Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 8

ABSTRACT

The paper presents new records of 24 vascular plant species from 11 Eurasian countries. One taxon (Orobanche laxissima) is reported from Armenia; one (Epipactis condensata) from Azerbaijan; two (Phragmites americanus, Polygala multicaulis) from Belarus; one (Stipa caucasica) from Egypt; one (Puccinellia hauptiana) from Kyrgyzstan; three (Aquilegia xinjiangensis, Geranium saxatile, Ranunculus songaricus) from Mongolia; one (Stipa roborowskyi) from Pakistan; three (Echinochloa muricata, Erigeron acris subsp. podolicus, Hypericum majus) from Poland; six from Russia, whereof one (Zanthoxylum armatum) from the European part of Russia and five (Chaerophyllum aureum, Elsholtzia densa, Poa compressa, Ranunculus subrigidus, Viola sororia) from the Asian part of Russia; two (Ludwigia repens, Sagittaria latifolia) from Slovakia; and three (Rubus ambrosius, Rubus camptostachys, Rubus perrobustus) from Ukraine. For each species, synonyms, general distribution, habitat preferences, taxonomy with remarks on recognition and differentiation of the species from the most similar taxa occurring in a given country, as well as a list of recorded localities (often far from the previously known areas), are presented.

KEYWORDS:

• Chorology
• taxonomy
• native species
• alien species
• Asia
• Europe

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to anonymous reviewers for their improvements and critical comments to the manuscript as well as to the curators of BP, DE, ERCB, IRK, KTC, KRA, LE, LW, LWS, M, MSKU, MW, NS, POZ, SAV, TK, UBA, UBU herbaria for their kind hospitality and assistance during our visits and for making some specimens available on loan. K. Oklejewicz would like to thank Prof. Jerzy Zieliński for verification and identification of Rubus specimens. G. Király’s research was supported by the project “EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00018”; V.V. Byalt’s research was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 16-44-890088), the Comprehensive Program of the institutional research project (no. 01201160361) of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Science and Innovation of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region (grant no. 01-15/4, 25 July 2012); A.P. Seregin’s research was carried out in accordance with Government order # АААА-А16-116021660039-1; A.V. Molnár’s research was supported by Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA K108992); J. Marciniuk’s and P. Marciniuk’s research under theme no. 342/13/S (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities) was financed from the science grant granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; R. Piwowarczyk’s research on holoparasitic Orobanchaceae in Armenia was financed by the National Geographic grant GEFNE 192-16 (2017); A.L. Ebel’s, A.V. Verkhozina’s and E.Yu. Zykova’s researches were supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 16-04-01246 A); L. Kipriyanova’s research was carried out within the framework of the Scientific Program 134.1 and was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants no.13-04-02055-a, 14-04-10164-k, 15-29-02498-ofi_m); A. Erst’s study was financially supported by Scientific Program no. АААА-А17-117012610055-3 of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden, SB RAS (field work in Asia) and Tomsk State University competitiveness improvement programme (revision in the herbaria LE); W. Wang’s research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 31770231 and 31270269) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association Foundation of CAS; H.J. Choi’s research was supported by research project (Project title: “A Survey on the Vascular Flora of Mongolia”; grant no. KNA 1-2-20, 14-4) of the Korean National Arboretum; O. Batlai’s research was supported by research project Water Cope funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD funding no. I-R1284-WATERCOPE.) and “A Survey on the Vascular Flora of Mongolia”, grant no. KNA 1-2-20, 14-4) of the Korean National Arboretum; V.I. Troshkina’s research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR, grant no. 15-29-02429); B. Shukherdorj’s research was supported by research project (project title: “A Survey on the Vascular Flora of Mongolia”; grant no. KNA 1- 2-20, 14-4) of the Korean National Arboretum; G. Sramkó’s research was supported by Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA PD109686); R. Hrivnák’s research was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contracts no. APVV-0059-11 and APVV-16-0236; P.D. Gudkova’s research was financially supported by the grant of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) 18-34-20112; V.N. Tikhomirov’s and M.A. Dzhus’s research was supported by a State Program of Scientific Research “Nature Management and Ecology” (2.10.1); A. Wróbel’s research was supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education via the Diamond Grant programme (decision no. 0207/DIA/2018/47); M. Nobis’ researches were financially supported by the National Science Centre, Poland based on the decision no. 2018/29/B/NZ9/00313 and, in part, by the Institute of Botany of Jagiellonian University K/ZDS/008058.

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This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland [2018/29/B/NZ9/00313].

Notes on contributors

Marcin Nobis

Marcin Nobis (ORCID: 0000-0002-1594-2418) is a researcher and assistant professor of the Institute of Botany Jagiellonian University in Kraków and curator of the KRA herbarium. His main research fields are taxonomy, chorology, phylogeny and ecology of native and non-native vascular plants. The author’s contributions are the idea and project coordination, field and/or laboratory research, and preparing the manuscript.

Ewelina Klichowska

Ewelina Klichowska is interested in taxonomy, evolution and ecology of vascular plants with particular emphasis on genus Stipa. The author’s contribution is preparation of selected part of the manuscript.

Ana Terlević

Ana Terlević is a biology graduate from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) whose interests cover floristics and ecology of native and non-native vascular plants of Central and Southern Europe. She spent three months as a trainee at the Institute of Botany of Jagiellonian University where she took part in research related to alien invasive plants in Poland. The author revised herbarium materials and co-wrote selected parts of the manuscript.

Anna Wróbel

Anna Wróbel is an MSc student of biology at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. She carries out research about taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Puccinellia and Eragrostis, and is also interested in evolution of plants occurring in the mountains. The author was involved in field studies and co-wrote selected part of the manuscript.

Andrey Erst

Andrey Erst’s main research fields are taxonomy and chorology of native flora of some Asian mountains, taxonomy, and phylogeny of vascular plants (especially Ranunculaceae). The author’s contribution is preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Richard Hrivnák

Richard Hrivnák is a senior researcher at the Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. The author’s contributions comprised field work and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Aleksandr L. Ebel

Aleksandr L. Ebel is a professor of the Department of Botany and a researcher of the Laboratory of Systematics and Phylogeny of Plants at Tomsk State University. He is working on systematics of flowering plants, diversity, and biogeography of vascular plants of Siberia and Kazakhstan. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Valery N. Tikhomirov

Valery N. Tikhomirov is researcher and assistant professor at the Department of Botany Belarusian State University. He is working on the systematics of flowering plants, and the diversity and biogeography of vascular plants of East Europe, especially on the native flora of Belarus. The author’s contributions comprised field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Vyacheslav V. Byalt

Vyacheslav V. Byalt is a senior research fellow at the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He works on systematics of flowering plants, diversity and biogeography vascular plants of the north of Western Siberia and some other regions of Eurasia. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Polina D. Gudkova

Polina D. Gudkova has worked on the systematic and evolution of feather grasses since 2007. She has conducted field studies in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Nepal, focusing on their diversity, ecology, phylogenetics, systematics and biogeography. The author’s contributions are revision of herbarium materials and the preparation of selected part of the manuscript.

Gergely Király

Gergely Király has experience in taxonomy, chorology and floristics of the Central European flora and nature conservation. He participated in several national and European projects on alien plant species and Red Lists of threatened vascular plants. The author’s contributions are field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Laura M. Kipriyanova

Laura M. Kipriyanova is a researcher at the Novosibirsk Branch of Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The author’s contributions comprised field work and preparation of selected part of the manuscript.

Marina Olonova

Marina Olonova has worked on the systematic and evolution of bluegrasses for more than 40 years. She has conducted many field studies in Siberia, China and Tajikistan, focusing on their diversity, systematics and biogeography. The author’s contributions are analyses of data and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Renata Piwowarczyk

Renata Piwowarczyk (ORCID: 0000-0003-0507-7835) is a researcher and assistant professor of the Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (Poland). The author’s main research fields are holoparasitic plants (Orobanchaceae), taxonomy, plant ecology, plant biology and phylogenetics. The author conducted field work in the Caucasus, and contributed to the preparation of selected part of the manuscript.

Artur Pliszko

Artur Pliszko’s (ORCID: 0000-0003-3620-6695) main research interests lie in the area of taxonomy and ecology of natural hybrids between alien and native plant species. Much of his work has been devoted to identifying the vascular plant flora in the selected regions of the Polish part of the Lithuanian Lakeland. The author’s contribution is the preparation of the text concerning the first record of Erigeron acris subsp. podolicus in Poland.

Stanisław Rosadziński

Stanisław Rosadziński is a researcher interested in aquatic and wetland vegetation. The author’s contributions are field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Alexey P. Seregin

Alexey P. Seregin(ORCID: 0000-0002-1824-7453) is a head of the Moscow University Herbarium (MW), vice president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Being a founder of the Moscow Digital Herbarium initiative, he is now administrating further digitization of the major Russian herbaria. His main research interests are plant recording and taxonomy. The author’s contributions are field research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Vitaliy Honcharenko

Vitaliy Honcharenko is currently working on taxonomy and chorology of the genus Rubus in Ukraine and Belarus as well as on adventive species in the west of Ukraine. The author’s contributions comprised field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Jolanta Marciniuk

Jolanta Marciniuk is interested in the taxonomy and chorolgy of vascular plants, especially Taraxacum sect. Palustria. The author participated in the field studies.

Paweł Marciniuk

Paweł Marciniuk main research intrest are taxonomy of the genus Taraxacum, chorology and ecology of the vascular plants. The author participated in the field studies.

Krzysztof Oklejewicz

Krzysztof Oklejewicz’s (†1962–2018) main research interests were plant chorology and taxonomy of the genus Rubus, Crataegus and Taraxacum. The author’s contributions comprised field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Mateusz Wolanin

Mateusz Wolanin is a researcher at the University of Rzeszow (Poland), currently working on taxonomy and chorology of dandelions and blackberries in Poland. The author’s contributions comprised field studies and preparation of the manuscript.

Oyuntsetseg Batlai

Oyuntsetseg Batlai’s main research field are taxonomy and chorology of native flora of Mongolia, taxonomy and phylogeny of vascular plants (especially Brassicaceae). The current projects are “Diversity Survey on the Mongolian Vascular Flora”. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Kateřina Bubíková

Kateřina Bubíková is a researcher at the Water Research Institute in Bratislava. The author’s contributions comprised field work and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Hyeok Jae Choi

Hyeok Jae Choi main research are systematics (taxonomy), evolutionary biology and ecology of the genus Allium. The current projects are “Diversity Survey on the Mongolian Vascular Flora”, “Monograph for the Genus Allium” and “Taxonomy and Systematics of the Genus Sagittaria”. The author conducted field research in Mongolia and his contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Maxim A. Dzhus

Maxim A. Dzhus works as assistant professor at the Department of Botany in Belarusian State University. His scientific interests are connected with studying of aboriginal and alien taxa of vascular plants (distribution, taxonomy and caryology) in Belarusian flora, systematic of Scrophulariaceae s.l. in Europe, history of floristic investigations in Belarus. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Judita Kochjarová

Judita Kochjarová is a senior researcher at the Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen. The author’s contributions comprised field work and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Attila V. Molnár

Attila V. Molnár’s interests covers taxonomy, chorology and ecology of vascular plants (especially orchids). The author’s contributions are field research and preparing selected part of the manuscript.

Agnieszka Nobis

Agnieszka Nobis is a botanist interested mainly in the distribution model of vascular plants in river valleys and the explanation of river corridor plants’ distribution pattern. The author’s contributions are field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Arkadiusz Nowak

Arkadiusz Nowak has worked on the syntaxonomy of Middle Asia vegetation with special focus on forest, scree, rock, segetal and riparian vegetation. He has conducted many field studies in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. The author’s contributions are field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Helena Oťaheľová

Helena Oťaheľová is an emeritus senior researcher at the Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. The author’s contributions comprised field work and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Miklós Óvári

Miklós Óvári’s interest covers taxonomy, chorology and ecology of vascular plants (especially orchids). The author’s contributions are field research and preparing selected part of the manuscript.

Igor I. Shimko

Igor I. Shimko works as senior lecturer at the Fodder Production Department in Viciebsk Academy of Veterinary Medicine. His scientific interests covers such problems as distribution features of vascular plants in Viciebsk region, ecology and biology of rare and protected species in Belarus, flora of protected areas, perennial fodder representatives of pea family in agriculture. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected part of the manuscript.

Baasanmunkh Shukherdorj

Baasanmunkh Shukherdorj is currently a PhD student at the Department of Microbiology, Changwon National University in Korea. The author does research in “Diversity Survey on the Mongolian Vascular Flora”. The author conducted field research in Mongolia.

Gábor Sramkó

Gábor Sramkó is a senior researcher interested in evolutionary history of plants with a special focus on orchids and steppe plants. The author’s contributions are field studies and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Victoria I. Troshkina

Victoria I. Troshkina is a researcher at the Laboratory of Systematics and Florogenetics of Higher Vascular Plants at Central Siberian Botanical Garden. She is working on systematics, taxonomy, morphology, palinomorphology and chorology of genus Geranium L. of Siberia, Kazakhstan, Central and Middle Asia. The author’s contributions are revision of herbarium material and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Alla V. Verkhozina

Alla V. Verkhozina is a head of Group Herbarium (IRK) of the Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology & Biochemistry at Irkutsk. Her main research interests are study of the flora of Baikal Siberia. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Wei Wang

Wei Wang (State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing) is an associate professor of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research fields are taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of land plants. The author contributed to the preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Kunli Xiang

Kunli Xiang is a PhD student of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is interested in taxonomy and phylogeny of angiosperms (especially in Ranunculaceae). The author’s contribution included preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.

Elena Yu. Zykova

Elena Yu. Zykova is a researcher at Laboratory Herbarium (NS) of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden at Novosibirsk. Her main research interests are study of the alien flora of Southern Siberia. The author’s contributions are field and laboratory research and preparation of selected parts of the manuscript.