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The paper lists sixteen new neophytes for the flora in Croatia. The grass Setaria parviflora has been naturalized in the Šibenik area (Solaris, Zablaće) for some time now but the grass Bromus catharticus has been found only recently, in Zadar (Voštarnica). Their seed was probably brought in as a seed admixture used to form lawns on public areas. Th...
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... glaucum ( Fig. 9) is an annual robust grass (up to 4 m tall) and it originates from tropical Africa (ANDREWS & KUMAR, 2006). It is commonly grown as a grain crop in the semi-arid regions of Africa and the Indian subcontinent as well as a fod- der crop in the Americas, South Africa and Australia (ANDREWS & KUMAR, 2006). P. glaucum was recorded as a ...
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... This new alien species to Italy was already reported in other countries of Europe and the Mediterranean area. It is reported as casual and ephemeral species in Czech Republic (Pyšek et al. 2012), France (Tison and de Foucault 2014), Great Britain (Clement and Foster 1994), Netherlands and Belgium (Verloove and Vandenberghe 1995), while it is indicated as naturalized in Croatia (Milović et al. 2010), Portugal (Webb 1968) and Spain (Pavia and Nogueira 2006). It is categorized as "not established" in Lithuania, Sweden, and Norway, while its status is unknown in Ukraine and Denmark (Valdés 2011, NOBANIS 2021. ...
Sida rhombifolia L. (Malvaceae) has been reported for the first time in Italy. This species with a Paleotropics geographic origin represents a new invasive alien species in the flora of Italy. It was already reported in several European countries as invasive species, but this plant is also known for its medicinal properties in many areas of the world. The species was found in the anthropic environments of Sicily. In particular, the study area is localized in the Peloritani Mounts (NE Sicily) where the species was discovered in five stands. Our new discovery confirmed the role of anthropic activities have had in the alien species invasion in Italy. Diagnostic features, ecological and geographic data are provided. From a phytosociological viewpoint, this plant characterizes a plant community that includes various nitrophilous species such as Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop., Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. and Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. Moreover, invasiveness and impacts associated to this species were assessed by using EPPO prioritization protocol. The specimens were deposited in the herbaria of Catania and Messina University.
... These numbers are constantly rising. New introductions are being continuously reported and have been published over the last decade and this can reasonably be expected to continue in the future (Bogdanović et al. 2003(Bogdanović et al. , 2006Topić and Ilijanić 2003;Alegro et al. 2010;Milović et al. 2010;Jasprica et al. 2017;Rimac et al. 2018;Kabaš et al. 2019;Maslo 2019). Biological invasions are recognized as a significant component of human-caused global environmental change. ...
Amaranthus tuberculatus, commonly known as the rough-fruited water-hemp, is a dioecious annual weed species originating from North America. It has been introduced into Europe and Asia, where it is mostly considered a naturalized or casual alien occupying riparian areas, agricultural fields and disturbed habitats, especially in commercial port areas. Here we report the first occurrence of the species in Croatia, the second in Southeastern Europe. Flowering male and female individuals were found in 19 localities in the Pannonian part of Croatia. Female individuals from all localities had flowers with only one tepal and a dehiscent fruit and were therefore identified as A. tuberculatus var. rudis. In the studied area, the species was most frequently recorded along the banks of the Sava River and eutrophicated drainage channels passing through arable land. Here, it was present within vegetation of the alliance Nanocyperion Koch 1926 (class Isoëto-Nanojuncetea Br.-Bl. et Tx. in Br.-Bl. et al. 1952) and the alliance Bidention tripartitae (class Bidentetea Tx. et al. ex von Rochow 1951), as well as on the edges of alluvial willow and poplar forests (Salicion albae Soó 1951, class Salicetea purpureae Moor 1951). Furthermore, it was recorded on river sandbars, concrete embankments and other disturbed habitats (along the railroad, a road, on a construction site). Although the species is a well known agricultural weed and the majority of our study area is composed of arable land, A. tuberculatus was not detected in this habitat type. However, we believe that it is highly probable that it will spread into new areas and suitable habitats, and strongly recommend the occupied area to be monitored.
... Senecio angulatus is a succulent climbing plant native to South Africa, introduced for ornamental purposes in southern Europe, Macaronesia, northern Africa, California, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand. Currently, it is naturalized in Albania (Barina et al. 2011), Croatia (Milović et al. 2010), Iberian peninsula (Romero Buján 2007Pyke 2008), and Chile (Ugarte et al. 2011) and is considered one of the most invasive species in the western Mediterranean area (Brundu et al. 1999), Mediterranean France (Brunel and Tison 2005), Australia (Ross and Walsh 2003;Randall 2007), and New Zealand (Bergin 2006). This species was introduced in Italy in 1875 (Maniero 2015). ...
In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Bunias, Calocedrus, Calycanthus, Celosia, Clerodendrum, Convolvulus, Crassula, Cyclamen, Datura, Dicliptera, Eragrostis, Erigeron, Gamochaeta, Gazania, Impatiens, Kolkwitzia, Leucaena, Ludwigia, Medicago, Muscari, Nigella, Oenothera, Opuntia, Paulownia, Petroselinum, Phyllostachys, Physalis, Pseudosasa, Quercus, Reynoutria, Roldana, Saccharum, Sedum, Semiarundinaria, Senecio, Sisyrinchium, Solanum, Sporobolus, Tulipa, Vachellia, Verbena, and Youngia. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.
... A total of 66 species and five varieties are present in the Old World (Morrone et al. 2014). In the European vascular flora eight species have been recorded according to Valdés and Scholz (2009) (Milović et al. 2010). S. adhaerens has been reported in Europe as native in Corse, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Turkey (Valdés and Scholz 2009), and as introduced in Belgium with Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal, Sardegna, Sweden and Ukraine (Karlsson 1987, Valdés andScholz 2009). ...
Setaria adhaerens (Forssk.) Chiov. a pantropical plant species present in some parts of the European continent has been recorded for the first time in Croatia in two anthropogenic habitats in Dalmatia and one in Kvarner bay. The paper presents a short morphological description and photographs of the new alien species, as well as its distribution. A determination key is given for the Setaria taxa most frequently found in Europe.
... In many regions of the world it is naturalized, while in Europe is cultivated locally for edible fruits (Hawkes 1972). It has the status of casual species in Austria (Essl and Rabitsch 2002), Belgium (Valdés 2012), the Czech Republic (Pyšek et al. 2002), Great Britain (Clement and Foster, 1994), and Slovenia (Lešnik 2009); and of naturalized species in Croatia (Milović et al. 2010), while it is considered invasive in Greece (Travlos 2012). The species is also present in Albania (Tan and Mullaj 2000) and Denmark (Nobanis 2005), but the status of naturalization is unclear. ...
... The species is also present in Albania (Tan and Mullaj 2000) and Denmark (Nobanis 2005), but the status of naturalization is unclear. The means of introduction differs from country to country: escape from cultivation (Albania, Austria, Slovenia), soya bean importation (Belgium, Verloove 2011, Croatia, Milović et al. 2010, Slovenia, Lešnik 2014, cereals (Croatia, Milović et al. 2010), oil seed and wool (Britain, Clement and Foster 1994), remains of picnic meals (Greece, Bőhling 2001). The oldest record of this species in Europe dates from 1961 (Belgium, Verloove 2011).With respect to ecology the species grows best in moist, fertile soils, it is tolerant to partial shade and occurs widely as a weed of crops and pastures, and in waste areas. ...
The alien flora of Montenegro is enlarged by 5 new species: Coreopsis tinctoria, Ipomoea indica, Lupinus × regalis, Physalis angulata, and Solidago canadensis. All species are grown as ornamentals, and thus horticulture is considered the most possible pathway for their introduction. Nevertheless, in the case of Physalis angulata, the occurrence might have originated in the remains of picnic meals. In order to define the alien status of these species, monitoring is needed, and thus we propose including the species on the National List of Indicators in environmental protection. Special attention should be paid to the species with invasive potentials: Solidago canadensis, Ipomoea indica and Physalis angulata.
... Introducida en cultivo en diversas partes del globo, se ha naturalizado en Croacia, Portugal, España, Francia, Italia, y otros países europeos de la región Mediterránea, Macaronesia (Islas Canarias), India, Chile, Australia y Nueva Zelanda. En estos dos últimos países y en algunas zonas de España se considera maleza e invasora (Hansen & Sunding, 1993;Castro & Muñoz-Schick, 2006;Romero Buján, 2007;Pyke, 2008;Milović et al., 2010;Pérez Ábalos, 2010;AFPD, 2012;Randall, 2012). Se combate por medios tanto mecánicos como químicos (Newton, 1996;Bergin, 2006). ...
... Ambos tipos de ejes constituyen un mecanismo de expansión frecuente en las trepadoras que, sumado a su rápido crecimiento, posibilita su naturalización y constituye su mayor potencialidad como invasora (Hurrell et al., 2011(Hurrell et al., , 2012aDelucchi et al., 2014). Milović et al. (2010) indicaron la expansión de S. angulatus mediante ejes rastreros. González Costales (2007) señaló su propagación por fragmentación de ejes trepadores escindidos de la planta madre, que arraigan con facilidad, constituyendo un mecanismo eficaz en zonas donde la producción de semillas viables es escasa y, por ende, su expansión por la vía reproductiva es limitada. ...
In this contribution the climbing species Senecio angulatus L. f. is reported as cultivated and naturalized for the first time in Argentina. Its illustration, synonymy, description, distribution and phenology, vernacular names, uses, reference materials, and a discussion about its biological type and naturalization, are included. Also, a key to differentiate S. angulatus from similar climbers: Delairea odorata Lem. (= Senecio mikanioides Otto ex Walp.), Senecio macroglossus DC., and S. tamoides DC., is presented. This first record of S. angulatus in Argentina is of interest since it helps to understand its naturalization process, taking into account that it has been indicated as a weed or invasive plant in other countries.
... It is locally naturalized in several European countries (Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine and the European part of Russia), (DAISIE, 2008). It was recently found in Croatia in the city of Zadar (Milović et al., 2010). ...
During field investigations from spring 1998 to the end of 2014 mostly in the southern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, eighteen new neophytes for the flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina were found: Ammi visnaga (L.) Lam., Bromus catharticus Vahl., Buddleja davidii Franch., Catalpa bignonioides Walter., Cleome spinosa Jacq., Commelina communis L., Digitalis purpurea L., Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Focke., Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass., Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier & Levier., Impatiens balsamina L., Mirabilis jalapa L., Oenothera erythrosepala Borbás., Opuntia vulgaris Mill., Oxalis articulata Savigny., Paspalum dilatatum Poiret in Lam., Pueraria lobata (Willdenow) Ohwi. and Senecio inaequidens DC.
The paper presents a short morphological description of the species based on the collected specimens and diverse literature sources, as well as the distribution of the taxon.
Key words: flora, new neophytes, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
... Furthermore, a new module of the Flora Croatica Database (FCD)-Allochtonous (alien, non-native) plants was designed exclusively for monitoring, data collecting and data dissemination [16]. Thus, information for invasive alien plants in different regions of Croatia is gradually accumulating in the literature [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and in six national herbarium collections (ADRZ, CNHM, MAKAR, NHMR, ZA, ZAHO) registered in the Index Herbariorum [34]. So far, there are only a few publications concerning the distributional properties and habitat preferences using small-scale surveys [35][36][37]. ...
... Nevertheless, the importance of the information on the first appearance of species from the invasive plants list in a particular country [57,58], the quality of such information for Croatia varies considerably. In some cases, the exact date of the species introduction in Croatia, how and where it was transferred, when it was first spotted outside of the place of introduction, etc., was known [33]. In many cases, unfortunately, there was no such data, which greatly hindered or prevented the understanding of the process of invasion [59]. ...
... With this rough current estimation, new non-native taxa are described relatively frequently, e.g. Milović et al. [33] cited 16 new neophytes recorded in only 4 years. Therefore, the current list of invasive species is under continuous revision. ...
The Balkan Peninsula is recognized as an important centre of plant diversity. Despite the fact that Croatia contains more than 50% of all Balkan species of vascular flora, the knowledge of the spatial distribution, α-diversity and relation to the conservation efforts have never been summarized and presented. A spatial analysis was performed on several data-sets containing a number of records and a number of species per grid cell. Results show that the Croatian flora consists of 4507 species and 1159 subspecies. The residuals around the linear regression used as a measure of the species richness indicate that Croatia had the highest residual value among the 40 European countries sampled and highest stress on the biodiversity value of the Apennine, the Iberian and the Balkan peninsulas. On the basis of half a million findings and their spatial distributions, we observed that within one grid cell (35 km2) 542 species could be expected. A number of records based on the herbarium specimens, literature and field observation and related spatial distribution were discussed. The spatial distribution of α-diversity indicates that the national hot spots were more consistent with the important plant areas network than with the network of officially protected areas.
... S. mikanioides is registered on the area of Ćunski on the island of Mali Lošinj (Melzer, 1996) and in the city of Zadar (Perinčić, 2010). S. angulatus is found as a casual plant in Zadar (Milović et al., 2010) and in several localities on the islands of the Zadar archipelago: Rava , Ist (Milović & Pandža, 2010), Gangaro, Dugi otok (the settlements of Božava, Verunić and Veli rat) and Pašman (Nikolić, 2014). ...
Senecio inaequidens DC. (Asteraceae) is a neophyte of South African origin, accidentally introduced in wool exports to Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Since the 1970s it has spread rapidly in Central, West and South Europe. After the recently published finding in Hrvatsko Zagorje (Sv. Križ Začretje), two new sites from Dalmatia (Dicmo and Biograd) are presented in this paper. Because of the appropriate climate and a large number of suitable habitats, we can expect that S. inaequidens will become naturalized and will expand in Croatia.
... Furthermore, a new module of the Flora Croatica Database (FCD)-Allochtonous (alien, non-native) plants was designed exclusively for monitoring, data collecting and data dissemination [16]. Thus, information for invasive alien plants in different regions of Croatia is gradually accumulating in the literature [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and in six national herbarium collections (ADRZ, CNHM, MAKAR, NHMR, ZA, ZAHO) registered in the Index Herbariorum [34]. So far, there are only a few publications concerning the distributional properties and habitat preferences using small-scale surveys [35][36][37]. ...
... Nevertheless, the importance of the information on the first appearance of species from the invasive plants list in a particular country [57,58], the quality of such information for Croatia varies considerably. In some cases, the exact date of the species introduction in Croatia, how and where it was transferred, when it was first spotted outside of the place of introduction, etc., was known [33]. In many cases, unfortunately, there was no such data, which greatly hindered or prevented the understanding of the process of invasion [59]. ...
... With this rough current estimation, new non-native taxa are described relatively frequently, e.g. Milović et al. [33] cited 16 new neophytes recorded in only 4 years. Therefore, the current list of invasive species is under continuous revision. ...
During the analysis of alien and invasive flora of Europe, as a threat to biodiversity, data for Croatia were missing. The aim of our research was to analyse distributional patterns and range size of all invasive alien plants (64) for the state area (57,000km(2)). They were detected on 49% of the state territory, averaging five taxa per 35km(2). The greatest number of invasive plants (>30 per grid cell) was recorded in the major urban centres, increasing in the south-east direction and reflecting positive correlation with temperature and negative with altitude. The most endangered areas are in the Mediterranean region, especially on islands. The number of invasive plants increased with habitat diversity and almost 75% of all sites with invasive plants are located within a few habitats with direct anthropogenic influence. The results should provide a reliable regional and global basis for strategic planning regarding invasive alien plants management.
