Juniperus macrocarpa Sm.

Islands, Pontine, Conti, Lazio Fabio & Giacanelli, Valeria, 2023, Short communication Contribution to the vascular flora of Ventotene and Santo Stefano islands (Pontine Islands, Lazio, Italy) with two taxa new to Lazio, Natural History Sciences 10 (1), pp. 83-86 : 84

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4081/nhs.2023.637

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EE87A4-FF88-FF9A-FFE8-B23BFAF0FECA

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scientific name

Juniperus macrocarpa Sm.
status

 

Juniperus macrocarpa Sm. View in CoL ( Cupressaceae )

The distribution and origin of this species in the Pontine Islands deserve clarifications. Calbi et al. (2017) hypothesized a natural origin for this juniper recorded for

Ventotene. We observed the taxon in the same two localities (Cala Rossano, over Cala Bosco) and, additionally, in Via Parata Grande. Although the habitus and the growing habitats could support the thesis of Calbi et al. (2017), we learned from an inhabitant of the island that these junipers were planted about 30 years ago by an agronomist.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Cupressaceae

Genus

Juniperus

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