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Issue: Vol. 175 No. 1: 30 July 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-30
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.175.1.4
Page range: 37–44
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 1

Further insights into the taxonomy of the Silene nocturna species complex (Caryophyllaceae): a systematic survey of the taxa from Sardinia and Corsica

1Centro Conservazione Biodiversità (CCB), Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’ Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Viale S. Ignazio da Laconi 11–13, I 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia, Unità di Botanica, Università di Pisa, Via Luca Ghini 13, I 56126, Pisa, Italy
cours Général Leclerc, F 20000, Ajaccio
Conservatoire botanique national de Corse, Office de l’Environnement de la Corse, Avenue Jean Nicoli, F 20250 Corte
Dipartimento di Biologia, Unità di Botanica, Università di Pisa, Via Luca Ghini 13, I 56126, Pisa, Italy
Central Mediterranean chromosome numbers morphology seeds SEM Silene sect. Scorpioideae

Abstract

The taxonomy of Silene nocturna subsp. boullui (putatively endemic to W Corsica) and S. valsecchiae (putatively endemic to E Sardinia) is investigated, by means of morphometric and karyological analyses. Both taxa resulted diploid with 2n = 24 chromosomes. On the basis of morphological results, we confirm the species rank for S. valsecchiae, and consider S. nocturna subsp. boullui as the priority name, at subspecies rank, for S. nocturna subsp. capraria (= S. reflexa).