Polycnemum arvense, Haussknecht, 1885

Raus, Thomas, 2022, Taxonomic, nomenclatural and floristic review of Amaranthaceae of Greece and neighbouring countries, Willdenowia 52 (3), pp. 335-357 : 348

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.52.52304
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F26687CE-217C-FFA3-FC86-FA20664D7D61
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scientific name	Polycnemum arvense
status

Treatment

26. Polycnemum arvense View in CoL L., Sp. Pl.: 35. 1753. – Lectotype (designated by Hedge in Jarvis & al. 1993: 78): Herb. Linn. No. 55.2 ( LINN).

= Polycnemum arvense var. minus Döll, Rhein. Fl. : 287. 1843 ≡ Polycnemum minus (Döll) Kitt., Taschenb. Fl. Deutschl. , ed. 3: 327. 1853 ≡ Polycnemum arvense subsp. minus (Döll) Čelak., Prodr. Fl. Böhm. 2: 156. 1871. – Type: not designated.

Remarks — The species is native to temperate and Mediterranean Europe and W Asia, found in all countries of the S Balkan peninsula ( Iamonico 2015a) and in mainland Greece very scattered N of the Gulf of Korinthos (Ipiros, Thessalia, Makedonia) and on some larger Aegean islands (Evvia, Thasos, Samothraki). A previous record from the Ionian islands (Kerkyra, see Jalas & Suominen 1980: map 479) was already doubted by Tan (1997) and has not been confirmed ( Flora Ionica Working Group 2016 +). As an autumnal, easily overlooked species of mostly seminatural habitats, it is probably more widespread than the present data indicate.