Diversification of Portulaca Oleracea L. Complex in the Italian Peninsula and Adjacent Islands†
BOTANY LETTERS, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2016.1200482 Diversification of Portulaca oleracea L. complex in the Italian peninsula and adjacent islands† Avinoam Danina, Fabrizio Buldrinib,g, Marta Bandini Mazzantib, Giovanna Bosib, Maria Carmela Cariac, David Dandriad, Edwin Lanfrancoe, Stephen Mifsudf and Simonetta Bagellac aDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, The Alexander Silberman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; bOrto Botanico – Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; cDipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy; dDepartment of Biology, University of Malta, Msida, Malta; eDepartment of Biology & Institute of Earth Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta; fEcoGozo, Ministry for Gozo, Victoria, Gozo (Malta); gDipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY There is an increasing interest in the taxonomy and distribution of the forms of the Portulaca Received 11 December 2015 oleracea complex. The information accruing from specimens collected in the Italian peninsula and Accepted 2 June 2016 surrounding islands (Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Malta) is here described. Eleven morphotypes KEYWORDS were recorded: ‘P. cypria’, ‘ P. granulatostellulata’, ‘ P. nitida’, ‘ P. oleracea’, ‘ P. papillatostellulata’, Corsica; Maltese Islands; ‘P. rausii’, ‘ P. sardoa’, ‘ P. sativa’, ‘ P. sicula’, ‘ P. trituberculata’, ‘ P. zaffranii’ and a still unclear form purslane; Sardinia; seed Portulaca oleracea f. Three occur in almost all the Italian peninsula and adjacent islands; three tegument; Sicily; Portulaca are scattered in the Italian peninsula and in the adjacent islands; the remnant have a distribution restricted to the islands such as Sicily and Sardinia.
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