Contribution to the floristic knowledge of the head of the Po Valley (Piedmont, north Italy)

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-5-15

Original Publication

Italian botanist

Volume

5

Pages

57--69

Subjects

Cottian Alps , new floristic records , regional flora , vascular flora

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft 2016-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.5.24546

 

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.