An updated checklist of the vascular flora native to Italy

Abstract

An updated inventory of the native vascular flora of Italy, providing details on the occurrence at regional level, is presented. The checklist includes 8195 taxa (6417 species and 1778 subspecies), distributed in 1092 genera and 152 families; 23 taxa are lycophytes, 108 ferns and fern allies, 30 gymnosperms and 8034 angiosperms. The taxa currently occurring in Italy are 7483, while 568 taxa have not been confirmed in recent times, 99 are doubtfully occurring in the country and 19 are data deficient. Out of the 568 not confirmed taxa, 26 are considered extinct or possibly extinct.

Keywords:

• Endemism
• floristic diversity
• Italy
• Mediterranean flora
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge collegues and friends who provided distribution, nomenclatural and taxonomic advices: Michele Adorni, Aldo Antonietti, Loris Bagli, Fausto Bonafede, Giovanna Bosi, Eugenia Bugni, Mario Calbi, Antonio Croce, Roberto Dellavedova, Marco D’Antraccoli, Giorgio Faggi, Germano Federici, Umberto Ferrando, Giulio Ferretti, Filiberto Fiandri, Helmut Freitag, Bruno Gallino, Giovanni Gestri, Luigi Ghillani, Matteo Gualmini, Laura Guglielmone, Sigurd E. Fröhner, Cesare Lasen, Wolfgang Licht, Umberto Lodesani, Fabrizio Martini, Marta Bandini Mazzanti, Anna Maria Mercuri, Nicola Merloni, Sergio Montanari, Villiam Morelli, Sergei L. Mosyakin, Franco Orsino, Konrad Pagitz, Guglielmo Pandolfo, Roberto Pascal†, Marziano Pascale, Mauro Pellizzari, Enrico V. Perrino, Franco Picco, Filippo Piccoli, Annalaura Pistarino, Enrico Romani, Daniele Saiani, Claudio Santini, Fabio Semprini, Consolata Siniscalco, Giancarlo Tondi and Michele Vignodelli.