Latest Articles from Italian Botanist Latest 4 Articles from Italian Botanist https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:27:09 +0200 Pensoft FeedCreator https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/i/logo.jpg Latest Articles from Italian Botanist https://italianbotanist.pensoft.net/ 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
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
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 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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Research Article Fri, 3 Nov 2017 13:22:58 +0200