Vitis berlandieri Planch., Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci

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Vitis berlandieri Planch., Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci , 91: 425(-428). 1880.

Neophyte excluded from the flora of Sicily.

Notes. The record of V. berlandieri by Giardina et al. (2007), subsequently repeated by Raimondo et al. (2010), besides referring only to residuals of cultivation, is doubtful and has to be referred to either V. × koberi or V. × ruggerii : as already pointed out by Ardenghi et al. (2014) on the basis of viticulture sources (e.g., Galet, 1988; Eynard & Dalmasso, 1990), pure V. berlandieri has never been employed as rootstock, being impossible its reproduction from cuttings. Thus, the presence of this species both in the wild and in cultivation is improbable.