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Issue: Vol. 677 No. 3: 18 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.677.3.4
Page range: 233-250
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Taxonomical remarks on Solenopsis corsica (Campanulaceae) species complex, with the description of two new species from Sardinia

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, via A. Longo 19, Catania, Italy.
Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (CCB), Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Viale Sant’Ignazio da Laconi 13, 09123 Cagliari, Italy. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences. Piazza Università, 5 - 39100, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, via A. Longo 19, Catania, Italy.
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, via A. Longo 19, Catania, Italy.
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, via A. Longo 19, Catania, Italy.
Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (CCB), Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Viale Sant’Ignazio da Laconi 13, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Lobelioideae Mediterranean flora endemic species Solenopsis Sardo-Corsican area taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Taxonomical investigations on Solenopsis corsica occurring in Corsica and Sardinia revealed that it represents a species complex, within which some morphologically well distinct taxa can be recognized. The surveyed populations are closely related among them, especially for the habit, with very small leaf hairy rosettes, small-sized flowers with divaricate corolla lips. Apart from S. corsica s.str., widely spread in Corsica, other two new species, morphologically well differentiated can be recognized, they are: S. limbarae and S. corriasii, both occurring in northern Sardinia, where they are localized on the Limbara massif and in other nearby siliceous mountains. The diagnostic features that allow to distinguish these species encompass the size and shape of leaves, bracteoles, flowers, fruits, and seeds. In addition, other differences concern the shape and size of pollen grain and seed testa, as well as their micromorphology. Finally, chorology and ecology of these species are examined, as well as their detailed illustrations and an analytical key of the hitherto known Sardo-Corsican species of this genus are provided.

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