Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa (Willd.) Franco & Rocha Afonso

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2024, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 17, Willdenowia 54 (1), pp. 5-45 : 25-26

Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa (Willd.) Franco & Rocha Afonso

(≡ F. oxycarpa Willd. )

A Uk: Ukraine: Kirovohrad Oblast, Kropyvnytskyi city, near Kovalivsky Park, 48.517684°N, 32.261230°E, young plants in cracks of pavement, 22 Jul 2023, Shynder (photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations /181019035); Kyiv City, 50.40998°N, 30.56021°E, M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, Caucasus and Crimea plots, in plantations and spontaneously, 19 Sep 2022, Shynder (photo: https://www.inaturalist.org /observations/135759608); Mykolaiv Oblast, Voznesensk Raion, 47.565823°N, 31.85712°E, sporadically on side of highway, spontaneous offspring in roadside plantings, 9 Oct 2022, Shynder (obs.); Odesa Oblast, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, W vicinity of Mayaky village, 46.4185°N, 30.175°E, along highway, a spontaneously established young tree, 20 Jun 2019, Shynder (KWHA 102712); ibid., 46.437651°N, 30.191667°E, young self-sown tree, 23 Sep 2022, Shynder (KW s.n.); ibid., 46.418578°N, 30.175048°E, 24 Sep 2022, Shynder (KWHA 102489); ibid., 46.411699°N, 30.166699°E, group of trees along edge of reed swamp, 24 Sep 2022, Shynder (KWHA 102490); Odesa city, near Sport Palace, 46.446450°N, 30.758812°E, young tree weedy among Juniperus sabina L. plantation, 16 Sep 2022, Shynder (obs.); Odesa city, 46.445978°N, 30.763767°E, Botanical Garden of I. I. Mechnykov Odesa National University, new territory, mature tree in plantations with spontaneous offspring, 16 Sep 2022, Shynder & Levchuk (KW s.n.; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org /observations/150573368, https://www.inaturalist.org /observations/150573365); Odesa city, 46.384336°N, 30.749836°E, on slope above seashore, mature planted trees with scattered young spontaneous offspring, 24 Sep 2022, Shynder (KW s.n.; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181061258); Vinnytsia Oblast, Bershad city, 48.360249°N, 29.523069°E, between slabs along embankment near park, dense self-sown seedlings, 14 Aug 2023, Shynder (KWHA 103173); Zakarpattia Oblast, Berehove city, spontaneous growth in old cemetery, 29 Aug 2022, Shynder & Shevera (KW s.n.); ibid., Berehove, 48.211269°N, 22.657157°E, spontaneous growth on side of road near old estate, 29 Aug 2022, Shynder & Shevera (KW s.n.).

– The native range of this tree is submediterranean, including S Crimea. However, this taxon is listed as indigenous also for the continental part of Ukraine ( Raab-Straube 2022 +), based on Prokudin (1987), where exact original data are missing. Therefore, we checked the existing information and found no original data on the natural occurrence of Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa in the continental part of Ukraine – this taxon is either not mentioned at all, or indicated only as a cultivated plant, or general statements are given that cannot be verified. Our indications are the first specifying the status of this subspecies as a casual alien in the continental part of Ukraine, where is has escaped from cultivation in several places given above.

O. Shynder, M. Levchuk & M. Shevera