Medicago, Muscari, Nigella, Oenothera, Opuntia, Paulownia, Petroselinum, Phyllostachys, Physalis, Pseudosasa, Quercus, Reynoutria, Roldana, Saccharum, Sedum, Semiarundinaria, Senecio, Sisyrinchium, Solanum, Sporobolus, Tulipa, Vachellia, Verbena, and Youngia. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:36:08 +0200
Light intensity affects leaf morphology in a wild population of Adenostyles alliariae (Asteraceae) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/39393/ Italian Botanist 8: 35-45

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.39393

Authors: Bailey Francis, Robert Tucker Gilman

Abstract: Low light conditions can impose environmental stress on plants, and plants often respond adaptively by increasing their leaf area. Light stress on plants can also result in developmental instability, which can manifest as increased fluctuating asymmetry in leaves or other organs. The relationship between light conditions and fluctuating asymmetry has been documented in experimental populations, but has been less frequently observed in the wild. Here, we studied how leaf surface area and fluctuating asymmetry correlate with light intensity in a wild population of Adenostyles alliariae (Asteraceae). We found strong evidence that leaf surface area increases and weak evidence that fluctuating asymmetry increases as light intensity decreases. Our results help to elucidate the relationship between light stress and developmental instability under naturally occurring conditions.

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Research Article Wed, 4 Dec 2019 18:22:38 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 8 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/48263/ Italian Botanist 8: 47-62

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.48263

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Cecilia Totti, Gabriella Arosio, Renato Benesperi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Fabrizio Boccardo, Ian Briozzo, Davide Dagnino, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Francesco Dovana, Luca Di Nuzzo, Simonetta Fascetti, Gabriele Gheza, Paolo Giordani, Jiří Malíček, Mauro Giorgio Mariotti, Helmut Mayrhofer, Luigi Minuto, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Stefano Martellos, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Elena Pittao, Giovanna Potenza, Domenico Puntillo, Leonardo Rosati, Giovanni Sicoli, Daniel Spitale, Valeria Tomaselli, Raffaella Trabucco, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Vallese, Maria Zardini

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning algae, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the algae genus Chara, the bryophyte genera Homalia, Mannia, and Tortella, the fungal genera Cortinarius, Russula, and Stereum, and the lichen genera Cetrelia, Cladonia, Enterographa, Graphis, Lecanora, Lepraria, Multiclavula, Mycomicrothelia, Parmelia, Peltigera, Pleopsidium, Psora, Scytinium, Umbilicaria, and Rhizocarpon.

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Research Article Wed, 4 Dec 2019 08:34:33 +0200
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 8 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/47330/ Italian Botanist 8: 17-33

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.47330

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Liliana Bernardo, Roberta Calvo, Pierluigi Cortis, Antonio De Agostini, Carmen Gangale, Domenico Gargano, Maria Letizia Gargano, Michele Lussu, Pietro Medagli, Enrico Vito Perrino, Saverio Sciandrello, Robert P. Wagensommer, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Ophrys normanii J.J.Wood at global level, and the regional assessment of Genista anglica L., Helianthemum lippii (L.) Dum.Cours., and Scrophularia lucida L. (Italy).

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Research Article Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:01:00 +0200
Contribution to the floristic knowledge of eastern Irpinia and Vulture-Melfese area (Campania and Basilicata, southern Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/37818/ Italian Botanist 8: 1-16

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.8.37818

Authors: Adriano Stinca, Giuseppina Chianese, Giuseppe D’Auria, Simonetta Fascetti, Maria Ravo, Vito Antonio Romano, Giovanni Salerno, Giovanni Astuti, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Liliana Bernardo, Gianmaria Bonari, Daniela Bouvet, Laura Cancellieri, Emanuela Carli, Giuseppe Caruso, Immacolata Catalano, Gennaro Domenico Cennamo, Giampiero Ciaschetti, Fabio Conti, Romeo Di Pietro, Paola Fortini, Carmen Gangale, Maria Rita Lapenna, Edda Lattanzi, Rossella Marcucci, Simonetta Peccenini, Riccardo Pennesi, Enrico Vito Perrino, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Anna Scoppola, Agnese Tilia, Mariacristina Villani, Leonardo Rosati

Abstract: In order to improve the floristic knowledge of the Italian territory, we report the inventory of the taxa collected during the annual field trip of the working group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society held in 2015 in eastern Irpinia and Vulture-Melfese area (South Italy). The investigated territories are located in southern Apennines, along the border between the Campania and Basilicata administrative regions. These areas are scarcely known in terms of vascular flora. The floristic samplings were performed in 19 sites selected as representative of the local environmental diversity as regards to climate, litho-morphology and land-use. The research led to the identification of 4,137 specimens of vascular plants, belonging to 815 species and subspecies, 399 genera, and 85 families. Among these taxa, 42 were endemic to Italy, 38 were included in the IUCN Red List of the Italian Flora, 28 were alien and 5 were cryptogenic in Campania and/or Basilicata administrative regions. Two taxa, Aquilegia coerulea (casual alien, native to North America) and Lolium × boucheanum (native), were found to be new for Italy. On the basis of the available floristic literature the first one is also to be considered new for the European flora. At regional scale, we have found 18 taxa new for the Campania and 15 new for the Basilicata region. Finally, 10 taxa were confirmed for Campania. Data obtained during this study, confirmed the important role of a collaborative approach among botanists and the great relevance of these territories for plant diversity.

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Research Article Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:08:37 +0300
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 7 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/36004/ Italian Botanist 7: 183-187

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.36004

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Lijuan Liu, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes a total of 105 chromosome counts for three populations of Pulmonaria vallarsae A.Kern. subsp. apennina (Cristof. & Puppi) Cecchi & Selvi and for three populations of P. hirta L.

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Research Article Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:22:24 +0300
Epiphytic lichens of the sacred natural site “Bosco di Sant’Antonio” (Majella National Park – Abruzzo) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/34639/ Italian Botanist 7: 149-156

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.34639

Authors: Juri Nascimbene, Valter Di Cecco, Luciano Di Martino, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Paolo Giordani, Chiara Lelli, Chiara Vallese, Piero Zannini, Alessandro Chiarucci

Abstract: Sacred Natural Sites are relevant for biodiversity conservation, as in the case of forest sites that, across centuries, developed old growth structures and are now crucial for the conservation of epiphytic lichens and other specialized forest organisms. In this study, we investigated the epiphytic lichen flora of a small forest patch included in the Majella National Park (Abruzzo), whose old growth features and naturalness reflect its long lasting spiritual role that perfectly fits with the concept of Sacred Natural Site. Results revealed that the “Bosco di Sant’Antonio” hosts a rich and interesting epiphytic lichen flora, thus indicating the potential of this Sacred Natural Site for lichen conservation. Fifty-six species were found including two species newly recorded in Abruzzo, two red-listed species, and the sensitive species Lobaria pulmonaria. This study corroborates the hypothesis that sacred forest sites are relevant for the conservation of specialized epiphytic lichens. In particular, in the Italian forest landscape where old-growth stands are practically absent, sacred forest sites may provide unique old-growth structures and buffer anthropogenic disturbance.

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Research Article Tue, 11 Jun 2019 23:27:18 +0300
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 7 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/36386/ Italian Botanist 7: 157-182

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.36386

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Claudio Aristarchi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianmaria Bonari, Daniela Bouvet, Giuseppe Brundu, Sergio Buono, Orazio Caldarella, Giacomo Calvia, Ana Cano-Ortiz, Emilio Corti, Francesco S. D’Amico, Marco D’Antraccoli, Alessandra Di Turi, Moreno Dutto, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Giulio Ferretti, Tiberio Fiaschi, Claudia Ganz, Riccardo Guarino, Mauro Iberite, Valentina L.A. Laface, Alfonso La Rosa, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Marta Latini, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Michele Lonati, Vanessa Lozano, Fabio Luchino, Sara Magrini, Andrea Mainetti, Manuela Manca, Michele Mugnai, Carmelo M. Musarella, Gianluca Nicolella, Nicola Olivieri, Ines Orrù, Gaetano Pazienza, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Lina Podda, Filippo Prosser, Simone Ravetto Enri, Silvana Restivo, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Alessandro Ruggero, Anna Scoppola, Federico Selvi, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Massimo Terzi, Manuel Tiburtini, Emilia Tornatore, Roberto Vetromile, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Abies, Actinidia, Aloe, Amaryllis, Anredera, Arctotheca, Bidens, Cardiospermum, Celosia, Commelina, Cotoneaster, Cyclamen, Eclipta, Euphorbia, Grevillea, Hedera, Hibiscus, Impatiens, Juglans, Kalanchoe, Koelreuteria, Lindernia, Melinis, Myriophyllum, Nandina, Nicotiana, Oenothera, Oxalis, Parthenocissus, Phoenix, Phyllanthus, Physalis, Plumbago, Pteris, Quercus, Setaria, Symphytum, Tagetes, and Washingtonia. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:12:03 +0300
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 7 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/36148/ Italian Botanist 7: 125-148

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.36148

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Alessandro Alessandrini, Claudia Angiolini, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Banfi, Rossano Bolpagni, Gianmaria Bonari, Christian Bräuchler, Giacomo Calvia, Laura Cancellieri, Silvia Cannucci, Francesca Carruggio, Fabio Conti, Viviana Cavallaro, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Giulio Ferretti, Francesco Festi, Tiberio Fiaschi, Bruno Foggi, Luigi Forte, Sigurd E. Fröhner, Gabriele Galasso, Giovanni Gestri, Günter Gottschlich, Rocco Labadessa, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Giuliano Mereu, Antonio Morabito, Michele Mugnai, Carmelo M. Musarella, Simone Orsenigo, Gaetano Pazienza, Riccardo Pennesi, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Brunello Pierini, Lina Podda, Filippo Prosser, Graziano Rossi, Anna Scoppola, Giovanni Spampinato, Adriano Stinca, Valeria Tomaselli, Giulio Zangari, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Acer, Alchemilla, Andrachne, Bromus, Clinopodium, Colchicum, Damasonium, Erodium, Festuca, Hieracium, Hyparrhenia, Ipomoea, Linaria, Lolium, Narcissus, Ranunculus, Sisymbrium, Stipa, Valerianella, Vicia, and Zannichellia. New combinations in the genus Ziziphora (Z. sardoa and Z. corsica) and the new subspecies Ulmus minor susbp. canescens are proposed. Furthermore, the name Calamintha alpina var. sardoa is here lectotypified. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

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Research Article Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:05:08 +0300
Global and regional IUCN Red List assessments: 7 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/35467/ Italian Botanist 7: 107-124

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.35467

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Michele Adorni, Alessandro Alessandrini, Stefano Armiraglio, Miris Castello, Luigi Forte, Matilde Gennai, Sara Magrini, Pietro Medagli, Chiara Montagnani, Filippo Prosser, Alberto Selvaggi, Mariacristina Villani, Daniele Viciani, Robert P. Wagensommer, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessments of Aurinia leucadea (Guss.) K.Koch, Chondrilla chondrilloides (Ard.) H.Karst., Daphne cneorum L., and Ophioglossum azoricum C.Presl at regional level (Italy).

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Research Article Wed, 29 May 2019 16:15:49 +0300
Anemonoides × lipsiensis comb. nov. (Ranunculaceae), new for the Italian flora https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/35004/ Italian Botanist 7: 101-105

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.35004

Authors: Giovanni Astuti, Giancarlo Marconi, Paolo Pupillo, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: The hybrid Anemonoides nemorosa × A. ranunculoides is recorded for the first time in Italy at the southern periphery of Bologna (N Italy, Emilia-Romagna). Its status is supported by both morphological features and chromosome number (2n = 31). For this taxon, a new nomenclatural combination is proposed.

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Research Article Fri, 17 May 2019 17:11:19 +0300
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 7 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/34285/ Italian Botanist 7: 69-91

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.34285

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Marta Puglisi, Alfredo Vizzini, Cecilia Totti, Michele Aleffi, Giuseppina Barberis, Renato Benesperi, Wolfgang von Brackel, Davide Dagnino, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Gabriele Gheza, Paolo Giordani, Anna Guttová, Petra Mair, Helmut Mayrhofer, Juri Nascimbene, Pier Luigi Nimis, Luca Paoli, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Elena Pittao, Silvia Poponessi, Filippo Prosser, Mauro Ottonello, Domenico Puntillo, Michele Puntillo, Giovanni Sicoli, Francesco Sguazzin, Daniel Spitale, Wilhelm Tratter, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Vallese

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning algae, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the algae genus Chara, the bryophyte genera Cephalozia, Conardia, Conocephalum, Didymodon, Sphagnum, Tetraplodon, and Tortula, the fungal genera Endophyllum, Gymnosporangium, Microbotryum, Phragmidium, and Pluteus, and the lichen genera Candelariella, Cladonia, Flavoplaca, Lichenothelia, Peltigera, Placolecis, Rinodina, Scytinium, and Solenopsora.

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Research Article Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:59:22 +0300
Contribution to the floristic knowledge of Velino and Aterno valleys (Lazio-Abruzzo, central Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/34697/ Italian Botanist 7: 93-100

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.34697

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Laura Cancellieri, Fabio Conti, Enrico Banfi, Daniela Bouvet, Michela Celestini, Giampiero Ciaschetti, Romeo Di Pietro, Francesco Falcinelli, Simonetta Fascetti, Gabriele Galasso, Edda Lattanzi, Rizzieri R. Masin, Riccardo Pennesi, Leonardo Rosati, Adriano Stinca, Agnese Tilia, T’ai G.W. Forte, Anna Scoppola

Abstract: The inventory of the taxa collected during the annual field trip of the working group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society is reported. The field trip was held in 2016 along the Velino and Aterno valleys located between Lazio and Abruzzo administrative regions (central Italy). The flora documented for the studied area amounts to 629 specific and subspecific taxa (including two hybrids) belonging to 300 genera and 69 families. Thirty-eight taxa are endemic to Italy, and only 16 alien taxa were detected. Thirty-eight taxa are included in the IUCN Red List of the Italian Flora. Twenty-four taxa have to be considered as floristic novelties because either new or confirmed for the regional flora of Lazio or Abruzzo. In particular, 15 taxa are new and 6 are confirmed for Lazio. Regarding Abruzzo, 2 taxa are new for the regional flora and one is confirmed. Furthermore, the alien status in Lazio has been updated for one taxon.

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Research Article Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:52:27 +0300
Contribution to the knowledge of the vascular flora of Miniera di Murlo area (southern Tuscany, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/33763/ Italian Botanist 7: 51-67

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.33763

Authors: Silvia Cannucci, Claudia Angiolini, Barbara Anselmi, Enrico Banfi, Marco Biagioli, Paolo Castagnini, Tiberio Fiaschi, Bruno Foggi, Antonio Gabellini, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Edda Lattanzi, Anna Scoppola, Federico Selvi, Daniele Viciani, Gianmaria Bonari

Abstract: This work aims to increase the floristic knowledge of southern Tuscany by means of a floristic investigation which took place in the Miniera di Murlo (southern Tuscany, Italy). The study area, located in the province of Siena, has an extension of 2.26 km2 and hosts a heterogeneity of habitats like rocky outcrops, woodlands, meadows and riparian formations. The prevalent geological type is an acidic sedimentary rock known as diaspri formation (jasper). The checklist of vascular flora consists of 501 taxa and includes six endemics and 13 alien species, among which Vitis labrusca is a newly-found species for the Province of Siena along with the native Rosa balsamica and Rosa squarrosa. The most interesting species, such as Anthoxanthum aristatum, Gagea bohemica, Paragymnopteris marantae, Saxifraga granulata, and Teesdalia coronopifolia, are found on acidic rocks. Species of the Italian Red List, such as Ruscus aculeatus, and species of Regional conservation interest, such as Centaurea aplolepa subsp. carueliana, Ervilia loiseleurii, and Vicia nigricans, were recorded. The chorological spectrum reveals a dominance of Mediterranean species indicating warm climate conditions and mild winters whereas the life-form spectrum shows a slight dominance of hemicryptophytes followed by therophytes. However, a clear dominance of one life-form type over the other is lacking, since the acidic and dry rocky substrate partially compensates for the humidity provided by the stream. This study highlights the relevant floristic value of the Miniera di Murlo area and supports the possible creation of a protected area or its inclusion in the adjacent one.

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Research Article Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:31:13 +0300
Lathyro asphodeloidis-Klaseetum lycopifoliae, a new plant association in the alliance Cynosurion cristati Tüxen, 1947 in Central Apennines https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/33361/ Italian Botanist 7: 35-50

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.33361

Authors: Giampiero Ciaschetti, Gianfranco Pirone

Abstract: This study presents a new plant association discovered in the Central Apennines and named Lathyro asphodeloidis-Klaseetum lycopifoliae. It consists of a semi-natural meadow characterized by the co-dominance of two rare taxa, Klasea lycopifolia and Lathyrus pannonicus subsp. asphodeloides, occurring in Italy in only a few localities in the Central and Northen Apennines. The association was discovered on the Altopiano delle Rocche high plateau in the province of L’Aquila (Abruzzo region, Italy). Multivariate analysis of the relevés shows two floristic and ecological aspects, corresponding to two different subassociations: festucetosum circummediterraneae, with elements from the Festuco-Brometea class, growing in the outer portions of the plateau, and narcissetosum poëtici, corresponding to the most typical aspect and occupying the central part of the plateau, differentiated by meso-hygrophilous species of the Molinietalia and Trifolio-Hordeetalia orders. The plant association has great natural value, due to the presence of several rare plant species, and cultural importance in association with the traditional “Narcissus Fest” held each year in May.

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Research Article Tue, 9 Apr 2019 23:12:27 +0300
New combinations for two hybrids in Salvia subg. Rosmarinus (Lamiaceae) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/34379/ Italian Botanist 7: 31-34

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.34379

Authors: Francesco Roma-Marzio, Gabriele Galasso

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Short Communication Mon, 1 Apr 2019 23:49:01 +0300
Contribution to the knowledge of fungal diversity of the Marmore Waterfalls (Umbria, central Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/33308/ Italian Botanist 7: 17-29

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.33308

Authors: Roberto Venanzoni, Enrico Bini, Emma Bricchi, Paola Angelini

Abstract: A list of the macrofungi collected from the Marmore Waterfalls (Umbria, Italy) is reported. In particular, a list of basidiomycetes and ascomycetes collected over a period of about ten years was compiled. A total of 125 species belonging to 78 genera, 46 families, and 15 orders were identified. Forty-four species are recorded in Umbria for the first time. Marmore Waterfalls may represent an important area for the conservation of fungal diversity, due to the presence of 34 species matching those included in Red Lists of several European countries.

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Research Article Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:54:42 +0200
The occurrence of Brassica montana Pourr. (Brassicaceae) in the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Marche, and in the Republic of San Marino https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/31727/ Italian Botanist 7: 1-16

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.7.31727

Authors: Lorenzo Maggioni, Alessandro Alessandrini

Abstract: Brassica montana Pourr., a wild relative of the Brassica oleracea L. cole crops (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, etc.), deserves special attention for its potential to easily transfer agronomically useful traits to related crops. Monitoring existing B. montana populations is the first step to enabling long-term conservation and management of wild genetic resources. The main distribution area of B. montana extends along the coasts of the northern Mediterranean Sea from north-east Spain to north-west Italy (coast of Liguria and Apuan Alps in Tuscany). Further east and south, the distribution of B. montana is fragmentary, with isolated populations, in some cases, only observed in the 19th or early 20th century and never re-confirmed later. In this paper, we focus on all the B. montana reports for the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Marche, and additionally for the neighbouring Republic of San Marino. Literature records were verified through field visits where possible. According to our analysis, the presence of B. montana is confirmed in the Marche and the Republic of San Marino, but not in Emilia-Romagna. We recommend further studies on the distribution of B. montana in Italy, also applying molecular means, beyond morphology, to distinguish B. montana from naturalized B. oleracea and other related taxa.

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Research Article Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:42:16 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 6 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/30873/ Italian Botanist 6: 97-109

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.30873

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Annalena Cogoni, Alfredo Vizzini, Ilaria Bonini, Franco Cheli, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Gabriele Gheza, Anna Guttová, Petra Mair, Helmut Mayrhofer, Luca Miserere, Giulio Pandeli, Luca Paoli, Filippo Prosser, Domenico Puntillo, Michele Puntillo, Alberto Selvaggi, Daniel Spitale, Wilhelm Tratter

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi, and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Barbula, Fissidens, Gymnostomum, Jungermannia, Riccia, and Scapania, the fungal genera Hyalopsora and Urocystis and the lichen genera Arthothelium, Chaenotheca, Lepraria, Lobaria, Miriquidica, Parmelia, Rinodina, Solenopsora, Thelopsis and Xanthoparmelia.

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Research Article Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:17:01 +0200
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 6 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/30975/ Italian Botanist 6: 91-96

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.30975

Authors: Lorenzo Peruzzi, Giovanni Astuti, Salvatore Cambria, Leonardo Cresti, Jacopo Franzoni, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Mario Spezia

Abstract: In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes three chromosome counts for Bupleurum baldense Turra, Colchicum lusitanum Brot., and Euphorbia gasparrinii Boiss. subsp. gasparrinii.

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Research Article Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:36:42 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 6 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/30560/ Italian Botanist 6: 65-90

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.30560

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Alessandro Alessandrini, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Sandro Ballelli, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Giuseppe Brundu, Sergio Buono, Giuseppe Busnardo, Giacomo Calvia, Paolo Capece, Marco D’Antraccoli, Luca Di Nuzzo, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Giulio Ferretti, Riccardo Guarino, Duilio Iamonico, Mauro Iberite, Marta Latini, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Michele Lonati, Vanessa Lozano, Sara Magrini, Giacomo Mei, Giuliano Mereu, Andrea Moro, Michele Mugnai, Gianluca Nicolella, Pier Luigi Nimis, Nicola Olivieri, Riccardo Pennesi, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Lina Podda, Massimiliano Probo, Filippo Prosser, Simone Ravetto Enri, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Alessandro Ruggero, Filippo Scafidi, Adriano Stinca, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Acalypha, Acer, Canna, Cardamine, Cedrus, Chlorophytum, Citrus, Cyperus, Epilobium, Eucalyptus, Euphorbia, Gamochaeta, Hesperocyparis, Heteranthera, Lemna, Ligustrum, Lycium, Nassella, Nothoscordum, Oenothera, Osteospermum, Paspalum, Pontederia, Romulea, Rudbeckia, Salvia, Sesbania, Setaria, Sicyos, Styphnolobium, Symphyotrichum, and Tradescantia. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:03:08 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 6 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/30575/ Italian Botanist 6: 45-64

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.30575

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Liliana Bernardo, Giovanni Buccomino, Sergio Buono, Franco Caldararo, Giacomo Calvia, Francesca Carruggio, Alessandro Cavagna, Francesco S. D’Amico, Francesco Di Carlo, Francesco Festi, Luigi Forte, Gabriele Galasso, Domenico Gargano, Günter Gottschlich, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Sara Magrini, Giovanni Maiorca, Pietro Medagli, Giacomo Mei, Flavio Mennini, Giuliano Mereu, Danio Miserocchi, Nicola Olivieri, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Gaetano Pazienza, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Filippo Prosser, Massimiliano Rempicci, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Alessandro Ruggero, Alessandra Sani, Domenico Saulle, Chiara Steffanini, Adriano Stinca, Massimo Terzi, Giancarlo Tondi, Maurizio Trenchi, Daniele Viciani, Robert P. Wagensommer, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Alchemilla, Arundo, Bupleurum, Clematis, Clinopodium, Cota, Crassula, Cytisus, Euphorbia, Hieracium, Isoëtes, Lamium, Leontodon, Linaria, Lychnis, Middendorfia, Ophrys, Philadelphus, Pinus, Sagina, Sedum, Taeniatherum, Tofieldia, Triticum, Veronica, and Vicia. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Fri, 9 Nov 2018 17:44:05 +0200
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 6 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/29804/ Italian Botanist 6: 31-44

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.29804

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Mohamed Abdelaal, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Luciano Bongiorni, Annalena Cogoni, Pierluigi Cortis, Antonio Croce, Mauro Fois, Michele Lussu, Enrico V. Perrino, Robert P. Wagensommer, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Epipactis maricae (Croce, Bongiorni, De Vivo & Fori) Presser & S.Hertel at global level, and the regional assessment of Cerinthe retorta Sm. (Italy), Platanthera kuenkelei H.Baumann subsp. kuenkelei (Europe) and Typha elephantina Roxb. (Egypt).

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Research Article Tue, 6 Nov 2018 13:21:07 +0200
Rediscovery of Crocus biflorus var. estriatus (Iridaceae) and its taxonomic characterisation https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/28729/ Italian Botanist 6: 23-30

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.28729

Authors: Francesco Roma-Marzio, Doerte Harpke, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: The Italian endemic Crocus biflorus usually shows white or lilac flowers with three-to-five striking violet longitudinal stripes on the outer tepals, but unstriped plants were recorded in the past. These plants were originally described as C. annulatus subvar. estriatus, and subsequently recombined as a variety of C. biflorus. The rediscovery of such plants in Toscana gave us the opportunity to clarify their systematic relationships, so that we typified the name, and performed karyological and ITS analyses. These plants share the same chromosome number (2n = 2x = 8) and ITS sequence with C. biflorus s. str.

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Research Article Wed, 5 Sep 2018 17:08:04 +0300
An updated inventory of the vascular flora of Elba island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/26568/ Italian Botanist 6: 1-22

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.6.26568

Authors: Angelino Carta, Leonardo Forbicioni, Giuliano Frangini, Brunello Pierini, Lorenzo Peruzzi

Abstract: We present an updated list of the vascular flora occurring on Elba island (Tuscan Archipelago). The list is based on bibliographic analysis and field studies carried out in the years 2006–2018. With a total of 1,098 specific and subspecific taxa currently occurring on the island (including 101 naturalized aliens), plus 67 casual aliens and 16 hybrid taxa, Elba shows the highest number of species among the islands of the Tuscan Archipelago. Two taxa are new for Tuscany: Hieracium symphytaceum s.l. and Ophrys exaltata subsp. morisii; 22 taxa are new for the island, 34 have been confirmed, while 326 were reliably recorded previously by other authors, but not confirmed by our study. We excluded 41 taxa and considered doubtful the occurrence of 87. Life forms and chorotypes are in agreement with the Mediterranean climate of the island. Despite this, Elba also hosts a considerable proportion of Eurosiberian taxa. We detected significant differences in chorotypes and life forms spectra among different geographical portions of the island, paralleling distinct bioclimatic patterns. Despite the institution of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, we are still far from an integrated protection of the island flora. Based on our results, it has been possible to arrange a geodatabase of the flora on the island, useful for its protection.

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Research Article Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:44:10 +0300
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 5 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/26855/ Italian Botanist 5: 101-108

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.26855

Authors: Lorenzo Peruzzi, Giovanni Astuti, Katia Francesca Caparelli, Marco D'Antraccoli, Francesco Roma-Marzio

Abstract: In this contribution new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes 7 chromosome counts for Centaurea (Asteraceae).

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Research Article Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:23:01 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 5 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/26028/ Italian Botanist 5: 83-99

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.26028

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Salvatore Cambria, Alessandro Crisafulli, Michele De Sanctis, Giuliano Fanelli, Matilde Gennai, Vincenzo Gonnelli, Marta Latini, Gianluca Nicolella, Enrico V. Perrino, Alessandro Serafini Sauli, Giuseppe N. Silletti, Daniele Viciani, Robert P. Wagensommer, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status of four vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Arceuthobium oxycedri (DC.) M.Bieb., Ionopsidium albiflorum Durieu, Trifolium latinum Sebast., and Vicia incisa M.Bieb. at a Regional level (Italy).

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Research Article Fri, 25 May 2018 14:16:10 +0300
Contribution to the floristic knowledge of the head of the Po Valley (Piedmont, north Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/24546/ Italian Botanist 5: 57-69

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.24546

Authors: Daniela Bouvet, Annalaura Pistarino, Adriano Soldano, Enrico Banfi, Massimo Barbo, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Maurizio Bovio, Laura Cancellieri, Fabio Conti, Romeo Di Pietro, Francesco Faraoni, Simonetta Fascetti, Gabriele Galasso, Carmen Gangale, Edda Lattanzi, Simonetta Peccenini, Enrico Vito Perrino, Roberto Rizzieri Masin, Vito Antonio Romano, Leonardo Rosati, Giovanni Salerno, Adriano Stinca, Agnese Tilia, Dimitar Uzunov

Abstract: In 2014, the annual field trip of the working group for Floristics, Systematics, and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society was held in Piemonte (northern Italy), at the head of the Po Valley. This valley, at whose extremity is located the Monviso (3,841 m a.s.l.), belongs to the Cottian Alps about which very little is known from a floristic point of view. An inventory of the taxa of vascular plants collected during the field trip is reported here. The research led to the identification of 3,546 exsiccata, kept in nine public and nine private collections. A total of 669 taxa belonging to 79 plant families were recorded. Six taxa resulted endemic to Italy and three exclusive to Piemonte, while only nine alien species were detected; six taxa are new and five confirmed for the regional flora.

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Research Article Tue, 15 May 2018 22:48:30 +0300
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 5 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/25892/ Italian Botanist 5: 71-81

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.25892

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Enrico Banfi, Liliana Bernardo, Gianmaria Bonari, Giovanni Buccomino, Giacomo Calvia, Francesca Carruggio, Viviana Cavallaro, Giuseppina Chianese, Fabio Conti, Laura Facioni, Eva Del Vico, Emilio Di Gristina, Francesco Falcinelli, Luigi Forte, Domenico Gargano, Francesca Mantino, Manuaela Martino, Giacomo Mei, Giuliano Mereu, Nicola Olivieri, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Gaetano Pazienza, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Filippo Scafidi, Anna Scoppola, Adriano Stinca, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records and confirmations to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Allium, Arabis, Campanula, Centaurea, Chaerophyllum, Crocus, Dactylis, Dianthus, Festuca, Galanthus, Helianthemum, Lysimachia, Milium, Pteris, and Quercus. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Tue, 15 May 2018 18:04:37 +0300
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 5 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/25910/ Italian Botanist 5: 45-56

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.25910

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Gianmaria Bonari, Sergio Buono, Laura Cancellieri, Giuseppina Chianese, Giulio Ferretti, Tiberio Fiaschi, Luigi Forte, Riccardo Guarino, Rocco Labadessa, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Sara Magrini, Luigi Minuto, Sara Mossini, Nicola Olivieri, Anna Scoppola, Adriano Stinca, Claudia Turcato, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, and confirmations for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Albizia, Anredera, Bougainvillea, Cardamine, Cenchrus, Cephalaria, Ceratochloa, Cytisus, Datura, Delosperma, Euonymus, Freesia, Hylotelephium, Lantana, Musa, Physalis, Rotala, Styphnolobium, Trachycarpus, and Tradescantia. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as supplementary material.

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Research Article Mon, 14 May 2018 18:34:42 +0300
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 5 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/24852/ Italian Botanist 5: 31-43

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.24852

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Alfredo Vizzini, Annalena Cogoni, Michele Aleffi, Renato Benesperi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Wolfgang von Brackel, Daniela Cataldo, Costantino D'Antonio, Luca Di Nuzzo, Sergio Enrico Favero Longo, Gabriele Gheza, Deborah Isocrono, Enrica Matteucci, Stefano Martellos, Lorenzo Morosini, Pier Luigi Nimis, Silvia Ongaro, Silvia Poponessi, Domenico Puntillo, Francesco Sguazzin, Mauro Tretiach

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi, and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Diplophyllum and Ptychostomum, the fungal genera Arrhenia, Gymnosporangium, and Sporidesmium and the lichen genera Arthonia, Coenogonium, Flavoplaca, Gyalolechia, Parmotrema, Peltigera, Pterygiopsis, Squamarina, Tornabea, and Waynea.

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Research Article Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:42:36 +0200
The traditional food use of wild vegetables in Apulia (Italy) in the light of Italian ethnobotanical literature https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/22297/ Italian Botanist 5: 1-24

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.5.22297

Authors: Nello Biscotti, Daniele Bonsanto, Gennaro Del Viscio

Abstract: In this work, we present a summary of an ethnobotanical research carried out in the whole Administrative Region of Apulia (southern Italy). The main topic of the investigation is the traditional knowledge about wild plants, focusing on their common names, on which parts were used in cooking and how they were used. The main aim was to establish a botanical knowledge about these culinary uses through a systematic identification of the species involved, directly in the field. In addition to this, we focused on the ecological aspects of these species and on their biological and chorological forms. Results suggest the existence of very strong ties between the local communities and this particular flora, without substantial differences between rural and urban areas or among different zones of the Apulia Region. On the other hand, in each area we found peculiar food uses, species, parts used, and recipes. The analysed wild plants still have a fundamental role in the local diet, which can predominantly be ascribed to the Mediterranean model. Moreover, we documented an increasing interest in the culinary uses of these species: in the Gargano area, for instance, more and more cultivations of Salicornia perennans Willd. subsp. perennans are underway thanks to the demand coming from restaurants. In total, we documented 214 taxa (58 families) and at least 19 of them are enduring components of the local diet. Nineteen species represent a high number, considering that the tertiary sector is nowadays predominant in Apulia (73.5 % of the local GDP, compared to 73.2 % in Italy as a whole). Furthermore, the total amount of wild species used as food is the highest in Italy, according to the Italian ethnobotanical literature. On the same basis, we were able to draft a national checklist of 539 taxa documenting the taxonomy of the wild plants involved in traditional food use in Italy, categorized by regions. In conclusion, this work shows that the available literature regarding the Italian territory provides only a partial representation of traditional food uses, even though they are widespread throughout the country. Consequently, this tradition remains to be thoroughly investigated.

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Research Article Fri, 9 Feb 2018 04:15:52 +0200
Notulae to the Italian flora of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens: 4 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/21671/ Italian Botanist 4: 76-86

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.21671

Authors: Sonia Ravera, Alfredo Vizzini, Annalena Cogoni, Michele Aleffi, Silvia Assini, Giovanni Bergamo Decarli, Ilaria Bonini, Wolfgang von Brackel, Francesco Cheli, Valeriy Darmostuk, Zuzana Fačkovcová, Lyubov Gavrylenko, Gabriele Gheza, Anna Guttová, Helmut Mayrhofer, Juri Nascimbene, Luca Paoli, Silvia Poponnessi, Giovanna Potenza, Filippo Prosser, Davide Puddu, Domenico Puntillo, Diego Rigotti, Francesco Sguazzin, Alessia Tatti, Roberto Venanzoni

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Campylopus, Paludella, Tortula, and Conocephalum, the fungal genera Agonimia, Buelliella, Entorrhiza, Filicupula, Poronia, and Sporisorium, the lichen genera Cladonia, Dibaeis, Lasallia, and Rhizocarpon.

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Research Article Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:52:08 +0200
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 4 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/21595/ Italian Botanist 4: 61-71

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.21595

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Giulio Ferretti, Matilde Gennai, Agustín Lahora, Antonio J. Mendoza-Fernández, Juan Mota, Jesús Robles, Lluís Serra, Hedwig Schwarzer, Pedro Sanchez-Gomez, Daniele Viciani, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessments of three vascular plants are presented following to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment at global level of Saxifraga caprariae Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini & Viciani and S. montis-christi Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini & Viciani and the regional assessment of Halocnemum cruciatum (Forssk.) Tod. (Spain).

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Research Article Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:44:42 +0200
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 4 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/21693/ Italian Botanist 4: 43-51

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.21693

Authors: Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianniantonio Domina, Michele Adorni, Lorenzo Cecchi, Giuseppina Chianese, Fabio Conti, Marco D'Antraccoli, Gabriele Galasso, Luigi Ghillani, Marco Giardini, Laura Guglielmone, Villiam Morelli, Nicola Olivieri, Javier López Tirado, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Anna Scoppola, Federico Selvi, Adriano Stinca, Stefano Sturloni, Valeria Tomaselli, Giuseppe Veronico, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, exclusion, extinction and confirmations to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Androsace, Artemisia, Fragaria, Melampyrum, Myosotis, Petrorhagia, Phillyrea, Rosa, Rumex, Spiranthes, Trifolium, and Vicia. Furthermore, a new combination in the genus Omalotheca is proposed.

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Research Article Tue, 7 Nov 2017 15:19:26 +0200
Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 4 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/21782/ Italian Botanist 4: 53-59

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.21782

Authors: Lorenzo Peruzzi, Raquel Chiavegatto, Marco D'Antraccoli, David Dolci, Francesco Roma-Marzio

Abstract: In this contribution new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes 9 chromosome counts for Polygala (Polygalaceae), Dianthus and Silene (Caryophyllaceae).

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Research Article Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:18:37 +0200
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 4 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/21666/ Italian Botanist 4: 33-41

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.21666

Authors: Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Gianmaria Bonari, Sergio Buono, Giuseppina Chianese, Gloria Cortesi, Giuliano Frangini, Duilio Iamonico, Nicola Olivieri, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Brunello Pierini, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Anna Scoppola, Adriano Soldano, Adriano Stinca, Valeria Tomaselli, Giuseppe Veronico, Chiara Nepi

Abstract: In this contribution, new data concerning the Italian distribution of alien vascular flora are presented. It includes new records and exclusions for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Cedrus, Cenchrus, Citrus, Cyrtomium, Diospyros, Elaeagnus, Erigeron, Iris, Oenothera, Pavonia, Phytolacca, Styphnolobium, and Verbena. Furthermore, a new combination in the genus Amaranthus is proposed.

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