Abstract: A catalogue of the vascular plants that make up the flora of the Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi is presented. The catalogue was compiled after analyzing different types of sources (both published and unpublished works, herbarium specimens, vegetation data, etc.). Although the check-list is primarily based on bibliography, there is quite an amount of new data for the area resulting from unpublished observations and specimens collected by the study group or from checks and confirmation of herbarium specimens. The total number of species registered is 1357, of which 1125, subdivided in 97 families, are to be considered indigenous confirmed by data subsequent to 1960, while the rest can be distinguished in alien to the Park’s territory (most of which cultivated), doubtful, or not found, or in some cases excluded. Through the study, the extent of the Park’s phytodiversity has been quantified and confirmed as being very high due to the fact that the territory hosts valuable forest ecosystems among the best preserved in Europe, and its geographical position renders it a “trait d’union” between two very different floristic typologies, a northern one and a southern one. The data analysis carried out on the chorology of the species of phytogeographic interest show that, in Italy, several entities have their northern or southern distributional limit here. The endemism present in the territory is essentially northern-Apennine and peninsular, while the chorological category with the highest percentage is the European (sensu lato) one. The floristic characteristics of the different environments have been analyzed both in general as well as compared to the species of conservation interest. In this regard it has been noted that herbaceous habitats, particularly dry grasslands, those at high altitudes and rocky environments contain the highest conservation value as they contain more than half of the relevant plants. The single environment that contains the largest number of species of conservation interest (30%) is, however, the mesophilic wood environment and this further confirms the importance of the forest flora of the Park. Finally, it is pointed out that this check-list has to be considered a useful starting point, which can be implemented and improved, for the knowledge of the vascular flora of this marvellous territory and certainly not an end result.

An annotated check-list of the vascular flora of the “Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna” (Northern Apennines Central Italy) / Viciani D.; Gonnelli V.; Sirotti M.; Agostini N.. - In: WEBBIA. - ISSN 0083-7792. - STAMPA. - 65 (1):(2010), pp. 3-131. [10.1080/00837792.2010.10670867]

An annotated check-list of the vascular flora of the “Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna” (Northern Apennines Central Italy).

VICIANI, DANIELE
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2010

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Abstract: A catalogue of the vascular plants that make up the flora of the Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi is presented. The catalogue was compiled after analyzing different types of sources (both published and unpublished works, herbarium specimens, vegetation data, etc.). Although the check-list is primarily based on bibliography, there is quite an amount of new data for the area resulting from unpublished observations and specimens collected by the study group or from checks and confirmation of herbarium specimens. The total number of species registered is 1357, of which 1125, subdivided in 97 families, are to be considered indigenous confirmed by data subsequent to 1960, while the rest can be distinguished in alien to the Park’s territory (most of which cultivated), doubtful, or not found, or in some cases excluded. Through the study, the extent of the Park’s phytodiversity has been quantified and confirmed as being very high due to the fact that the territory hosts valuable forest ecosystems among the best preserved in Europe, and its geographical position renders it a “trait d’union” between two very different floristic typologies, a northern one and a southern one. The data analysis carried out on the chorology of the species of phytogeographic interest show that, in Italy, several entities have their northern or southern distributional limit here. The endemism present in the territory is essentially northern-Apennine and peninsular, while the chorological category with the highest percentage is the European (sensu lato) one. The floristic characteristics of the different environments have been analyzed both in general as well as compared to the species of conservation interest. In this regard it has been noted that herbaceous habitats, particularly dry grasslands, those at high altitudes and rocky environments contain the highest conservation value as they contain more than half of the relevant plants. The single environment that contains the largest number of species of conservation interest (30%) is, however, the mesophilic wood environment and this further confirms the importance of the forest flora of the Park. Finally, it is pointed out that this check-list has to be considered a useful starting point, which can be implemented and improved, for the knowledge of the vascular flora of this marvellous territory and certainly not an end result.
2010
65 (1)
3
131
Viciani D.; Gonnelli V.; Sirotti M.; Agostini N.
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