Typification of the Linnaean name Centaurea sibirica (Asteraceae)

Centaurea Linnaeus (1753: 909) (Asteraceae) comprises a large number of taxa mainly occurring in the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia (Susanna & Garcia-Jacas 2007). The former wide concept of Centaurea resulted in a polyphyletic assemblage, and it has been recently split into several putatively monophyletic genera Centaurea, Psephellus Cass. and Rhaponticoides Vaill. (Wagenitz & Hellwig 2000; Greuter 2003; Hellwig 2004; Susanna & Garcia-Jacas 2007, 2009). Centaurea sibirica Linnaeus (1753: 913) is spreading from S Russia to W Siberia and Central Asia (Wagenitz & Hellwig 2000), it is one of the species of sixty-nine names in Centaurea described by Linnaeus and is currently accepted as Psephellus sibiricus (L.) Wagenitz (Wagenitz & Hellwig 2000: 37). However, from a nomenclatural standpoint, Centaurea sibirica has not been typified (Jarvis 2007, Ferrer-Gallego et al. 2014a, 2014b, 2014c, Altınordu & Ferrer-Gallego 2015, Ferrer-Gallego & Altınordu 2016, Iamonico & Peruzzi 2016). This paper designates a lectotype for C. sibirica based on the protologue and consultation of Linnaeus’s original material.

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Typification of the Linnaean name Centaurea seridis (Asteraceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.186.4.8 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 186 (4) ◽

pp. 236 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

PEDRO PABLO FERRER-GALLEGO ◽

Roberto Roselló ◽

Emilio Laguna ◽

Alberto Guillén ◽

José Gómez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Region ◽

Balearic Islands ◽

Original Material ◽

Southwest Asia ◽

Northwest Africa ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

South Europe

The genus Centaurea Linnaeus (1753: 909) (Asteraceae) comprises a large number of taxa mainly occurring in the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia (Susanna & Garcia-Jacas 2007). Centaurea seridis Linnaeus (1753: 915) is distributed from south Europe (Spain incl. Balearic Islands, Italy incl. Sicily, France, Albania and Greece) to northwest Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). From a nomenclatural standpoint, Centaurea seridis has not been typified (Jarvis 2007: 402). This paper proposes the designation of a lectotype for this Linnaean name, based on the analysis of the protologue and original material.

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Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of steppe vegetation on cape Tarhankut in Crimea (Ukraine)

Biological Letters ◽

10.2478/v10120-009-0005-1 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 97-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Stanisław Seniczak ◽

Sławomir Kaczmarek ◽

Anna Seniczak

Keyword(s):

Central Asia ◽

Age Structure ◽

Mediterranean Region ◽

Mediterranean Climate ◽

Vegetation Type ◽

Sea Breeze ◽

Oribatid Mites ◽

Steppe Vegetation ◽

Geographic Expansion ◽

The Mediterranean

Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of steppe vegetation on cape Tarhankut in Crimea (Ukraine)Oribatid mites were investigated in patches of steppe vegetation, dominated by esparto (Stipasp.), other grasses,Artemisia caucasica, Sedumsp., mosses, or lichens, on cape Tarhankut in Crimea (Mediterranean climate). These mites were quite abundant and rich in species there, probably thanks to the fresh sea breeze and geographic expansion of species from the Mediterranean region, Central Asia, and Europe. They achieved the highest density in patches of steppe grasses other than esparto, but most species occurred in sedum patches. The most abundant wasTectocepheus velatus, especially in patches of steppe grasses other than esparto, and relatively abundant wereScutovertexsp. 1,Jacotella neonominataandScheloribates laevigatus. In populations of these species the adults usually dominated, but their age structure greatly depended on vegetation type.

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Hating Our Enemies—2 Kings, Nahum, and Jonah

Opening Israel's Scriptures ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190260545.003.0025 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 246-255

Author(s):

Ellen F. Davis

Keyword(s):

Central Asia ◽

Mediterranean Region ◽

Seventh Century ◽

Capital City ◽

Small States ◽

Total Domination ◽

The Face ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Exclusive Focus ◽

Minor Prophets

The Prophets do not view the territory of Israel and Judah in isolation from its neighbors, the surrounding small states, and especially the vast empires that threatened or dominated the region throughout most of the monarchic period. For more than a century, the dominant force was Assyria; its fate is the exclusive focus of two of the Minor Prophets, Nahum and Jonah. Total domination of the Mediterranean region began during the expansionist reign of the Assyrian ruler Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BCE) and continued until the last decades of the seventh century, when the empire gradually weakened in the face of multiple enemies. The capital city of Nineveh fell in 612 BCE, as the Chaldean dynasty in Babylon began its own spectacular rise to dominance of western and central Asia....

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Typification of the name Centaurea deusta Ten. (Asteraceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.399.4.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 399 (4) ◽

pp. 296 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ADRIANO STINCA ◽

FABIO CONTI ◽

FABRIZIO BARTOLUCCI

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Region ◽

Southwest Asia ◽

Perennial Herbs ◽

The Mediterranean

Centaurea Linnaeus (1753: 909) (Asteraceae) is a widely distributed genus from the Mediterranean region to southwest Asia which includes approximately 250 species (Susanna & Garcia-Jacas 2009). It contains annual, biennial and perennial herbs, less often shrubs, with usually unarmed leaves and very variable scarious or spiny bract appendages that represent the first trait used for systematics within the genus.

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