Chinese silver grass Miscanthus sinensis (Poaceae): new alien species in the flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

Chinese silver grass Miscanthus sinensis Andersson is native in southeastern Asia. It has been recorded as new to the vascular flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at two localities near the town of Zavidovići. The paper presents a short morphological description, photographs of the new alien species for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the distribution of the taxon.

A proposal for updating the list of invasive alien plant species in Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…Occurrence in Bosnia and Herzegovina: it was discovered in 2005 in the area of Hutovo Blato and was published as a new species for the flora of the country (Maslo 2012). It was found only in the Mediterranean part of the country and has been currently known only from four grid-cell quadrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Fig.…”

“…Furthermore, some invasive alien plant taxa have been recently noted as new for the country (Nobis & al. 2016;Maslo & Šarić 2016Maslo & Šarić , 2019Maslo & Šarić , 2020Maslo & Šarić , 2021. This explains the need for updating the available preliminary list (Maslo 2016b) to summa-rize the current state of the taxonomic knowledge of invasive alien plant species (IAPS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.…”

New records of two grass species of the tribe Andropogoneae (Poaceae) in Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…In the flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), only ten species of the tribe Andropogonae are known: Andropogon distachyos L., Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng, Chrysopogon gryllus (L.) Trin., Heteropogon contortus (L.) Roem. & Schult., Hyparrhenia hirta (L.) Stapf, Miscanthus sinensis Andersson, Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers., Tripidium strictum (Host) H. Scholz, and Zea mays L. (Beck-Mannagetta 1903, Kutleša & Lakušić 1964, Maslo 2016, Maslo & al. 2019, Sarajlić, 218/219, Milanović, 2019.…”