Verbesina encelioides (Cav.)

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Verbesina encelioides (Cav.)

Benth. & Hook. f. ex A. Gray

(≡ Ximenesia encelioides

Cav.) – Fig. 7.

A Cm: Crimea: Krasnopere-

kopsky Rayon, Ishun’, on a pile of soil close to an irrigation canal, 11 Oct 2009, Shum

(CSAU); ibid., Dzhankoy,

abandoned park, 26 Sep 2009,

Strelchuk (CSAU); ibid., Feodosiya, roadside ditch, 3 Nov

2010, Kirilenko (CSAU);

ibid., Simferopol, Maly Salgir riverside close to Ler-

montova Str., 23 Oct 2012,

Belokopytova (CSAU); ibid., Fig. 6. Dittrichia viscosa subsp. viscosa – A : habit and habitat; B: upper part of shoot of vegeta- Gagarina Str. close to bridge tive plant. – Crimea, Sevastopol region, Laspi , 5 Jul 2017 ( A), 27 May 2016 ( B), photographs over Salgir River, plot with by L . E. Ryff .

ruderal vegetation, 16 Nov

2023, Yena ( CSAU); ibid., considered a weed, often noted as invasive, the species Gagarina Str. 14a, along kerb of pavement, 8 Oct 2024, does not yet penetrate natural or anthropogenic habitats Yena ( CSAU). – Not previously reported outside cultivabeyond the seashore in Laspi Bay . tion in Crimea. Verbesina encelioides is an annual herb

L. E. Ryff, A. Levon & O. Shynder native to Mexico and the SW United States ( Torrey &

Gray 1969). Today it is widespread and invasive world- Hieracium marmoreum Pančić & Vis. wide ( Jain & al. 2008). In the Old World, V. encelioides + Gr : Greece: W Makedonia, Nomos and Eparchia of prefers open, ruderal habitats in abandoned areas, along Florina, SW of Antartiko on road to Lake Mikri Pre- roadsides and riverbanks. The ornamental plant is widely spa, 40°45'N, 21°11'E, 1100 m, road embankment in cultivated throughout the Euro+Med region, but its disdeciduous oak forest, 11 Oct 2024, Strid 62339 (herb. tribution as a casual or established alien is documented Gottschlich 84945, UPA, det. G. Gottschlich). – New rather incompletely. Fifteen years ago, V. encelioides was to Greece, the species was described from Mt Vukan, E reported from France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Serbia (see Clementi & al. 2015: 33–34, fig. 4; Visiani Israel and Jordan ( Greuter & Raab-Straube 2008). Cur- & Pančić 1865: 468) and is known to occur also in SW rently it is additionally given from Portugal, all coun- Bulgaria ( Assyov & al. 2012: 225). Three infraspecific tries of N and W Europe except Iceland, Ireland and taxa are traditionally distinguished, optionally accepted the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Tuniat subspecific rank ( Zahn 1921: 598; Josifović 1975: sia and Libya in N Africa ( Greuter 2006 +; Mahklouf & 431; Greuter 2008: 379) as subsp. marmoreum , subsp. Abuhadra 2020; Sayari & al. 2016; GBIF 2023d). There pavlovicii Nägeli & Peter and subsp. reticulatum Nägeli are sporadic findings of the species in Belarus (Mialik & Peter, reduced to varietal rank by Hayek (1931: 994– 2018) and the Russian Federation, namely in Udmurtia 995). The Greek population matches the type: involucre ( Baranova & al. 2019), Southern European Russia and basally with stellate hairs, apically glabrescent. Northern Caucasus ( Dudov & Seregin 2024). Lately,

G. Gottschlich & A. Strid growing this plant has become popular in Crimea, and single individuals escaped from cultivation appear here Sonchus tenerrimus L. and there. Meanwhile, the status of the species in the + Al: Albania: Prefecture of Shkodër, Municipality of Crimean ruderal flora as a casual alien has not changed Velipojë, Velipojë seafront 41°51'42"N, 19°25'41"E, 1 m, during 15 years. The European and Mediterranean Plant not uncommon in ruderal places, also as a weed in flower Protection Organization placed V. encelioides on the obbeds, 22 Oct 2024, Raus 35175 ( B). – There are no pre- servation list because available information is too scarce viously published records from Albania. The species is to count it among the worst threats ( Brunel & al. 2010). widespread in coastal habitats around the Mediterranean A. V. Yena