A survey of the oreophytic species of Taraxacum in the Carpathians reveals a very limited overlap with the flora of the Alps

0583401 - BÚ 2024 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Štěpánek, Jan - Kirschner, Jan - Uhlemann, I.
A survey of the oreophytic species of Taraxacum in the Carpathians reveals a very limited overlap with the flora of the Alps.
Preslia. Roč. 95, č. 4 (2023), s. 475-591. ISSN 0032-7786. E-ISSN 0032-7786
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : Taraxacum * taxonomy * Carpathians
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany
Impact factor: 3.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2023.475

The genus Taraxacum in the subalpine and alpine areas in the Carpathians (Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, montane habitats in Czechia) is revised using newly collected material and old herbarium collections. Four Taraxacum sections are recognized, viz. T. sect. Crocea (= T. sect. Fontana), T. sect. Alpina, T. sect. Rhodocarpa (= T. sect. Alpestria) and a newly described T. sect. Oreodoxa Štěpánek et Kirschner, a peculiar monotypic taxon with a single species, T. incredibile, confined to limestone ranges in northern Romania. There are 16 species in Slovakia, 7 in Poland, 5 in Ukraine and 11 in Romania, out of the 25 species adopted after the revision, 10 are newly described and 14 occur only in a single country.
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