New alien vascular species for the flora of southern Italy

An updated checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy

“…• culton (Hetterscheid and Brandenburg 1995) (syno-nyms: planta culta, cultivated plant): plant distinct from its wild relative(s) and capable to conserve its taxonomic (Celesti-Grapow et al 2009a, 2009b, listing 1023 species and subspecies, of which 103 archaeophytes and 920 neophytes. In the following years, a relevant amount of data concerning the vascular flora alien to Italy appeared in the columns Notulae alla checklist della flora vascolare italiana (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009), Notulae alla flora esotica d'Italia (2009d'Italia ( -2015, and Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora (2016 onwards, Galasso et al 2016aGalasso et al , 2016bGalasso et al , 2017aGalasso et al , 2017b, published in the journals Informatore Botanico Italiano and Italian Botanist, as well as in regional inventories (e.g., Banfi and Galasso 2010;Arrigoni and Viegi 2011;Podda et al 2012;Bouvet 2013;Celesti et al 2016;Puddu et al 2016;Roma-Marzio et al 2016; Del Guacchio and La Valva 2017; Lucchese 2017), taxonomic contributions (e.g., Ardenghi et al 2015a;Iamonico 2015), and single records of national or continental relevance (e.g., Ardenghi 2013;Galasso et al 2014;Stinca et al 2014;Iberite and Iamonico 2015;Sani et al 2015;Scafidi et al 2016;Stinca et al 2016;Alessandrini et al 2017;Ardenghi et al 2017;Salerno and Stinca 2017;Stinca et al 2017). In order to summarize all the available floristic data and taxonomic knowledge of the Italian alien vascular flora, an updated checklist was needed.…”

Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 5

“…In Italy, Boungavillea spectabilis is also reported as a casual alien in Sardegna (Bacchetta et al 2009, Galasso et al 2018 (Galasso et al 2018). According to Stinca et al (2017), this species has been largely spread by nurseries and soil transportation.…”

New Chorological Data for the Italian Vascular Flora

“…Over the past 20 years, floristic studies of the central-southern Italian Peninsula have greatly improved our knowledge of the flora of this region [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and some syntheses at the national scale [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] have been made available.…”