3.A Economic Actors in the Hellenistic and Roman Empires: The Mediterranean and Southwest Asia

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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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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Iberia

Collision of Worlds ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190864354.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 50-94

Author(s):

David M. Carballo

Keyword(s):

Animal Husbandry ◽

Southwest Asia ◽

Imperial Rome ◽

Fertile Crescent ◽

History Of ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Economic Developments ◽

Administrative Strategies ◽

The Waves ◽

Cultural Developments

A deep history of Iberia examines the waves of conquest and cultural developments on the Iberian peninsula. Agriculture was imported to Iberia from the Fertile Crescent region of Southwest Asia and included animal husbandry and the use of pack animals. Autonomous cultural developments of native Iberians were stimulated by maritime powers that sailed west along the Mediterranean: the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans, each growing in their imperial reach and providing a base for later political and economic developments. Iberians also took advantage of their geographical setting on a peninsular hinge between the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds, which connected two major maritime spheres of interaction and saw the development of hybrid ships increasingly suited to open ocean crossing. Following the collapse of imperial Rome, Iberia fluctuated between Christian and Islamic rule, with the former emerging victorious after a centuries-long program of national unification known as the Reconquista, or “reconquest.” Crops introduced by Muslims and administrative strategies implemented by Christian kingdoms in frontier regions were direct predecessors of the plantation-like economies eventually imposed on the Americas.

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Typification of the Linnaean name Centaurea sibirica (Asteraceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.253.3.10 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 253 (3) ◽

pp. 235 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

FAHIM ALTINORDU

Keyword(s):

Central Asia ◽

Mediterranean Region ◽

Original Material ◽

Southwest Asia ◽

The Mediterranean

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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