Latest Articles from Italian Botanist Latest 58 Articles from Italian Botanist https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:51:55 +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
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 16 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/115947/ Italian Botanist 16: 121-133

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.16.115947

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Salvatore Cambria, Antonio Giacò, Bekhruz S. Khabibullaev, Khabibullo F. Shomurodov, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Manuela Porrovecchio, 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 Aubrieta columnae subsp. sicula, Calligonum zakirovii and Santolina decumbens subsp. tisoniana at global level.

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Research Article Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:53:29 +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 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
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
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 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
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 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
Global and regional IUCN red list assessments: 12 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/76596/ Italian Botanist 12: 77-84

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.12.76596

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Thomas Abeli, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Donatella Cogoni, Martina D’Agostino, Maria Silvia Pinna, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of two vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Genista nuragica Bacch., Brullo & Giusso and Jacobaea incana (L.) Veldkamp at global level.

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Research Article Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:58:24 +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
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
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
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
Anatomical characteristics of fossil wood collected from the Manchar Formation (Miocene), Thano Bula Khan, Sindh, Pakistan https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/60344/ Italian Botanist 11: 1-8

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.11.60344

Authors: Noorulain Soomro, Jamal Uddin Mangi, Mahjabeen Panhwer, Ghulam Hussain Jatoi, Sajjad Ali Khuhro, Qamaruddin Khokhar, Shabab Ali Khan, Ali Nawaz Mengal, Nasirudin Shaikh

Abstract: The characterization of petrified wood provides valuable information about paleoclimatology and geological history and helps to reconstruct the past forest flora of different parts of the earth. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the anatomical characteristics of fossil wood of the Miocene age collected from the Manchar Formation exposed at Thano Bula Khan, Sindh, Pakistan. In order to carry out a detailed anatomical investigation, three-dimensional sections were prepared using a petrotome. The microscopic analysis allowed us to study vessel size and arrangement, wood parenchyma, fibers, and xylem rays. Based on the comparison between recent and fossil wood, we concluded that the investigated characters are comparable with those of the genus Atalantia Corrêa of the Rutaceae family. Therefore, it was named as Atalantioxylon thanobolensis sp. nov. with reference to the location of Thano Bula Khan from which the fossil wood was collected.

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Research Article Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:17:58 +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
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 10 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/60022/ Italian Botanist 10: 73-81

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.10.60022

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Hayder M. Al-Rammahi, Mohammad K. Mohammad, Enrico V. Perrino, Leonardo Rosati, Robert P. Wagensommer, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of two vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria is presented. It includes the regional assessment of Jasione orbiculata Griseb. ex Velen. for Italy and of Vachellia gerrardii (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter subsp. negevensis (Zohary) Ragup., Seigler, Ebinger & Maslin for Iraq.

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Research Article Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:42:35 +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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
An atlas of orchids distribution in the Campania region (Italy), a citizen science project for the most charming plant family https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/14916/ Italian Botanist 4: 15-32

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.14916

Authors: Antonio Croce, Roberto Nazzaro

Abstract: A database of the orchids of Campania has been built up since 2000 with data collected for academic purposes, research projects and, more recently, with the contributions of enthusiastic amateurs and scholars, thus becoming a real citizen science project leading to the realization of an online Atlas (http://www.floracampana.unina.it/Orchidee/index.html). In this paper, the collection and storage of the data and the synthesis of them are presented. On 31 December 2016, the database accounted for 14680 records from more than 30 contributors relating to 126 taxonomic entities (species, subspecies, hybrids and a few “sensu lato”). The bibliographic records number 3663 (24.9%) and cover a time range of four centuries (from 1616 to 2016). Amongst the 11017 field records (observations), more than 99% are geo-referred and are “punctual” type (precision less than 100 m). The spatial and temporal distribution of the data has been analysed and biases have been underlined. The observations show a clear difference in the study effort year by year but always with a significant contribution of the citizen scientists. The analysis of the spatial distribution shows that the observations are preferably collected in protected areas, around main roads and on the roadsides. Many cells of the grid still lack information and these should be the object of future research.

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Research Article Wed, 4 Oct 2017 18:38:42 +0300
Population structure of Erythronium dens-canis L. (Liliaceae) in the northern Apennines (Italy) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/12439/ Italian Botanist 4: 1-14

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.12439

Authors: Paolo Pupillo, Giovanni Astuti

Abstract: Relationships between age, time of emergence, and leaf traits of individuals were investigated in a population of Erythronium dens-canis L. in a hilly woodland area named Farneto-C, near Bologna, Italy. In 2015, 591 individuals were counted, 19 of which were flowering (FLO), 442 were mature non-flowering (MNF) and 130 were juveniles (JUV). FLO emerged at the end of February, whereas most MNF and JUV appeared at the middle and end of March, respectively. The mean aboveground survivorship of MNF was 24 days. Most MNF had large, oval to shield-shaped leaves with red-brown mottling, whereas most JUV leaves were smaller, usually oblong or lanceolate with a rough maculation or none. These results suggest that both timing of emergence and leaf shape are related to the age of the bulb. Based on leaf background, plants were classified into three major types with a likely genetic basis in the 2015 and 2016 surveys (the latter limited to FLO): a dominant silvery type (SLV, 62–74%), silvery-and-green type (S&G, 23–32%), and a less frequent vivid-green type (GRN, 3–5%). Several subtypes were also identified, but only one was dominant within each type. The three basic patterns appear to be phenotypically stable and no differences between MNF and FLO were found; once the juvenile stage has passed, each plant produces the same leaf type year after year. In addition, our results on the discoloration time-course of red-brown spots suggest that the functional role of leaf mottling is not related to pollinator attraction. Instead, leaf mottling could play a role in camouflage against herbivores.The observed massive grazing on flowers, more than leaves, could explain why the frequency of mature individuals was biased towards the non-flowering ones.

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Research Article Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:10:02 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 3 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/13303/ Italian Botanist 3: 83-98

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.3.13303

Authors: Simone Orsenigo, Giovanni Astuti, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Sandra Citterio, Fabio Conti, Juan Antonio Garrido Becerra, Rodolfo Gentili, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Juan F. Jiménez-Martínez, Gerhard Karrer, Agustín Lahora, Fabián Martínez-Hernández, Antonio Juan Mendoza-Fernández, Maria E. Merlo, Chiara Montagnani, Juan Mota, Gianluca Nicolella, Francisco Javier Pérez García, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Jesus Robles Sanchez, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Esteban Salmerón-Sánchez, Pedro Sánchez-Gómez, Lluís Serra, Adriano Stinca, Giuseppe Fenu

Abstract: In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants are presented according to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment at global level of Crepis lacera Ten subsp. titani (Pamp.) Roma-Marzio, G.Astuti & Peruzzi and Anthyllis hermanniae L. subsp. sicula Brullo & Giusso and the regional assessment of Commicarpus plumbagineus (Cav.) Standl. (Spain and Europe) and Ambrosia maritima L. (Italy).

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Research Article Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:05:32 +0300
Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 2 https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/10975/ Italian Botanist 2: 93-115

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.2.10975

Authors: Giuseppe Fenu, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Liliana Bernardo, Giacomo Calvia, Sandra Citterio, Bruno Foggi, Mauro Fois, Carmen Gangale, Gabriele Galasso, Domenico Gargano, Matilde Gennai, Rodolfo Gentili, Gianluca Larroux, Enrico Perrino, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Dimitar Uzunov, Ilda Vagge, Daniele Viciani, Robert Philipp Wagensommer, Simone Orsenigo

Abstract: In this contribution the conservation status assessment of six plant species according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment at global level of Charybdis glaucophylla Bacch., Brullo, D’Emerico, Pontec. & Salmeri, Euphorbia nicaeensis All. subsp. japygica (Ten.) Arcang., Hieracium australe Fr. subsp. australe, Limonium multiforme Pignatti, Onosma helvetica Boiss. em. Teppner subsp. lucana (Lacaita) Peruzzi, Aquaro & Cesca and the assessment at national level (Italy) of Lathyrus laxiflorus (Desf.) Kuntze subsp. laxiflorus.

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Research Article Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:13:28 +0200
Distribution and taxonomy of the Italian clovers belonging to Trifolium sect. Vesicastrum subsect. Mystillus (Fabaceae) https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/10361/ Italian Botanist 2: 7-27

DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.2.10361

Authors: Anna Scoppola, Edda Lattanzi, Liliana Bernardo

Abstract: In this paper, we focused our attention on the taxonomy and distribution in Italy of taxa belonging to Trifolium sect. Vesicastrum subsect. Mystillus. A short description of these closely related clovers, based on the study of fresh plant material, revision of herbarium specimens, and analysis of the relevant literature, is provided. Diagnostic features were highlighted by means of high-resolution digital images and, accordingly, an identification key is given. Trifolium spumosum, T. vesiculosum, T. mutabile and T. setiferum are reported to be distributed throughout Italy. We have updated the Italian distribution of the first three species by providing new occurrences from Tuscany, Umbria, Campania, Basilicata, and Calabria and by correcting previous references. The current presence of T. multistriatum in southern Italy is confirmed by our study, while T. setiferum must be excluded from the flora of Sicily. The study resulted in five new regional occurrences and 16 changes of presence status. Finally, intermediate forms between T. vesiculosum, T. multistriatum and T. mutabile were found both in living material and in the revised herbarium specimens.

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Research Article Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:51:33 +0300