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K A N I T Z I A Kanitzia 18: 89–194., Szombathely, 2011
Journal of Botany
ADDENDA TO “FLORA ROMANIAE” VOLUMES 1-12.
Newly published plants, nomenclature, taxonomy, chorology
and commentaries (Part 1)
GAVRIL NEGREAN
775311-Bucureşti, Bd. I. Maniu 55, Romania; e-mail: negrean_gavril@yahoo.com
Abstract
Negrean G. (2011): Addenda to “Flora Romaniae” Volumes 1-12. Newly published plants,
nomenclature, taxonomy, chorology and commentaries (Part 1). – Kanitzia 18: 89–194.
“Flora României” was completed several years ago. Since the edition of this fundamental work numerous
studies have been concluded and several new species have been published (see BORZA(1963),
BORZA & NYÁRÁDY (1963), BELDIE & VÁCZY (1976), NEGREAN (1987), OPREA (2005), CIOCÂRLAN
(2009) requiring the summation and addition of these new results to the original work. A lot of
botanists, in our country and even from abroad, contributed to the enrichment of the Romanian flora.
Some new taxa, reviewed in this work, are from the spontaneous flora, found in the zones not investigated
before; others belong to the category of newly re-discovered taxa which were not referred to
for a long period. Finally, the majority of these species probably belong to the alien category, many
with invasive character and which threaten the spontaneous flora. In the 13 volumes of “Flora Romaniae”
64 major taxa (species and subspecies) were published (BELDIE & VÁCZY 1976). Later, the
number of published major taxa increased considerably, in our work cca 514 taxa have been listed.
The list includes the taxa names, synonyms, family (abbreviated with three letters) (WEBER 1982),
wide chorology, as well as commentaries where necessary. It summarizes the results of several
decades of my scientific work started and inspired by my high school teacher, Paul Pteancu, the best
assistant of Professor Borza. This work is concluded with an extensive bibliography including more
than 900 paper and website references. As such an enrichment process – desired or not – would never
end, thus we propose to continue to review and update this listing at regular time intervals. As in any
work of this magnitude, it is possible that some omissions inherently exist, for which we do apologize.
Key words: Romanian Flora, taxonomy, chorology, commentaries
Introduction
Romania is relatively rich in plants species. This is due to its global location, at middle
distance between the Equator and the Pole, exactly in the geometrical centre of Europe,
halfway between the chine of Ural mountains and the Finisterra Cape in the continental
Europe, halfway of the influence of the Atlantic and the continental gradients; halfway between
North Cape and Matapan Cape in Greece. As it is known, the mark designating the
geometrical centre of Europe, is East of Sighetul Marmaţiei (Mármarossziget) on the Tisa
river bank and was raised long ago by the Austrian topogra-phers. However, the existence
of the mountains catena, representing the main endemogene zones in our country, considerably
enriches the flora. The historical area of Dobrudja, with the oldest dry land in our
country and even in Europe, is important from a phytogeografic point of view as well. Generally,
in south, especially in “Porţile de Fier” area, as well as in Dobrudja, the Mediter-
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