Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm.

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Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm.

A Uk: Ukraine: Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Kamianets-Podilskyi city, 48.667925°N, 26.582607°E, several plants along LesiaUkrainkastreet, outsidefenceofBotanicalGardenof Kamianets-Podilskyi University, 30 Oct 2022, Lyubinska, Shynder & Kolomiychuk (photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155434377); Odesa Oblast, Odesa city, near Sport Palace, 46.445583°N, 30.759605°E, self-sown offspring near mature trees along street, 17 Sep 2022, Shynder (KW s.n.); Zakarpattia Oblast, Uzhhorod city, between Botanical Garden of Uzhhorod National University (where it is cultivated) and Uzhhorod children railway, 48.619911°N, 22.302777°E, small colony of young generative plants escaped from Botanical Garden, 5 Sep 2022, Shynder (KW s.n.; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151286876); ibid., 16 Aug 2022, Shevera (obs.).

– A tree species of E Asian origin ( POWO 2023). Koelreuteria paniculata is often cultivated in the S and Crimean regions of Ukraine, and in the N and W regions it is grown mainly in plant introduction centres. In places of cultivation in Ukraine it forms vegetative colonies, e.g.: Odesa city, Botanical Garden of I. I. Mecnykov Odesa National University, 16 Sep 2022, Levchuk & Shynder (KWHA 102522); Dnipro city, Botanical Garden of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, 17 Oct 2022, Kabar & Shynder (photo: https://www.inaturalist.org /observations/171521198); Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Kryvyi Rih Botanical Garden, 8 Oct 2022, Shol (KRW s.n.); Zakarpattia Oblast, J. Szikura Botanical Garden of Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, 3 Jun 2023, Shevera & Shynder (UU s.n.); Kyiv City, O. V. Fomin Botanical Garden of Taras Shechenko National University of Kyiv ( Mosyakin & Yavorska 2001; Shynder & al. 2022); Kyiv City, Syretskyi Dendrological Park, 13 Jun 2022, Glukhova & Shynder (KWHA s.n.). Noted for Crimea ( Protopopova & Shevera 2014) as a plant escaped from cultivation. New for the continental part of Ukraine as a casual alien, escaped from cultivation.

O. Shynder, M. Shevera, V. Kolomiychuk, L. Lyubinska, L. Levchuk, A. Kabar, H. Shol & S. Glukhova