Contribution to the floristic knowledge of eastern Irpinia and Vulture-Melfese area (Campania and Basilicata, southern Italy)

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-9-20

Original Publication

Italian botanist

Volume

8

Pages

1--16

Subjects

Alien species , Botanists , endemics , Herbaria , Italian vascular flora , new floristic records , Plant Diversity , southern Apennines

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft 2016-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.8.37818

 

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.<br> 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.