Updated checklist of Poa in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands.

ABSTRACT: Based on our study of 4,845 herbarium sheets of the genus Poa from the area covered by Flora iberica, namely, the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, we recognise 24 taxa (17 species, 1 subspecies and 8 varieties), mostly perennials. Most of these taxa have wide global and/or European distributions, while two (P. legionensis and P. minor subsp. nevadensis) are Spanish endemics and two have restricted distributions (P. ligulata, Iberia-North Africa; P. flaccidula, Iberia-North Africa and the Balearic Islands, extending to Provence, France). We have studied the original publications of more than 225 names considered as synonyms, with those more historically cited in Flora iberica taken into account in this paper; a total of 26 are new synonym

SUBMITTER: Ortega-Olivencia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050348 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature