NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS

by WERNER GREUTER*

OPTIMA presentations, extended versions of which are due to be published in forthcoming Benito VALDÉS – Results of the fifth volumes of the journal Flora mediterra- “Iter Mediterraneum” in Morocco, 8- nea. Available online at: 27 June, 1992. [Bocconea (ISSN 1120- http://www.optima-bot.org/meetings/ 4060, print; 2280-3882, online), 26.] – XIVAbstracts.pdf Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormita- num, Palermo, 2013 (ISBN 978-88- 7915-026-2). 179 pages, 6 photographs, Cryptogams 8 figures, 2 maps, 2 tables; paper. [Re- Flora liquenológica ibérica, 1-10 [re- ceived fall 2013]. ceived fall 2013]:

The long awaited account of OPTIMA’s Ana Rosa BURGAZ & Isabel MARTÍNEZ 1992 Iter Mediterraneum, with a full list – Peltigerales: Lobariaceae, Nephro- of the 2366 vascular plant gatherings mataceae, Peltigeraceae. [Flora lique- made, plus partial lists for lichens (by nológica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), [1].] Stephen Jury) and bryophytes (by P. – Sociedad Española de Liquenología, Campisi & al.) as well as chromosome Murcia, 2003. 61 pages, 10 plates of counts for 111 of the collected taxa (by drawings, map; paper. Zoila Díaz & Raquel Parra). New com- binations are proposed in Astragalus, Regina CARBALLAL & María Eugenia Malva, Nepeta, and Ornithogalum. LÓPEZ DE SILANES – Ostropales: Gra- phidaceae, Solorinellaceae. [Flora lique- Gianniantonio DOMINA, Werner GREU- nológica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), [2].] TER & Francesco Maria RAIMONDO – Sociedad Española de Liquenología, (ed.) – XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Sep- Murcia, 2004. 48 pages, 9 plates of tember, 9-15, Palermo. Abstracts. – drawings, map; paper. OPTIMA, Palermo, 2013 (ISBN 978-88- 903108-8-1). 165 pages [+ page 21 (can- Esteve LLOP – Lecanorales: Bacidia- cellans), 166-172], 1 table; paper [+ 4 ceae I, Bacidia y Bacidina. [Flora lique- loose sheets]. [Received fall 2013]. nológica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), [3].] – Sociedad Española de Liquenología, Includes the final version of the scientific Barcelona, 2007. 49 pages, 5 figures programme of the Meeting as well as the (drawings + 18 colour photographs), map; abstracts of 82 lectures and 67 poster paper.

* All unsigned texts are by Werner Greuter. Please send all items for announcement or review directly to the column editor: Prof. W. Greuter, Herbarium Mediterraneum, Giardino Botanico, Via Lin- coln 2/A, I-90123 Palermo.

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Ana Rosa BURGAZ & Teuvo AHTI – Palmira CARVALHO – Collema. [Flora Cladoniaceae. [Flora liquenológica liquenológica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), 4.] – Sociedad 10.] – Sociedad Española de Liqueno- Española de Liquenología, Madrid, 2009. logía, Pontevedra, 2012. 52 pages, 8 111 pages, 21 plates of drawings, 83 plates of figures (drawings and photo- maps; paper. graphs), map; paper.

Mireia GIRALT – Physciaceae I, Endo- Started in the early years of this millen- hyalina, Rinodina y Rinodinella. [Flora nium, the national compendium of li- liquenológica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), chens in the Iberian Peninsula has been 5.] – Sociedad Española de Liquenología, making good and steady progress so far. Barcelona, 2010. 105 pages, 22 figures It is being produced by slim volumes, (drawings + 21 grayscale or colour perhaps rather fascicles, if and when a photographs), table, map; paper. treatment is ready. The first volume was published in 2003. To quote from its Regina CARBALLAL & varying authors presentation (in OPTIMA Newslett. 38: – Pannariaceae. [Flora liquenológica (5-6). 2008): “The new Flora is being ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), 6.] – Sociedad based on Llimona & Hladun’s 2001 in- Española de Liquenología, Pontevedra, ventory of Iberian lichen-forming and 2010. 44 pages, 9 plates of drawings, lichenicolous fungi (see OPTIMA News- map; paper. lett. 36: (3). 2002). Its treatments are of Diana MUÑIZ & Néstor L. HLADUN – an exemplary, submonographic style, Calicioides. [Flora liquenológica ibéri- with full keys, high-standard nomencla- ca (ISSN 1696-0513), 7.] – Sociedad tural treatment (except that no types are Española de Liquenología, Barcelona, cited for synonyms), detailed taxon de- 2011. 95 pages, 96 photographs (mostly scriptions and copious illustration, by in colour), map; paper. original drawings, of a majority if not all of the species. Distribution (both overall Ana Rosa BURGAZ – Peltigerales: Mas- salongiaceae y Placynthiaceae. [Flora and by Iberian provinces) is summarised liquenológica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), but not mapped. Ample space is given to 8.] – Sociedad Española de Liquenología, observations of all kind. The language Madrid, 2011. 42 pages, 20 colour adopted is Spanish.” – To which one photographs, 17 maps; paper. might add that many subsequent vol- umes ([3], 5, 7-10) use micrographs and Víctor J. RICO & José María BARRASA colour photographs for illustration pur- – Basidiomycota liquenizados y lique- poses, and two (4 and 8) include distri- nícolas. Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae, bution maps for species. Arrhenia y Lichenomphalia; Cantha- rellales: Clavulinaceae, Multiclavula; Mathias VUST, Philippe CLERC, Chris- Hydnaceae, Burgoa. [Flora liquenoló- tine HABASHI & Jean-Claude MER- gica ibérica (ISSN 1696-0513), 9.] – MILLIOD – Liste rouge des lichens du Sociedad Española de Liquenología, canton de Genève. [Publication hors- Madrid, 2011. 48 pages, 15 photographs série n° 16.] – Conservatoire et Jardin (mostly in colour), map; paper. botaniques de la Ville de Genève, [Chambésy], 2015 (ISBN 978-2-8277-

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0132-2). 160 pages, numerous colour Luis Alberto PARRA SANCHEZ – Agari- photographs, graphs, maps, tables; lami- cus L., Allopsalliota Nauta & Bas, part nated cover. [received March 2015.] II. [Fungi Europaei, 1A.] – Candusso, The title is a blatant understatement, for Alassio, 2013 (978-88-905310-2-6). at least three reasons. First, the book 1168 pages, 616 photographs or micro- includes a complete inventory of the graphs in colour, 119 figures in black- Canton of Geneva’s lichens: 612 species, and-white, 67 coloured plates (mostly not counting 66 that were omitted for facsimiles) tables; hard cover. [89 €; either having been reported by error (of received December 2013.] location or identification), or being im- The second part of Parra’s monumental possible to interpret, or not being li- monograph of European Agariceae en- chens. Second, it is an all but complete compasses the treatment of the remain- compendium of regional lichenology, ing 6 sections and 55 species of Agari- with a concise introduction to the disci- cus (12 newly described here) plus the pline, an historical account, and a de- unispecific genus Allopsalliota. Same as scription of the principal lichen habitats the first part (see OPTIMA Newslett. 38: – of which the one that figures most (5-6). 2009), the text is fully bilingual prominently, and has received particular (Spanish and English) except for the attention, are tombstones in cemeteries. trilingual keys where Italian is added, Third, it is generously and beautifully extremely detailed in its descriptive and illustrated (sadly, I have been unable to corollary matter, superbly and gener- find any reference to or acknowledge- ously illustrated. The average treatment ment of the authors or source of the il- for a species extends over 11 pages of lustrations; the fact that one of the au- text and 9 of colour illustrations. At the thors has been portrayed handling a end, preceding the indexes, there is an camera being the only, cryptic hint). The exhaustive, annotated list of names that progress of knowledge embodied in the were not validly published or had been text is amazing: a Swiss inventory of misapplied, so that on the whole the 2004 had listed 283 lichen species for monograph also serves as a critical no- Geneva, to which 329 are added here. menclator for the genus. Not all have been found again during the 10 years of field inventorying by the Gymnosperms author team: 143, almost one quarter, are Robert P. ADAMS – Junipers of the reported as missing and classified either world: The genus Juniperus. 4th edi- as data deficient or regionally extinct. tion. – Trafford, Bloomington, 2014 Another quarter is placed in one of the (ISBN 978-1-4907-2325-9). v + 415 pages, threat categories: critically endangered, numerous black-and-white illustrations endangered or vulnerable. All in all, the (photographs, maps, graphs), tables; lami- book can be qualified as pioneering a nated cover [hard back edition announ- new generation of modern, comprehen- ced]. [29.95 US$; received May 2014.] sive, informative and educational re- gional Red Data Books. Remarkable: a monograph published in four editions within a 10-years’ span;

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (3) Publications each edition including substantial Trigonella, and the species, including changes, improvements in taxonomic aliens, almost 150. The treatment is ex- concepts, mostly based on the author’s haustive, including detailed descriptions, ongoing research on the World’s juni- full synonymies, identification keys (ex- pers. As compared to ed. 3 (see OP- cept for Trifolium, separate keys are TIMA Newslett. 40: (3). 2011), there has provided for material with fruits only), been one major change affecting Medi- completely new distribution maps for the terranean Juniperus species. What used French territory, by départements, and to be an ill-defined variety based exclu- generous photographic illustrations, with sively on fruit morphology, J. phoenicea close-up pictures of vegetative, floral var. turbinata, found in disseminated and fruit details useful for identification. localities within the circummediterra- For the generic and infrageneric classifi- nean area of J. phoenicea var. phoeni- cation adopted, full use is made of recent cea, turns out to be a species of its own, results of molecular studies which, com- J. turbinata, an almost complete vicariant bined with morphological criteria, re- to J. phoenicea and much more wide- sults in novel, original concepts. In par- spread than the latter. Uncharacteristi- ticular, the sections of Medicago are cally for a species so named, and on the redefined and a new, unispecific one is assumption that the identity of the Lin- described (but not validly named) for M. nean type has been correctly assessed, J. arabica; and Melilotus is sunk in phoenicea proper now appears to be con- Trigonella where it forms two subgen- fined to E Spain and S. France, just ex- era, resulting in 16 new combinations tending to NW Italy in the Maritime Alps. and 2 (illegitimate) replacement names at subgeneric, sectional and species rank. Phanerogams Whether or not one subscribes to these novel concepts, they make of this work a Pierre COULOT & Philippe RABAUTE – milestone in legume taxonomy that can- Monographie des Leguminosae de not be ignored. France. Tome 3 – Tribu des Trifolieae. [Bulletin de la Société Botanique du Wilhelm BARTHLOTT, Bernadette GRO- Centre-Ouest, Numéro spécial [ISSN SSE-VELDMANN & Nadja KOROTKOVA 0759934x), 40.] – Société Botanique du – Orchid seed diversity. A scanning Centre-Ouest, Jarnac, 2013. 760 pages, electron microscopy survey [Englera, 32 1062 colour photographs, maps, tables; (ISSN 0170-4818)]. – Botanische Garten hard cover. [98 €; received December & Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, 2013.] Berlin, 2014 (978-3-921800-92-8). 245 pages, 620 scanning micrographs, pho- Tome 3 is the first published of a new, tographs (some in colour), drawings, monumental monographic treatment of graphs; laminated cover. [Received De- the legume species of France, the publi- cember 2014.] cation plan of which is not stated, nor the planned number of volumes (accord- There exist scattered published data on ing to external information, there will be and illustration of orchid seed morphol- 4 volumes in total). The included genera ogy, but this is the first coherent over- are 4: Ononis, Trifolium, Medicago, and view for the entire family, with descrip-

(4) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 2015 Publications tions for 352 (40 % of the ca. 880 cur- variety) and habitat preferences are also rently recognised) genera and scanning provided, but no formal species descrip- electron micrographs for ca. 330 of them tions. (mostly two for each, at different, unfor- tunately unspecified scales). A coherent Floras descriptive terminology is proposed, and Santiago CASTROVIEJO † (gen. ed.), En- 17 seed types are defined. The previ- rique RICO, Manuel Benito CRESPO, ously suspected taxonomic relevance of Alejandro QUINTANAR, Alberto HE- seed features is confirmed, especially at RRERO & Carlos AEDO (vol. ed.) – the tribal and subtribal level, less so at Flora iberica. Plantas vasculares de la the ranks of subfamily and genus. This is Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Vol. borne out by plotting 15 particular char- XX, Liliaceae-Agavaceae. – Real Jardín acters as well as the seed types on a phy- Botánico, Madrid, ‘2013’ [2014] (ISBN logenetic tree of the family or, in some 978-84-009745-5, volume; 978-84-00- cases, of the subfamily Epidendroideae 06221-7, set). L + 651 pages, map, 104 alone. plates of drawings; cloth with dust Giorgio PERAZZA & Richard LORENZ – jacket. [43 €; received February 2014.] Le orchidee dell’Italia nord-orientale. Includes the treatment of the “liliiflor- Atlante corologico e guida al riconosci- ous” monocots, i.e. the three Englerian mento. – Osiride, Rovereto, 2013 (978- families Liliaceae s.l. (except Smilax, 88-7498-192-2). 448 pages, numerous already published as Smilacaceae in Vol. colour photographs, drawings and distri- 21), Amaryllidaceae (not including Al- bution maps; paper. [Received Decem- lium), Iridaceae, and the exotic Agava- ber 2013.] ceae. In view of the still considerable The book brings, on one hand, the result instability of the more modern, phyloge- (in the form of grid maps) of a new, netic classification of these plants, there is thorough inventory in the field, by hun- a lot to be said in favour of the adopted dreds of enthusiast members of provin- traditional, pragmatic if admittedly unnat- cial and regional groups of orchid lovers; ural family delimitation. The sequence of and on the other hand it is a guide for the genera, when possible, conforms to the easy identification of orchids by means tenets of APG III. The species described of keys and excellent colour photographs in this volume number 224, assigned to of details, habit and habitats. Original 62 genera, of which the largest are Al- drawings by Barbara Rauss and Lucio lium (35 species), Narcissus (25), Gagea Sottovia, mostly of single flowers, are and Asphodelus (12 each). Generic de- included. The area covered is essentially limitations vary from extremely narrow delimited by the rivers Ticino and Po to (6 genera for Iris) to traditionally wide the west and south, the national border (Scilla, Urginea). Individual treatments and the Adriatic Sea to the north and of families and genera are available east. In all, 29 genera and 76 orchid spe- online as searchable pdf files, at cies are or were present (one being ex- http://www.floraiberica.es/floraiberica/ tinct). Notes of their variability (two new texto/pdfs/000%20clavegeneral.pdf. status transfers, one newly described The next volume expected to be pub-

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (5) Publications lished is Vol. 9, Rhamnaceae to Poly- colour photographs on 126 plates, 2 galaceae, leaving Vol. 16 and 19, Com- maps in colour + caption on extra pages positae and Gramineae, for the end. and cover inside; hard cover [96 €; re- ceived August 2014]. Santiago CASTROVIEJO † (gen. ed.), Juan Antonio DEVESA, Alejandro QUINTA- This new Flora encompasses the vascu- NAR, Miguel Ángel GARCÍA (vol. ed.) – lar plants of Mediterranean France, from Flora iberica. Plantas vasculares de la the eastern Pyrenées to the southern Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Vol. Alps, to the exclusion of Corsica. The XVI(I), Compositae (partim). – Real question of how best to delimit its terri- Jardín Botánico, Madrid, 2014 (ISBN tory had been thoroughly debated, with 978-84-009883-4, volume; 978-84-00- the result that, essentially, political 06221-7, set). XLVIII + 734 pages, map, boundaries were to be adopted. The 146 plates of drawings; cloth with dust declared coverage concerns two of the jacket. [43 €; received January 2015.] Régions of France: Languedoc-Roussil- lon in its totality (Dépts. Aude, Gard, The first of three planned Compositae Hérault, Lozère, Pyrénées-Orientales) volumes treats the subfamily Car- and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, with 4 duoideae, which has the Mediterranean of its 6 Départements (Alpes-Maritimes, area as one of its centres of diversity. Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Vaucluse). How- Following recent classification schemes, ever, some bordering portions of 5 a single tribe is recognised, misnamed neighbour Départements (Alpes-de-Haute “Cynarocephalae”, and the traditionally Provence, Ardèche, Aveyron, Drôme, recognised tribes are reduced to subtribal Hautes-Alpes) are in effect also in- level. Generic limits by and large follow cluded, as 6 of the 20 natural regions the treatment in Med-Checklist, except here defined transgress the declared for Carduncellus being kept separate from boundaries to the north. Carthamus and Cyanus merged under Centaurea. Of the 29 genera (209 spe- This is a critical Flora, as it includes cies) included, Centaurea with its 93 numerous and sometimes quite extensive Iberian species is by far the largest. En- notes. It is also an illustrated Flora, as a demism is high, aliens are all but absent, large majority of recognised (numbered) and only two (safflower and artichoke) taxa are represented by analytical draw- are cultivated plants. The two remaining ings. To some extent it even qualifies as Compositae subfamilies of the Iberian a pictorial Flora; and indeed the colour flora, Cichorioideae and Asteroideae, photographs at the end, being limited to are left for tome 2 an 3, respectively. a selection of just 21 genera, are excellent identification aids. The plant groups thus Jean-Marc TISON, Philippe JAUZEIN & represented are the orchids (100 photo- Henri MICHAUD – Flore de la France graphs), Compositae (79: 69 Hieracium, méditerranéenne continentale. – Con- 10 Tragopogon), “Liliiflorae” (75: 36 servatoire botanique national méditerra- Allium, 24 Tulipa, 15 Iridaceae), Oro- néen de Porquerolles & Naturalia, Tur- banche (42), Crassulaceae (39), Opuntia riers, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-909717-90-6). (15), Aristolochia (12), Pinguicula (10), 2078 pages, numerous drawings, 380 and Melampyrum (6). It is a real pity that

(6) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 2015 Publications there is no reference to these (unnum- stand as models far beyond the limited bered) photographs in the main text, nor geographical range for which they were even in the index: one has to know or to written. guess, or one will miss them. All in all, this Flora stands as a mile- Floras arranged according to the last cry stone in French botany. Its authors de- of phylogenetic systematics are still the serve our gratitude and admiration for a exception (fortunately so, many will huge amount of work well done. When feel), and the present one is among these writing these lines I had not yet seen the exceptions. Not for long, I dare say, as new Flora gallica, of which Tison is with the current rate of change in vascu- also the first author. It will doubtless lar plant classification the currently rec- expand the concepts of the present work ommended one will soon be almost as to the whole territory of France, if with out of date as the old Englerian system, lesser detail of descriptive and distribu- and more quickly forgotten. Within tional data. Which means that the year families, genera and species are also 2014 marks the onset of an entirely new arranged by known or perceived affinity, era for plant diversity studies in France. with the single exception of Um- Daniel JEANMONOD & Jacques GAMI- belliferae where the sequence is alpha- ème SANS – Flora corsica, 2 édition. [Bul- betical. The umbels, which happen to be letin de la Société Botanique du Centre- the last family in the APG linear ar- Ouest, Numéro spécial (ISSN 0759- rangement, are also unique in two other 934x), 39.] – Société Botanique du Cen- respects: they are the single family that tre-Ouest, Jarnac, 2013. 1074 pages, 134 was not authored or at least co-authored plates of drawings, 3 maps, 2 vegetation by either Tison or Jauzein, and the only profiles, tables; plastic cover. [55 €; re- one in which due credit is given to the ceived fall 2013.] author or source of the drawings. Other- wise, and this is the single real criticism This second edition follows the first (see I am bound to make, the illustrations are OPTIMA Newslett. 38: (18-19). 2008) anonymous, unless the subtitle on p. 9 be after only 6 years. Citing from the initial taken to infer that the text authors have review: “The wild flora of Corsica also drawn the figures (an unlikely as- comprises almost 2400 species, includ- sumption in view of the diversity of ing casual (10.5 %) and naturalised styles). (6,4 %) aliens. Endemism is consider- able, the 146 strictly endemic taxa corre- The treatment of notoriously difficult sponding to 6,3 % of the indigenous groups, one of the standards by which to flora. The new tenets of molecular-based judge “critical” Floras, varies widely. phylogeny have been followed with re- For example, Rosa and Rubus are dealt spect to family sequence: three ‘basal’ with rather summarily, with very broadly families (Nymphaeaceae, Lauraceae, delimited species, or for some of the Aristolochiaceae) precede the monocots, brambles down to subsectional level followed in turn by the dicots starting only; whereas Hieracium and Tarax- with Ceratophyllum. Family delimita- acum have received full and remarkably tions have been kept as is traditional, skilled attention. Their accounts will

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (7) Publications with deviating modern alternatives (the most being original drawings by Anne Angiosperm Phylogeny Group’s APG II Maury (signed AM) and B. Buonarroti family concepts) mentioned in brackets, (BB), others reproduced from published subtitles or notes.” In the latter aspects sources and mostly initialled by Ignazio the second edition does not deviate seri- Camarda and Franca Valsecchi, yet oth- ously from its predecessor, except that ers being facsimiles of the masterly reference is now made to the still newer plates in Moris’s Flora sardoa. APG III family concepts. Generic limits, Vladimir STEVANOVIĆ (ed.) – Flora however, and by consequence species Srbije, 2. – Srpska Akademija Nauka i nomenclature, were modified in a num- Umetnosti, Beograd, 2012. XIV + 619 ber of cases. The figure for species has pages, 66 plates of drawings, 142 maps; slightly increased (to 2411), reflecting hard cover. [Received fall 2013]. the addition of 25 additional units, not nd quite balanced by the loss of several Volume 2 of what is basically the 2 Hieracium taxa consequent to the thor- edition of Josifović’s well known Flora ough revision of that genus by Jean- SR Srbije follows vol. 1 (see OPTIMA Marc Tison. That loss also explains the Newslett. 30: (12). 1996) after an inter- lowering of the rate of insular endemism val of no less than 20 years. It comprises to 5.9 %. treatments of the orders Ran[uncul]ales (p.p.: Berberidaceae), Papaverales, Pier Virgilio ARRIGONI – Flora del- Hamamelidales, Urticales, Fagales, l’isola di Sardegna, 4. – Delfino, Sassa- Betulales, Juglandales, and Caryophyl- ri, 2013 (ISBN 978-88-7138-677-5). lales, with Caryophyllaceae as the by far Pages [5]-584, 232 plates of drawings or largest family. The Serbian distribution in facsimile; hard cover. [Received fall of species, except the widespread ones, 2013]. is now mapped individually. Hopefully, Previous volumes of this new, basic publication progress will henceforth Flora for the island of Sardinia – which speed up under a changed editorship. won its author the OPTIMA Silver Medal Mohamed FENNANE, Mohammed IBN for the year 2006 – have been presented TATTOU & Jalal EL-OUALIDI (ed.) – in detail earlier (see OPTIMA Newslett. Flore pratique du Maroc. Manuel de 38: (19-20). 2008; 40: (7-8). 2011). Vol- détermination des plantes vasculaires. ume 4 comprises the treatments of the Volume 3, Dicotyledones (p.p.), Mono- families Umbelliferae (the last dialypeta- cotyledones [Travaux de l’Institut Scien- lous one still missing, and the largest in tifique, Série Botanique (ISSN 1114- bulk) to Rubiaceae inclusive, among 1174), 40.] – Institut Scientifique, Uni- which Labiatae and Scrophulariaceae versité Mohammed V, Agdal, Rabat, (traditionally circumscribed) are promi- 2014 (ISBN 978-9954-20-671-3). XI + nent. This leaves Compositae and the 793 + [1] pages, map, 93 plates of monocots for the remaining 2 (or 3?) drawings + 99 figures; cloth with dust- volumes. As previously, the treatments cover. of genera and species are full, critical, and sometimes innovative. The illustra- To date, Morocco was the last among tion is generous and of excellent quality, the countries bordering the Mediterra-

(8) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 2015 Publications nean Sea to lack a completed descriptive colour photographs, 286 maps, illus- manual of its flora, a work permitting, trated on inside cover and cover flaps; by means of descriptions and keys, the plastified cover. [Ca. 17 €; received May identification of its plants. Now the cir- 2014]. cle has been closed. The present volume Peter SCHÖNFELDER & Ingrid SCHÖN- is the last missing link among Mediter- FELDER – Flora del Mediterraneo. – ranean Floras. Its publication is an event Ricca, Roma, 2014 (ISBN 978-88-6694- well worth being celebrated! 020-3). 320 pages, 875 colour photo- The two first volumes (see OPTIMA graphs, 286 maps, illustrated on inside Newsletter 38: (16). 2008) were pub- cover and cover flaps; plastified cover. lished in 1999 and 2007 as volumes 36 [29 €; received September 2014]. and 38 of the same prestigious mono- This pocket guide to the common and graph series of the Institut Scientifique characteristic representatives of the in Rabat, better known by its former Mediterranean flora has undergone sub- attribute Chérifien. The present, con- stantial change since its first edition in cluding volume encompasses the treat- the Kosmos Naturführer series (1987), ments of the last dicot families and even more so since its precursor, (Rubiaceae to Compositae) and of all “Das blüht am Mittelmeer” (Bunte Kos- monocots. The family key and illustrated mos Taschenführer, 1975), with its mere glossary are again included, and there is 120 photographs. The current, fifth edi- a cumulative index of genera for all vol- tion has been modernised in presentation umes. The presentation is elegant yet and improved in contents. For each of concise, avoiding details such as nomen- the 286 species treated in full a map clatural source and type citations that showing the area-by-area distribution is would be of scant interest for the botani- provided, using the Med-Checklist terri- cal practitioner. tories as a base but with addition of the The work as a whole is the essential in- Canary Islands. Under most entries, a strument required for the formation of a second species is illustrated and briefly new generation of keen Moroccan bota- commented upon, under the heading nists. It must not be seen as a concluding “Weitere Art”. It is slightly confusing, event but as the door to ongoing studies even though duly explained in the pref- leading, in a not too remote future, to an ace, that the map does not correspond to even better understanding and fuller the species shown immediately below, in knowledge of the extraordinary riches the same frame, but to the one that is and variety of the vascular plants of Mo- illustrated on the opposite page. Need- rocco. less to say, the photographs, taken by a botanist and master of the art, are not Popular Books only beautiful and technically perfect but also illustrative of the characteristic Peter SCHÖNFELDER & Ingrid SCHÖN- traits of the plant. As a first, the book is FELDER – Was blüht am Mittelmeer? available in parallel editions in Italian [ed. 5] – Kosmos, Stuttgart, 2014 (ISBN (see above), French and Croatian (not 978-3-440-13742-0). 320 pages, 875

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (9) Publications seen), which in an OPTIMA perspective works in Mediterranean plant science is particularly welcome news. published in recent years. A synthesis based on the first author’s experience of Voislav VASIĆ & Marina ILIĆ – Bel- a lifetime with North African plants and grade through nature and time. Guide on an extensive survey of old and recent through bio-geo-diversity of Belgrade. – literature, the Index raises our knowl- Association “School for Survival”, Beo- edge of the flora of that area to the level grad, 2012 (ISBN 978-86-914123-5-7). at which Med-Checklist has been aspir- 108 pages, colour photographs, maps, ing”. The Index covers the countries of table; paper. [Received fall 2013]. N Africa bordering the Mediterranean A guide and companion, through Bel- Sea plus Madeira, the Canary Islands grade and its immediate surroundings, and (partly) some southern bordering for the hiker with naturalistic interests. It areas. As in previous volumes, There are illustrates and comments monuments critical notes by various authors at the and geological features, gardens, parks end, plus updates to the four previous and individual trees, as well as represen- volumes, in which new country records tative plants, fungi and animals, strung are documented and several nomenclatu- up along suggested itineraries where one ral novelties presented (genera: Centran- can meet them. The acknowledged, thus, Colchicum, Danthonia, Pallenis, commendable purpose is to acquaint Polygonum, Potentilla, Ranunculus, visitors of all ages with the principal Saxifraga, Taraxacum, Verbascum, Vero- aspects of biological and geological di- nica). The number of accepted vascular versity in a very attractive urban area. plant species listed for the area in all five volumes reaches an impressive total of Floristic Inventories and Checklists 7860 (9098 different taxa).

Alain DOBIGNARD & Cyrille CHATE- Panayotis DIMOPOULOS, Thomas LAIN – Index synonymique de la flore RAUS, Erwin BERGMEIER, Theophanis d’Afrique du Nord. Volume 5 Dicoty- CONSTANTINIDIS, Gregoris IATROU, ledoneae, Oleaceae à Zygophyllaceae. Stella KOKKINI, Arne STRID & Dimit- [Publication hors-série N° 11d.] – rios TSANOUDAKIS – Vascular plants Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Ge- of . An annotated checklist. nève, 2011 (ISBN 978-2-8277-0128-5). [Englera (ISSN 0170-4818), 31.] – 451 pages, tables, map; laminated cover. Botanischer Garten & Botanisches Mu- [Received fall 2013]. seum Berlin-Dahlem & Hellenic Botani- The concluding volume of the work, for cal Society, Berlin & Athens, 2013 which the authors have been awarded (ISBN 978-3-921800-88-1). 372 pages, OPTIMA’s Silver Medal at the Organi- tables, maps, graphs, figures, 24 plates sation’s recent Meeting in Palermo, of colour photographs; hard cover. [42 €; September 2013. The previous volumes received November 2013]. have been reviewed in OPTIMA News- This is the first inventory ever of the lett. 40: (12-14). 2011 and 41: (11-12). vascular flora of Greece in its present 2013. To quote from the first review: political boundaries. In its core portion, “Doubtless one of the most important 6600 taxa (species and subspecies) oc-

(10) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 2015 Publications curring in Greece in the native or natu- designed for use by Afghan students. ralised state are listed in tabular form, The core is a complete checklist of the each with within-country distribution by Afghan vascular flora, in tabular form, 13 regions and indication of status, comprising accepted names and main chorology and life form categories. synonyms (with citation of nomenclatu- Other important chapters (or appendices) ral source); Afghan distribution by prov- list synonyms (including misapplica- inces (as small maps); general distribu- tions) and critical notes on individual tion; altitudinal range; and Notes (in- taxa. Literature has been covered very cluding references to the “Field Guide”, thoroughly and the information critically when applicable). Families, genera and assessed. The book is therefore a re- species are arranged alphabetically markably reliable while easy-to-use within the 4 main groups, pteridophytes, source of information. At the end, colour gymnosperms, dicots and monocots. The photographs, mostly by Arne Strid, show checklist was produced independently 216 of the species, including many ex- of, and often deviates from, Dieter tremely rare and seldom encountered Podlech’s recent (2012) Afghan check- ones. list available online, which furthermore lacks vascular cryptogams (see Siegmar-W. BRECKLE, Ian C. HEDGE http://www.sysbot.biologie.uni-muenchen. & M. Daud RAFIQPOOR – Vascular de/de/personen/podlech/flowering_plants_ plants of Afghanistan, an augmented afghanistan.pdf). checklist. – Scientia Bonnensis, Bonn, Manama, New York & Florianópolis, Regional Studies 2013 (ISBN 978-3-940766-64-9). 598 pages, numerous maps and colour pho- Gerald PAROLLY, Kathrin GROTZ & tographs, graphs, tables, 1 sheet of Cor- Hans Walter LACK (ed.) – Kaukasus. rigenda; hard cover. [Received January Pflanzenvielfalt zwischen Schwarzem 2014]. und Kaspischem Meer. Caucasus. This book, aptly dedicated to Karl Heinz Plant diversity between the Black and Rechinger and his widow Wilhelmina, is Caspian Seas. – Botanischer Garten und a companion volume to Breckle & Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Rafiqpoor’s “Field Guide Afghanistan” Berlin, 2014 (ISBN 978-3-921800-90-4). of 2010 (see OPTIMA Newslett. 40: 232 pages, numerous illustrations (pre- (17). 2011). The introductory and gen- valently colour photographs); laminated eral parts are again bilingual (English cover. [14€; Received May 2013]. and Tari), with the two versions side by The Caucasus Plant Diversity Initiative, side in parallel columns; but this time launched in 2009, is a joint endeavour the pagination runs front to back, not the of the Berlin-Dahlem Botanic Garden other way round as is the Arab custom. and Museum with the leading academic The general chapters were partly re- institutions of the Transcaucasian coun- written and much shortened, mainly at tries, funded to a large extent by the the expense of subjects such as physical Volkswagen Foundation. One of its out- geography and general notions of sys- comes, an important forum for the public tematic botany, that had been mainly presentation of its results, is an exhibi-

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (11) Publications tion that has been prepared at the re- (e.g. Callitriche, Carex, Cyperus, Persi- nowned Berlin-Dahlem institution, caria, Juncus), juxtaposed photographs which opened in May 2014 and is to last allow ready comparison and easy identi- one year. The present, fully bilingual fication. As most of the illustrated spe- volume is divided into two halves, the cies are widespread, the book, which has second being an explanatory guide to the an English summary, is likely to prove exhibition proper. The first half consists useful to botanists throughout the Medi- of a number of fluently written and in- terranean area. formative essays on various topics re- lated to (Trans-)Caucasian botany, by a Chorology large number of authors from all of the Arto KURTTO, Alexander N. SENNIKOV participating centres. Some present focal & Raino LAMPINEN – Atlas florae eu- studies on particular families and genera ropaeae. Distribution of vascular plants (pears, bluebells and the relict tree Zelko- in Europe, 16, Rosaceae (Cydonia to va), others are of historical interest (in par- Prunus, excl. Sorbus). – Committee for ticular, Walter Lack’s masterly synthesis Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas of the countries’ botanical exploration); Botanica Fennica Vanamo, Helsinki, several expand on the themes of conser- 2013 (ISBN 978-951-9108-17-9). 168 vation and sustainable use, through eco- pages, maps, tables and graphs; paper. tourism in particular; cultural, including [Received January 2014]. culinary and horticultural aspects feature prominently, with chapters on wine- This ought to have been the final making, saffron and pomegranate lore. Rosaceae volume; but there will be one more for Sorbus alone, “which has re- Studies of Flora and Vegetation cently experienced a renaissance of in- terest”. Of the 170 distribution maps, Sonja CONEVA, Valeri GEORGIEV, Vla- numbered 4709 to 4898, 30 relate to dimir VĂLEV & Anna GANEVA – Atlas each Crataegus and Prunus (sensu lato, vodni i vodoljubivi rastenija v Băl- being the single genus recognised in garija [Atlas of aquatic and wetland Amygdaloideae), and no less than 73 to plants of Bulgaria]. – Institut po Bio- Cotoneaster. Species inflation in the raznoobrazie i Ekosistemni Izsledvanija latter is largely due to Britain, where the pri Bălgarska Akademija na Naukite, genus is not native but numerous orna- Sofija, 2012 (ISBN 978-954-9746-28-0). mentals are reported as naturalised. Ge- 200 pages, prevalently of colour photo- neric limits have been kept stable in the graphs; hard boards with ring binding. traditional way, inclusion of Mespilus in [Received fall 2013]. Crataegus being the single exception. A splendid photographic atlas, depicting 150+ species of vascular plants and 13+ Excursions bryophytes out of the total of 345 re- Ina DINTER (ed.) – Türkei. Botanische corded Bulgarian hydrophytes and hy- Exkursion 2013. Institut für Botanik, drophilous plants. Concise texts provide Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart. 3.-17. relevant information for every species März 2013. – Universität Hohenheim, (or genus). For several critical groups

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Stuttgart, 2013 (ISBN 978-3-00-043497- tions on biological collecting). The third 6). V + 133 pages, maps, figures, colour and fourth item relate to excursions of photographs, tables; paper. [Received the traditional type, to the Central Pyre- November 2013]. nees of Aragón plus the Ebro delta and to Lycia, respectively (again, neither Ina DINTER (ed.) – Türkei. Botanische mentions vouchers). Even though the Exkursion 2014. Institut für Botanik, Spanish trip was part ornithological, Universität Hohenheeim, Stuttgart. 20.- botany clearly predominates in both 30. März 2014. – Universität Hohenheim, accounts, and also in the complementary Stuttgart, 2014 (ISBN 978-3-00-047553- documentation on CD-ROM. For Lycia 5). VI + 130 pages, maps, graphs, colour the latter, same as for previous excur- photographs, tables; paper. [Received sions, comprises a rich harvest of plant November 2014]. and landscape photographs; but not for Ina DINTER – Pyrenäen und Ebrodelta Spain, where the CD is entirely devoted (Spanien). Botanisch-Ornithologische to reproductions of relevant literature. Studienreise vom 17. – 28. Juni 2013. – Privately assembled/printed, Ostfildern, Applied Botany 2013. 57 pages + CD-ROM, maps, fig- ures, colour photographs, tables; paper, Ana PETROVA, Vladimir VLADIMIROV plastic front cover sheet. [Received No- & Valeri GEORGIEV – Invasive alien vember 2013]. species of vascular plants in Bulgaria. – Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosys- Ina DINTER – Südanatolien (Türkei). tem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Botanische Studienreise vom 1. – 15. Sciences, Sofija, 2013 (ISBN 978-954- April 2014. Exkursionsbericht. – Pri- 9746-30-3). 320 pages, numerous colour vately assembled/printed, Ostfildern, 2014. photographs, c. 60 distribution maps; V + 80 pages + CD-ROM, maps, graphs, hard cover. [Received fall 2013]. colour photographs, tables; paper, plastic front cover sheet. [Received November Following general, introductory back- 2014]. ground information, 60 selected species judged to be invasive or threatening to For the general scheme and layout of Ina become so are presented in alphabetical Dinter’s excursion accounts, see e.g. sequence. Excellent colour photographs OPTIMA Newslett. 41: (15-16). 2013. (mostly by Vlado Vladimirov), repre- The two first of the above items deviate senting both the general habit and habitat from the usual standard. They relate to and analytical details in close-up, permit university excursions to SW Anatolia to recognise each species with confi- and are formal publications, rather than dence. Details of the introduction and the customary privately published ac- spread are provided when available. Grid counts. They are partly based on the stu- maps visualise the current distribution in dents’ own records taken on the spot, Bulgaria, in which only the red dots and the field identifications listed are stand for documented occurrences (blue sometimes supported by photographs but dots denote the potential area of wide- not by vouchers (perhaps a result of spread but seldom collected weeds). ’s new, very restrictive regula- Remarkably, there appears to be not a

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (13) Publications single documented locality of that wide- entalis bar Greece and Egypt, even spread archaeophyte, Erigeron canaden- though for some aspects geographical sis! coverage may be more limited. The in- troductory portion deals with aspects of Neriman ÖZHATAY, Mine KOÇİĞİT & the physical geography, flora, vegetation Mehmet BONA – İstanbul’un ballı bit- and phytogeography on one hand, hu- kileri “Çiçek varsa bal var”. – Bal-der man settlement and archaeology on the Bee Products, [Istanbul, 2010?] (ISBN other. In the main portion, the treatment 978-605-86798-2-5). 264 pages, numer- is by families, genera and species. It is ous colour photographs, SEM micro- an exhaustive compendium of data on graphs, maps, graphs, table; hard cover. plants with their traditional uses, encom- [Received fall 2013]. passing any and all aspects of interest to A picture book and manual for the melli- man, throughout historical times. The ferous plants of the Istanbul area, with data derive from an impressive number Turkish text throughout. After introduc- and variety of published texts, including tory chapters, the main portion illustrates the writings of antiquity and ar- 150 (mainly) herbaceous species, chaeobotanical literature (listed for both grouped by flower colour, and 18 woody volumes at the end of vol 1). It is not plants, each with one or more excellent always clear how the botanical identity colour photographs (by Adil Önder Er- of the plants concerned has been estab- dem), a scanning micrograph of the pol- lished, particularly when important basic len, and a map showing its distribution Floras such as Rechinger’s Flora iranica in the Istanbul area. Thirteen cultivated and inventories like Heller’s Compen- honey-yielding plants form an appendix. dium florae orientalis have not or Diego RIVERA, Gonzalo MATILLA, scarcely been consulted. Usefulness of Concepción OBÓN & Francisco AL- the books would have been greatly en- CARAZ – Plants and humans in the hanced by running titles mentioning Near East and the Caucasus. Ancient family and genus, and by the presence of and traditional uses of plants as food and indexes. medicine. An ethnobotanical diachronic Conservation Topics review. Volume 1. The landscapes. The plants: ferns and gymnosperms. Volume Andrew BYFIELD, Sema ATAY & Ne- 2. The plants: angiosperms. – Servicio riman ÖZHATAY – Important plant de publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, areas in Turkey: 122 key Turkish bo- Murcia, 2012 (ISBN 978-84-15463-07- tanical sites. – WWF Turkey, İstanbul, 8, whole work; 978-84-15463-05-4, vol. 2010 (ISBN 978-605-60247-9-5). 463 1; 978-84-15463-06-1, vol. 2). 341 + pages, colour photographs and maps, 1057 pages, tables, graphs, maps; plasti- tables; paper. [Received fall 2013]. fied flexible cover. [Received fall 2013]. The 122 current Important Plant Areas The work focuses on, and bridges, the of Turkey were defined in 2003 (see interface between man and plants for a OPTIMA Newslett. 37: 90-91. 2004). In huge territory, coinciding approximately that initial presentation each could be but with the domain of Boissier’s Flora ori- briefly characterised, but three years

(14) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 2015 Publications later Neriman Özhatay a published a often bypassed in this kind of studies, book in which a selection of 22 of them adds considerably to the interest of this were described and illustrated more fully well presented, superbly illustrated com- (see OPTIMA Newslett. 38: (60). 2008). pendium, which also serves to document The present volume now gives a thor- the dynamics of change undergone by ough, generously illustrated account of urban areas: In 2011, at the onset of this all 122 Turkish APIs, with their exten- study, 23 priority sites had been defined; sion mapped and with lists, for each, of at the end, 4 had been added and 5 de- those species present that are of global leted, partly because they had meanwhile or European conservation concern. The been destroyed or had lost their priority consolidated inventory of these 3056 taxa species, partly because the latter’s al- is included in Appendix II, whereas Ap- leged presence rested on misidentifica- pendix III brings accounts of 87 threat- tion. ened endemic species of major concern. The alphabetic index to the subjects of Gardens and Gardening the almost 400 colour photographs is a Gideon F. SMITH & Estrela FIGUEI- useful complementary feature of the REDO – Succulent paradise. Twelve great book. gardens of the world. – Struyk Lifestyle, Florian MOMBRIAL, Beat BÄUMLER, Cape Town, 2013 (ISBN 978-143170- Philippe CLERC, Christine HABASHI, 090-5). 184 pages, numerous colour pho- Hélène HINDEN, Catherine LAMBELET- tographs; paper. [Received December HAUETER, Pascal MARTIN, Michelle 2014]. PRICE & Raoul PALESE – Flore en The book is a round-trip to a selection of ville. Sites et espèces d’intérêt en Ville twelve botanic gardens specialised in the de Genève. [Publication hors-série n° growing of succulent plants, or having a 15.] – Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques large section thus specialised. They are de la Ville, Genève, 2013 (ISBN 978-2- scattered over three continents (Africa, 8277-0130-8). 276 pages, photographs, Europe, North America) and seven coun- graphs, maps, tables, all in colour; lami- tries: (2), France (2), nated cover. [Received December 2014]. Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, the USA Essentially this is a description of 22 (4), and Mexico. None is among the urban priority sites, defined for conser- great, universally known institutions of vation purposes on the basis of the pres- their kind; rather, they are small gardens ence of priority plant species; as well as of mostly recent origin, familiar mainly a characterisation of the priority species to insiders, often founded by privateers themselves. It rests on thorough invento- and some still privately owned. With a ries, 2011 to 2013, of vascular plants, single exception (the City of Zürich’s bryophytes and lichens present in each Succulent Plant Collection) they are site. On a total surface area of merely 46 situated in climates in which succulents ha 771 species are recorded: 437 vascu- can be freely grown out of doors – half lar plants (57 %), 149 bryophytes of them in Mediterranean-type climate (19 %), and 185 lichens (24 %). The full zones. An instructive and beautiful book, documentation of the two latter groups, full of surprises and novel perspectives.

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Mariachiara POZZANA. – The gardens lists of publications, and relevant biblio- of Florence and Tuscany. Complete graphic sources. In the first half, the guide. – Giunti, Milano, 2011 (ISBN main protagonists of Bulgarian botany 978-88-09-75952-7). 191 pages, numer- are treated – not all of them Bulgarian ous colour photographs, drawings, maps; nationals: Frivaldsky, Janka; Pančić, laminated cover with flaps. [14.90 €; Velenovský, Georgiev, Petkov, Urumov, Received 27 Feb 2015]. Davidov, Bubak, Adamović, Arnaudov, Stojanov, Stefanov, Achtarov, Jordanov, This is the ultimate guide to Tuscany’s Christov, and Kitanov. The 30 botanists gardens. It describes and colourfully of the second half, while obviously less illustrates 9 gardens within the city of well known, are also less documented Florence, 15 in the surroundings and 37 in literature and therefore of particular elsewhere in the region: a glorious total interest. Both halves are in fact second of 61, each with details of access, open- editions, as is obvious from the preface ing hours and fees. Not counted in the matter but not mentioned in the impres- total are 34 gardens judged to be of sum: the “Founders” volume was first lesser importance or interest and only published in Plovdiv, by the same editor, briefly mentioned, among them the Bo- in 2008; the “Little known names” one tanical Gardens of Pisa and Lucca! If in Sofia, by Pensoft, in 2001. you want to visit even a good selection only, which is certainly worth your Francesco Maria RAIMONDO – Con- while, plan well ahead, take your time, tributi alla promozione della cultura and choose a good season. botanica. A cura di Franco PEDROTTI. [Collana Natura e Aree Protette, 29.] – Bibliography and Biography Temi, Trento, 2015 (ISBN 978-88- 97372-83-7). 245 pages, facsimiles in Stefan STANEV – Părvostroiteli na colour; paper with cover flaps. [15 €; Bălgarskata botanika. Malko poznati Received 26 Feb 2015]. imena ot Bălgarskata botanika. – Uni- versitetsko izdatelstvo “Paisij Hilendar- Presented to Raimondo at a symposium ski”, Plovdiv, 2015 (ISBN 978-619-202- in Florence commemorating his recent 022-4). 617 pages, black-and-white pho- 70th birthday, this book is a rather un- tographs (portraits); hardcover. [Re- usual kind of festschrift, having been ceived Mar 2015]. written entirely by the birthday boy him- self. It is also unprecedented in its con- As the title suggests, this is two books in tents. It is a (not quite complete) com- one, continuously paginated. The first pendium of introductions to books and in half (pp. [3]-326) is devoted to the some cases almanacs as well as lauda- “Founders of Bulgarian botany”, the tions written by Raimondo. An excellent second (pp. 327-615) to “Little known idea, is it not? One worthy of being cop- names in. Bulgarian botany”. Both con- ied. But then, how many persons, bota- sist of extensive biographical sketches, nists in particular, do you know to have with mention of new discoveries (includ- published over 100 such items – enough ing newly named taxa), distinctions re- to fill a sizeable volume – as did Rai- ceived (such as taxa named after each), mondo over a period of just 25 years

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(starting in 1990, the last being dated 15 record in her respective specialty and an January 2015)? The 105 texts included often prominent academic career; but (but unfortunately not indexed), embel- several other you have hardly ever heard lished by the colourful facsimiles of the of and whose name, in some cases, has front covers of the respective publica- been newly unearthed here for the bo- tions, cover a vast range of topics, from tanical sciences. The book is written is a purely botanical, even nomenclatural, to well readable, very personal style testify- historical, biographic, geographical, pic- ing to the personal involvement of its torial and generally cultural, reflecting author, herself a member of the fair sex Raimondo’s broad sphere of skills and with botanical interests, in the persons interests. The title was aptly chosen by and circumstances she describes. the editor Pedrotti, who also invented the Kristin VICTOR (ed.) – Carl Hauss- whole idea. It expresses the fact that by knecht. Ein Leben für die Botanik this kind of contributions, which many [Beiträge aus den Sammlungen der Uni- may consider marginal and are indeed a versität Jena, 2.]. – Friedrich-Schiller- mere by-product of a prolific botanical Universität, Jena, 2013 (ISBN 978-3-00- career, Raimondo has certainly done much 044408-1). 111 pages, photographs (mostly to promote botanical culture in general. in colour), facsimiles, maps; paper. [Re- Elena MACELLARI – Botaniche italia- ceived November 2013]. ne, scienziate naturaliste appassionate. A Festband produced as a corollary and [Collana Natura e Aree Protette, 28.] – guide booklet for an exhibit to com- Temi, Trento, 2015 (ISBN 978-88- memorate the well known botanist and 97372-80-6). 233 pages, ca. 150 illustra- founder of the Haussknecht Herbarium, tions in colour or black-and-white; paper Carl Haussknecht (1838-1903). Many with cover flaps. [20 €; Received 26 Feb original documents of botanical interest 2015]. are reproduced, including portraits of This anthology of nine full and a dozen contemporary botanists, mapped itinerar- short biographies of women who, some ies of Haussknechts SW Asian collecting overtly and prominently but many by expeditions, and herbarium specimens. discreet and modest work, have taken There is an updated bibliography of influence on the development of botany Haussknecht’s publications (by H: in Italy is not one of the too many books Manitz), a list of names of plants (plus written in vindictive feminist style but a one land snail) commemorating dispassionate display of how persons of Haussknecht, and accounts of his collec- female sex, while operating within the tions – not only herbarium and library: often constraining social and cultural antiquities and coins, too, formed part of environment of their time, managed to his range of interest. A treasure trove for promote scientific knowledge in their all interested in 19th Century travelling discipline. You will find well-known and in the botanical and geographical figureheads among them, such as Eleon- exploration of SW Asia. ora Francini Corti, Daria Bertolani Guido MOGGI – Frammenti di memo- Marchetti and Carmela Cortini Pedrotti, ria. Spigolature botaniche: personaggi, each with a distinguished publication

2015 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 42 (17) Publications collezioni, storie. – Polistampa, Firenze, lendarski”, Plovdiv, 2014 (ISBN 978- 2013 (ISBN 978-88-596-1276-6). 157 954-423-928-2). 193 pages, black-and- pages, richly illustrated (photographs, white photographs (portraits, group pho- drawings, graphs, facsimiles, maps, ta- tographs) and facsimiles; paper. [Re- bles), mostly in colour; paper. [Received ceived Mar 2015]. fall 2013]. The titles translates “History of Bulgar- Illustrated text of 11 lectures presented ian botany in dates”. Botanically rele- by the author at various conferences and vant events related to Bulgaria are enu- meetings between 1978 and 2008, but so merated in a year-by-year sequence, far unpublished. The range of subjects is starting 1774 with Italian diplomat broad: biographical (A. Lunardi, R. E. G. Domenico Sestini’s visit and spanning Pichi Sermolli), museological and his- to 2013. Among others, deaths, confer- torical (Museum Minà Palumbo, Gal- ences, and book publications are put on lipoli museum and library, Palermo Bo- record, with a list of relevant sources as tanic Garden, acclimatization gardens in an extra bonus. The book is not easy to Tuscany, pre-Linnean plant systematics), consult, even for the Bulgarian speaking, particular plants (palms, saffron, com- owing to the lack of indexes. mon oak) – and where to place a subject Laura TALLANDINI (ed.) – Arte bota- such as the use of islets as penal colonies nica in Italia oggi. Botanical art in and its influence on their flora? A wealth Italy today. – Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2013 of diverse information, to which the ac- (ISBN 978-884673768-7). 87 pages, with cess is somewhat facilitated by good 9 pages of black-and-white and 31 of indexes (plant and personal names). At colour illustrations; paper with cover the end there is Moggi’s succinct cur- flaps. [14 €; Received 27 Feb 2015]. riculum vitae and a list of his publica- tions. The booklet, prepared as a guide to the homonymous exhibition at the Padova Per Magnus JØRGENSEN – Under Botanic Garden in October-November magnoliaen. Plantminner. – John Grieg, 2013, comprises four bilingual (Italian Bergen, 2013 (ISBN 978-82-533-0301- and English) texts and a colourful ample 7). 167 pages, photographs (mostly col- of the artworks on exhibit. Two of the our), drawings, facsimiles; paper. [Re- chapters are devoted to the garden’s his- ceived fall 2013]. tory, from its foundation in 1545 as the Assembles the author’s and eminent li- earliest such institution still in existence chenologist’s botanical (mostly non- today to its restoration and enlargement, lichenological) reminiscences, conceived achieved in 2013 as a consequence of the as his last report presented when retiring Garden’s inclusion in UNESCO’s World from his academic career. Heritage List in 1997. The two remain- ing chapters are on botanical illustration History and Arts and are largely based on the invaluable holdings of the Garden’s library. The title, Stefan STANEV & Ana PETROVA – Is- thus, does not really justice to the varied torija na bălgarskata botanika v dati. and interesting contents of the book. – Universitetsko izdatelstvo “Paisij Hi-

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Gabriele GALASSO & Enrico BANFI – – Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, Flora dipinta. Elementi botanici nel- 2015 (ISBN 978-3-87429-480-5). xix + l’arte di Bernardino Luini [Natura 492 pages; hard cover. (Milano), 104(2), ISSN 0369-6243]. – More than two years after the main body Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali & of the ICN (see OPTIMA Newslett. 41: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Mila- (22-23). 2013) and with more than twice no, 2014. 152 pages, numerous photo- its bulk, the Appendices traditionally graphs and facsimiles in colour; lami- forming part of it have at last been pub- nated cover. [Received January 2015]. lished. The Nomenclature Section of the An exhibition devoted to the works of Melbourne Congress had authorised this Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini dissociation, wisely as it now appears. (1481-1532), contemporary of Leonardo Not only would joint publication have da Vinci, was shown in spring and sum- resulted in too heavy and cumbersome a mer 2014 in the Palazzo Reale of Milan. volume, it would also have delayed sub- It prompted the publication of the pre- stantially the availability of the rules sent book: an interpretation of the plants themselves. During the editing process, shown on a selection of 14 of Luini’s John Wiersema incorporated the contents remarkably naturalistic paintings. In the of the Appendices in a database that also first portion of the volume, the painting encompasses Dan Nicolson’s famous themselves and botanically relevant por- “Proposals and Disposals” dataset pro- tions of them are shown; the second por- viding insight into the historical back- tion presents the 43 species identified, ground of each current entry. The result both alive and in botanical illustrations, of Wiersema’s effort is an extremely especially the 16th Century books of useful, online searchable information sys- Fuchs and Mattioli and an 18th Century tem (http://botany.si.edu/references/codes manuscript of Giambattista Morandi. /props/index.cfm), which hopefully will henceforth be kept up to date. It is Names and Nomenclature unlikely that hard-copy production of the Appendices can be maintained in the John H. WIERSEMA, John MCNEILL, future, as every new edition will soon Nick J. TURLAND, Fred R. BARRIE, become outdated with respect to the William R. BUCK, Vincent DEMOULIN, online version. Werner GREUTER, David L. HAWKS- WORTH, Patrick S. HERENDEEN, Sandy Carlos E. de M. BICUDO & Jefferson KNAPP, Karol MARHOLD, Jefferson PRADO (transl.) – Código Internacional PRADO, Willem F. PRUD’HOMME VAN de Nomenclatura para algas, fungos y REINE & Gideon F. SMITH – Interna- plantas (Código de Melbourne), ado- tional Code of Nomenclature for algae, tado pelo XVIII Congresso Internacional fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) de Botânica, Melbourne, Austrália, Julho adopted by the Eighteenth International de 2011. Preparado e editado por J. Botanical Congress, Melbourne, Austra- MCNEILL, Coordenador, F. R. BARRIE, lia, July 2011. Appendices II-VIII. W. R. BUCK, V. DEMOULIN, W. [Regnum Veg. (ISSN 0080-0694), 157.] GREUTER, D. L. HAWKSWORTH, P. S. HERENDEEN, S. KNAPP, K. MARHOLD, J.

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PRADO, W. F. PRUD’HOMME VAN REINE, additionally, have resulted in a substan- G. F. SMITH, J. H. WIERSEMA, Membros, tial restructuring and rearrangement of N. J. TURLAND, Secretário del Comitê Edi- an important chapter. It is therefore good torial. – Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, to see the Melbourne Code translated to 2013 (ISBN 978-85-7656-290-0). XXXIV several languages relevant in the Medi- + 208 pages; paper. [Received fall 2013]. terranean domain. To our knowledge, at least one more such translation, into Werner GREUTER & Pietro MAZZOLA Turkish, is in the pipeline (transl.) – Codice Internazionale di Nomenclatura per alghe, funghi e Congresses and Meetings piante (Codice di Melbourne), adottato dal Diciottesimo Congresso Internazio- Franco PEDROTTI & Paolo GEROLA nale di Botanica, Melbourne, , (ed.) – 108° Congresso della Società luglio 2011. Preparato e edito da J. Botanica Italiana onlus. Centro Con- MCNEILL, Presidente, F. R. BARRIE, W. gresso Piné 1000, Via C. Battisti, 98 Ba- R. BUCK, V. DEMOULIN, W. GREUTER, selga di Piné (Trento), 18-20 settembre D. L. HAWKSWORTH, P. S. HERENDEEN, 2013. Riassunti. Relazioni – Comuni- S. KNAPP, K. MARHOLD, J. PRADO, W. cazioni – Posters. – Società Botanica F. PRUD’HOMME VAN REINE, G. F. Italiana, Firenze, 2013 (ISBN 978-88- SMITH, J. H. WIERSEMA, Membri, e N. J. 85915-07-7). 203 pages, figures, graphs, TURLAND, Segretario del Comitato Edi- maps, tables; paper. [Received fall 2013]. toriale. [Informatiore Botanico Italiano Includes the scientific programme of the (ISSN 0020-0697), volume fuori serie]. Congress, followed by abstracts of 24 lec- – Società Botanica Italiana & Fondatione tures and 156 oral or poster presentations. Internazionale Pro Herbario Mediterraneo, Palermo, 2014 (ISBN 978-88-85915-09- Simonetta PECCENINI & Giannianto- 1). XXXII + 208 pages; laminated flexible nio DOMINA (ed.) – Società Botanica cover with flaps. [Received June 2014]. Italiana, Gruppo per la Floristica. Con- The original English edition of the Mel- tributi alla ricerca floristica in Italia. bourne Code and its Spanish translation, Comunicazioni. Orto Botanico, La Sa- published almost simultaneously at the pienza Università di Roma, 18-19 otto- end of 2012, have been reviewed in OP- bre 2013. – Società Botanica Italiana, TIMA Newslett. 41: (22-23). 2013 Firenze, 2013 (ISBN 978-88-85915-08- (q.v.). Translations to Portuguese and 4). 56 pages, tables; paper. [Received Italian have now followed, both of which October 2013]. are their perfect typographical likeness Short versions of 21 papers presented at as to cover and text. In both cases, one the annual meeting of the SBI Gruppo of the translators had participated ac- per la Floristica. For reviews of the ab- tively in the preparation of the English stract booklet for the 4 previous meet- edition; faithfulness of translation can ings, see OPTIMA Newslett. 39: (32). therefore be safely assumed. The deci- 2010; 40: (31-32). 2011; 41: (11-12). sions taken by the Melbourne Congress 2013. Disregarding the group’s previ- have led to fairly important changes in ously taken majority decision, three new the rules governing nomenclature and, combinations are again validly published

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in abstracts (genera Caroxylon and Franco PEDROTTI (ed.) – Stelvio ’70. Helichrysum), but the intended name of Biodiversità, dinamica del paesaggio e a new subspecies is not, due to lack of gestione delle aree montane. 8-11 set- English or Latin descriptive material. tembre 2005. Rabbi (Trentino), Italia [Colloques phytosociologiques, 29.] – Lorenzo PERUZZI & Gianniantonio Tipolitografia Editrice TEMI, Trento, DOMINA (ed.) – Società Botanica Ita- liana, Gruppo per la Floristica, Sistema- 2013 (ISBN 978-88-97372-59-2). 799 tica ed Evoluzione. Floristica, sistema- pages, illustrations (some in colour), tables; hard cover. [25 €; received April tica ed evoluzione. Comunicazioni. Orto 2014]. Botanico, La Sapienza Università di Roma, 21-22 novembre 2014. – Società The Symposium “Stelvio ’70” was held Botanica Italiana, Firenze, 2014 (ISBN in the Rabbi valley, Trento Province, N. 978-88-85915-10-7). 52 pages, tables; th Italy, to commemorate the 70 anniver- paper. [Received November 2014]. sary of the foundation of the Stelvio Na- Short versions (two pages each) of 23 tional Park. It had “Biodiversity. Land- papers presented at the annual meeting scape Dynamics and Management of of the former SBI Gruppo per la Floris- Mountain Areas” as one of its three main tica, renamed for the occasion, with the themes. Papers presented in that section title of the booklet reflecting the newly the manuscripts of which had been sub- adopted name. The object of 19 of the mitted before the end of 2005 (!) make paper is a single species or species group up the present volume: 58 papers in Eng- of the genera Allium, Amaranthus, An- lish (28), Italian (22), French (6) or drosace, Anthemis, Bituminaria, German (2), followed by a Guide to the Carduus, Corydalis, Crocus, Euphorbia, Congress excursion. Some of the gray- Gymnospermium, Helichrysum, Limo- tone pictures and graphs of the text re- nium (2), Pancratium, Pinguicula, Rha- appear in colour at the end of the volume ponticoides, Sedum, Utricularia, Veron- (pp. 767-796). Most papers are related to ica; three have a regional focus: Central situations in the Alps, but some concern Apennine, Latium, Lombardy; and one the Apennines, Sicily, Bulgaria, Russia, concerns the Visiani herbarium in Padua. Caucasia and even Iran.

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OPTIMA COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES (2013-2019)

Commission on Bryophytes Commission on Mediterranean Type Secretary: R. M. Ros, Murcia Material E-mail: [email protected] Chair: J. Molina, Montpellier Secretary: G. Domina, Palermo E-mail: [email protected] Commission for Common Names

Secretary: M. Aghababyan, Erevan E-mail: [email protected] OPTIMA Herbarium and Library Commission Commission for DNA Banking Chair: W. Greuter, Palermo & Berlin Secretary: F. M. Raimondo, Palermo Chair: M. Bou Dagher Kharrat, Beirut E-mail : [email protected] A. Scialabba, Palermo E-mail: [email protected] Commission for Karyosystematics and Molecular Systematics Commission for the conservation of Economically important and Chair: G. Kamari, Patras Endemic Plants Secretary: C. Blanché, Barcelona E-mail : [email protected] Chair: V. H. Haywood, Reading Secretary: J.M. Iriondo E-mail : [email protected] Prize Commission Secretary: G. Domina, Palermo Commission for the Diffusion on E-mail: [email protected]

Knowledge on Mediterranean Plants Chair: O. Vasić, Beograd Secretary: U. Plittman, Jerusalem E-mail: [email protected]

Commission on Fungi

Chair: G. Venturella, Palermo

Secretary: G. I. Zervakis, Athens

E-mail: [email protected]

Itinera Mediterranea Commission

Chair: B. Valdés, Seville Secretary: E. Vitek, Wien E-mail: [email protected] Lichen Commission

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Contents

Publications Offer ...... 1 OPTIMA Membership ...... 5 OPTIMA News ...... 6 XII OPTIMA ITER 2014 ...... 7 Meetings Announcements ...... 10 Notices of Publications ...... (1) OPTIMA ...... (1) Cryptogams ...... (1) Gymnosperms ...... (3) Phanerogams ...... (4) Floras ...... (5) Popular Books ...... (9) Floristic Inventories and Checklists ...... (10) Regional Studies ...... (11) Studies on Flora and Vegetation ...... (12) Chorology ...... (12) Excursions ...... (12) Applied Botany ...... (13) Conservation Topics ...... (14) Gardens and Gardening ...... (15) Bibliography and Biography ...... (16) History and Arts ...... (18) Names and Nomenclature ...... (19) Congresses and Meetings ...... (20)