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Published: 2017-12-12
Page range: 281–288
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The rediscovery of Silene guicciardii (Caryophyllaceae) on Mt. Parnassos (Greece) after 160 years: taxonomic re-evaluation and conservation

Laboratory of Systematic Botany, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece
Division of Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Rio, 26500 Patras, Greece
Laboratory of Systematic Botany, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Systematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 157 03 Athens, Greece
Eudicots distribution extinct species IUCN nomenclatural change Silenoideae typification

Abstract

Silene guicciardii (Caryophyllaceae) was rediscovered after field surveys carried out on Mt. Parnassos (Sterea Ellas, Greece), 160 years after the type collection made by J.B. Samaritani and J. Guicciardi in 1857. Since its first collection, it has been considered either as a distinct species, a variety or a mere synonym of the SW-Asiatic S. marschallii. We provide a revised description of the species and we re-evaluate its taxonomic position and that of the related species. We propose to treat the taxon guicciardii at the subspecific rank of S. marschallii. A color plate of S. marshallii subsp. guicciardii and a distribution map for all subspecies of S. marschallii are also provided. The name Silene guicciardii was lectotypified on a specimen preserved at G-BOIS, while isolectotypes are at G-BOIS, B, BR, C, GOET, JE, K and WU.