Celtis caucasica Willd.

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2024, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 17, Willdenowia 54 (1), pp. 5-45 : 12

Celtis caucasica Willd.

(≡ C. australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. )

A Uk: Ukraine: Odesa Oblast, Odesa city, 46.444784°N, 30.764291°E, 46 m, along fence outside Botanical Garden of I. I. Mechnikov Odesa National University, several young plants, 16 Sep 2022, Shynder & Levchuk (KWHA 102515; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org /observations/151467932); Odesa city, 46.44079°N, 30.76807°E, Botanical Garden of I. I. Mechnikov Odesa National University, spontaneously in undergrowth in arboretum, 17 Sep 2022, Shynder & Levchuk (KWHA 102507; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations /151643748); Zakarpattia Oblast, Uzhhorod city, 48.618504°N, 22.305502°E, in anthropogenic habitats, between Botanical Garden of Uzhhorod National University and Uzhhorod children railway, 5 Sep 2022, Shynder (KW s.n.; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations /151284173); ibid., 16 Sep 2022, Shevera; ibid, 4 Jun 2023, Shynder (KWHA 103178; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178956564); Kyiv City, M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, spontaneous generative reproduction, 16 Aug 2023, Shynder (KWHA 103171; photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations /178701241).

– Celtis caucasica is a tree native to the S Balkans, Caucasus, SW & C Asia to W Himalaya ( Grudzinskaya 1979; Tutin 1993). There was information that C. caucasica was possibly autochthonous in Crimea, but this data has not yet been confirmed ( Yena 2012). In Ukraine, C. caucasica is occasionally cultivated, mainly in the S region and Crimea. Currently this species has the status of a casual alien, escaped from cultivation.

O. Shynder, L. Levchuk & M. Shevera