Contribution to the floristic knowledge of Lipari and Panarea Islands (Sicilia, Italy)

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-11-20

Original Publication

Italian botanist

Volume

16

Pages

59--71

Subjects

Aeolian islands , Alien species , Biodiversity , endemics , Floristic novelties , vascular flora

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft 2016-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.16.113415

 

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.