https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT/issue/feed 2024-06-24T09:04:10+00:00 Rosario G. Gavilán mbot@ucm.es Open Journal Systems <p><em>Mediterranean Botany</em> (ISSNe&nbsp;2603-9109) publishes original research in the field of Botany, including plant systematics, vegetation ecology, biogeography, evolutionary biology, ecophysiology, community ecology, ethnobotany and conservation biology from Mediterranean biomes and nearby regions.&nbsp;<em>Mediterranean Botany</em> is a GOLD OPEN ACCESS Journal, free of charges for both authors and readers.</p> https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT/article/view/92811 2024-06-24T09:03:13+00:00 Duilio Iamonico d.iamonico@yahoo.it

<p>The typification of the name <em>Atriplex mollis</em>, validly published by R. L. Desfontaines in <em>Flora Atlantica</em>, is discussed. A specimen deposited at G (barcode G00386803) is designated as the lectotype of the name. The distribution in Europe of the species is also discussed. It was indicated for Sardinia only (Italy, Southern Europe) in a single locality (San Paolo pond, Cagliari Province). No specimen that proves the occurrence of the species in Sardinia is in extant. Moreover, the overlapping of a map published in 1912 and the current satellite images, allowed to verify that the area in which <em>A.</em> <em>mollis </em>grew up, including wetlands at the beginning of the XX century, is currently almost totally covered by buildings and commercial/industrial sites. In other words, the habitat where the species occurred was destroyed. As a consequence, at the current state of knowledge, the species is here assessed as extinct (EX) at national level according to the IUCN categories.</p>

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