Ferretti, Giulio

Fiorini, Graziana

Foggi, Bruno

Mannocci, M.

Mazzoncini, V.

Viciani, Daniele

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 With the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic 109° Congresso della  Società Botanica Italiana  INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE (IPSC) FROM NATURE TO TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLOITATIONS Florence, 2 - 5 September 2014   Programme Index Relations Communications Posters Author Index Authors Scientific Committee Local Committee Sponsor Supporter Maps of Congressual sites With the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Società Botanica Italiana 109° Congresso International Plant Science Conference (IPSC)  Florence, 2 - 5 September 2014 Home page  Scientific Committee  Prof. Donato Chiatante (President) Prof. Francesco Maria Raimondo (SBI President) Prof. Pier Virgilio Arrigoni Prof. Andrea Bennici Prof.ssa Maria Beatrice Bitonti Prof.ssa Paola Bonfante Prof. Carlo Blasi Prof. Alessandro Bruni Prof. Ignazio Camarda Prof.ssa Nicoletta Cannone Prof. Guido Chelazzi Prof.ssa Lucia Colombo Prof. Giovanni Cristofolini Prof. Giuseppe Dalessandro Prof. Fabio Garbari Prof. Paolo Grossoni Prof.ssa Laura Maleci Prof.ssa Michela Marignani Prof.ssa Marta Mariotti Lippi Prof. Guido Moggi Prof. Enio Nardi Prof. Ettore Pacini Prof. Mauro Raffaelli Prof. Bruno Romano Prof.ssa Consolata Siniscalco Index Index Posters 109° Congresso S.B.I. (IPSC) - Florence, 2 - 5 September 2014 Home page 155 4.4 = SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING SAXIFRAGA GRANULATA S.L. IN THE TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO (NORTHERN TYRRHENIAN SEA): EVIDENCES FOR DESCRIBING NEW TAXA IN CAPRAIA AND MONTECRISTO ISLANDS  GIULIO FERRETTI1, MAIRO MANNOCCI2, VIVIANO MAZZONCINI2, GRAZIANA FIORINI1, BRUNO FOGGI1, DANIELE VICIANI1 1Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via G. La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy; 2Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo, Via Roma 234, 57127 Livorno, Italy  The genus Saxifraga L. (Saxifragaceae) has a holarctic distribution and counts more than 440 species, including about 120 living in Europe (1). Seven species with four additional subspecies are currently reported within the Series Saxifraga (2). Multi-year floristic and systematic research both in the wild in the Tuscan Archipelago (Central Italy) and in herbaria allowed to investigate some interesting populations of Saxifraga living in Capraia, Elba and Montecristo islands and known since the end of the nineteenth century. The territory covered by the three populations is located on the border between the distribution areas of S. granulata L. and S. corsica (Ser.) Gren. & Godr. Over the years the taxonomic treatment concerning these populations has undergone various interpretations, sometimes considering them as belonging to S. granulata group and sometimes as belonging to S. corsica group. The Capraia population was formally taken into account by Sommier (3), who described a new infra-specific taxon with the name S. granulata var. brevicaulis Sommier. The three populations were analyzed both from the morphological and caryological points of view. Morphological investigation was carried out both on living cultivated plants and on dried specimens (exsiccata) stored in several herbaria (FI, FIAF, GDOR, GE, PIAGR, PI). Morphologically the three populations can be assigned to two distinct groups: the Elba population presents the typical features of Saxifraga granulata s.s., whereas the populations of Capraia and Montecristo certainly belong to the group of S. granulata s.l. (including S. corsica); however they show numerous peculiar characteristics that make it difficult to identify them within S. granulata s.s. or S. corsica s.s. (plant height less than 20 cm, corymbiform inflorescence, style-stigma complex shorter than the calyx, stigma flattened and elongated rather than rounded). Cytological studies in the genus Saxifraga present many practical difficulties (4), further complicated by an extremely marked intraspecific aneuploidy, leadingto different chromosome numbers within populations taxonomically considered as individual species (5). The ongoing caryological investigation showed low chromosome counts for the Elba and Montecristo populations and higher counts for the Capraia population. These results and other morphometric evidences as well highlight the differences between the populations of Capraia and Montecristo.  The affinity of the Elba population with S. granulata s.s., widely distributed in the Italian peninsula, can be well explained by the geographic contacts between the Elba Island and the mainland till the last glacial period. Similarly, the isolation of Capraia and Montecristo, dating back to the Upper Messinian, may have allowed the differentiation and stabilization of individuals distinguishable from the original pool. In conclusion, based on the results of the present study, and on the geographical and ecological isolation, we propose to assign the populations of Capraia and Montecristo to two new taxa, that will be described in shortly, separated either from S. granulata s.s. or S. corsica s.s.   1) D.A. Webb (1993) Saxifraga L.. In: Tutin T.G., Burges N.A, Chater. A.O., Edmondson J.R., Heywood V.H., Moore D.M., Valentine D.H., Walters S.M., Webb D.A. (eds), 1993 - Flora Europaea. 2nd edition. Volume 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. pp. 437-458. 2) D.A. Webb, R.J. Gornall (1989) Saxifrages of Europe. Christopher Helm, London 3) S. Sommier (1898) Aggiunte alla florula di Capraia. Nuovo Giorn Bot Ital n.s. 5, 106–139 4) C. Favarger (1965) Notes de caryologie alpine, IV. Bull. Soc. Neuchteloise Sci. Nat. 88, 15-23 5) S. Kumar, S. Kumari, R.C. Gupta, V.K. Sharma (2013) Additions to the cytology of Saxifraga (Saxifragaceae) from the Western Himalayas, India. Botanica Serbica 37(2), 147-154  

Systematic investigations concerning Saxifraga granulata s.l. in the Tuscan Archipelago (northern Tyrrhenian sea): evidences for describing new taxa in Capraia and Montecristo islands.

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Systematic investigations concerning Saxifraga granulata s.l. in the Tuscan Archipelago (northern Tyrrhenian sea): evidences for describing new taxa in Capraia and Montecristo islands.

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