ABSTRACTStéphen Sommier and Émile Levier were eminent botanists and plant collectors (but also ethno-anthropologists, geographers and photographers), best known for their scientific travels in Italy ...and abroad. This study accurately reconstructs the travel and collection itineraries of a trip through the Caucasus in 1890. The botanical importance of this journey is significant, with over 10,000 specimens collected, more than 1600 taxa identified, and over 250 newly described taxa based on the collected samples. The locations visited are placed in a time sequence on up-to-date georeferenced topographic maps. Furthermore, using dedicated heatmaps, we show the sites where the two explorers collected specimens that were later identified as taxa new to science. These maps will also be useful to botanists, historians, scholars and curators of natural history museums, who work with Caucasian flora and vegetation, ethno-anthropology, history of photography, and landscape.
Calamus nambariensis Becc. (Arecaceae) has been recollected after a century from its original locality. As there is no holotype for the species name, a lectotype is designated from FI‐BP. Further, an ...epitype is designated to overcome the ambiguity of the incomplete material available at FI‐BP and a detailed description of the female flower from live material is provided.
Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920) is considered to be one of the more important Italian naturalists of the nineteenth century, in particular for his pioneering explorations of the Malaysian Archipelago. ...During this period, he collected many thousands of botanical, zoological and ethno-anthropological specimens which are now conserved in natural history museums. Based on this conserved material, hundreds of species new to science have been described. In this study, we accurately reconstruct the travel itineraries of Beccari's first trip to Borneo (Sarawak, 1865-1868). We link modern locations to the names he used, which were Italian transliteration of the local names of the time. We place these locations in time sequence on up-to-date georeferenced topographic maps. We expect our study to be useful to botanists, zoologists, anthropologists, curators of natural history museums and to nature conservators, as it provides precious information on the fauna and flora of Sarawak in the 1860s.
In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, and confirmations for Italy or for Italian administrative regions ...of taxa in the genera
Albizia
,
Anredera
,
Bougainvillea
,
Cardamine
,
Cenchrus
,
Cephalaria
,
Ceratochloa
,
Cytisus
,
Datura
,
Delosperma
,
Euonymus
,
Freesia
,
Hylotelephium
,
Lantana
,
Musa
,
Physalis
,
Rotala
,
Styphnolobium
,
Trachycarpus
, and
Tradescantia
. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as supplementary material.
In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records and confirmations to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in ...the genera
Allium
,
Arabis
,
Campanula
,
Centaurea
,
Chaerophyllum
,
Crocus
,
Dactylis
,
Dianthus
,
Festuca
,
Galanthus
,
Helianthemum
,
Lysimachia
,
Milium
,
Pteris
, and
Quercus
. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as supplementary material.
In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian ...administrative regions for taxa in the genera
Artemisia
,
Chaetonychia
,
Cirsium
,
Cynanchum
,
Genista
,
Hieracium
,
Iberis
,
Melica
,
Misopates
,
Myosotis
,
Thalictrum
,
Trifolium
,
Utricularia
,
Veronica
, and
Vicia
. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as supplementary material.
A name given by Molina in 1782 and again in 1810 to a new Phaseolus species after a food legume crop grown for millennia mostly in the western part of the Quechua realm in South America refers to ...that crop (in the text of his essay) as well as to a weed (in his short Latin description), thus raising taxonomical uncertainty. Obviously, a taxonomical epithet cannot refer to two different botanical entities within the same genus. An example of that uncertainty was the naming of a specimen likely of Macroptilium lathyroides collected in northern Colombia and kept in the negative series of Berlin-Dahlem at the Field Museum. That crop spread so widely and fast that it received several names that Molina and a fortiori Philippi should have considered.
In this contribution, new data concerning the Italian distribution of alien vascular flora are presented. It includes new records and exclusions for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of ...taxa in the genera
Cedrus
,
Cenchrus
,
Citrus
,
Cyrtomium
,
Diospyros
,
Elaeagnus
,
Erigeron
,
Iris
,
Oenothera
,
Pavonia
,
Phytolacca
,
Styphnolobium
, and
Verbena
. Furthermore, a new combination in the genus
Amaranthus
is proposed.
In this contribution, new data concerning the Italian distribution of alien vascular flora are presented. It includes new records, exclusions and confirmations for Italy or for Italian administrative ...regions for taxa in the genera Ageratum , Aster , Buddleja , Cedrus , Centranthus , Cephalotaxus , Clerodendrum , Cotoneaster , Cyperus , Honorius , Lantana , Ligustrum , Morus , Muscari , Oenothera , Opuntia , Platycladus , Plumbago , Pseudotsuga , Sedum , Sporobolus , Stachys , Ulmus and Yucca . A nomen novum, Stachys talbotii , is proposed as a replacement name for Sideritis purpurea .
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