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Issue: Vol. 496 No. 3: 14 April 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.496.3.8
Page range: 294–296
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 11

Typification of the name Asperula rupestris (Rubiaceae)

Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, bld. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, bld. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, bld. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Rubiaceae Eudicots

Abstract

Asperula rupestris Tineo (1827: 276) is a species endemic to Sicily, southern Italy. It is a chasmophyte growing on north-exposed calcareous rocks and cliffs of the main promontories of NW Sicily and the islands of Favignana and Marettimo, Egadi Islands, NW of Siciliy (see e.g., Giardina et al. 2007).