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Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 19
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- Galasso, Gabriele1
- Domina, Gianniantonio2
- Bartolucci, Fabrizio3
- Buffi, Francesca4
- Ciaramella, Dario5
- Del Guacchio, Emanuele6
- Fogazza, Tancredi7
- Fontana, Daniel8
- Giacò, Antonio9
- Grasseschi, Giacomo8
- Landi, Sara10
- Manni, Quintino G.11
- Mascia, Francesco12
- Mei, Giacomo13
- Mezza, Ilaria5
- Motti, Riccardo6
- Pazienza, Gaetano14
- Pirani, Silvia15
- Quaranta, Luca5
- Ravetto Enri, Simone16
- Lastrucci, Lorenzo17
- 1. Sezione di Botanica, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milano, Italy
- 2. Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
- 3. Università di Camerino - Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga, L'Aquila, Italy
- 4. Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
- 5. Università del Molise, Isernia, Italy
- 6. Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
- 7. Unaffiliated, Palermo, Italy
- 8. Ecological Research and Services for the Environment (ERSE), Lucca, Italy
- 9. Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- 10. Unaffiliated, Bologna, Italy
- 11. Unaffiliated, Lecce, Italy
- 12. Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
- 13. Libera Università di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
- 14. Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- 15. Unaffiliated, Torino, Italy
- 16. Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
- 17. Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, exclusions, and status changes from casual to naturalized for Italy or for Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Abutilon, Aloë, Asparagus, Bidens, Cortaderia, Cyperus, Lonicera, Melia, Sesbania, and Ulmus. A new combination in the nothogenus ×Aloiampaloë is proposed. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as Suppl. material 1.
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