Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz.

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Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz. – Fig. 3.

A Uk: Ukraine: Zakarpattia Oblast, Mukachevo Raion, NW outskirts of Berezynka village, in Fagus forest near the Berezynka Arboretum, 48.418451°N, 22.785902°E, 173 m, single spontaneous 3-year-old sapling, 2 May 2024, Shynder & Shevera (KWHA 104917). – This is the first record of the taxon from Ukraine outside of cultivation. It is native to E Asia ( China, Korea, Japan, Russian Far East) and is only cultivated in temperate Europe and North America ( Poletiko 1960; GBIF 2024f). In Ukraine, it is rarely cultivated in some botanical gardens and parks; single trees were reported in the regions of Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv City, Lviv, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, and in Crimea, but cultivation was not always successful ( Poletiko 1960; Kokhno & Trofymenko 2005; Melnyk & al. 2011). Recently, self-seeding was recorded near adult plants of K. septemlobus in the botanical garden of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences in Kyiv City ( Kolesnichenko & al. 2010). Zakarpattia Oblast is a region with a warm and humid climate, which is favourable for this species, but there are no published or other data on its cultivation in that region ( Fodor 1974; Kokhno & Trofymenko 2005). However, we were able to find out that K. septemlobus has been cultivated for more than 20 years in the Berezynka Arboretum in the vicinity of Mukachevo. The spontaneous spread into the nearby Fagus forest suggests that the species is in the initial stage of naturalization. Currently it is a casual escape from cultivation (ergasiophygophyte sec. Ponert 1977) in the flora of Ukraine. O. Shynder & M. Shevera