Scientific Papers Series B Horticulture

Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture. Vol. LVII, 2013Print ISSN 2285-5653, CD-ROM ISSN 2285-5661, Online ISSN 2286-1580, ISSN-L 2285-5653THE CHOROLOGY OF ARTEMISIA ALBA TURRA,A. LERCHIANA WEBER AND A. TSCHERNIEVIANA BESSER(ASTERACEAE) IN ROMANIAAbstractMonica BADEA, Ioana PDURE, Sorin TEFNU, Aurelia DOBRESCU,Liliana BDULESCUUniversity of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest,59 Mrti Blvd., District 1, 011464, Bucharest, RomaniaCorresponding author email: monalisa588@yahoo.comThe paper presents chorological data concerning Artemisia alba Turra, Artemisia lerchiana Weber, and Artemisiatschernieviana Besser (Asteraceae) in Romania. These species of Artemisia are considered rare in Romania.Chorological data regarding Artemisia alba, A. lerchiana and A. tscherneviana distributions are presented usingbibliographical information, data from different Herbaria of Romania and original data collected from fieldwork. Anoriginal chorological map using GEOCOD coordinates is presented for the first time.Key words: Asteraceae, Artemisia species, chorology, distribution map, GEOCOD coordinates, Romania.INTRODUCTIONGenus Artemisia L. is one of the largest andmost widespread types of the nearly 100 generathat make up the family Asteraceae. It isconsidered that the genus includes about 500species worldwide, of which 15 species areannual or biennial. Several members of thegenus can be found as endemic species,introduced by man or, as is the case in SouthAmerica and South Africa, appear as invasivespecies. Artemisia species are perennial, rarelyannual or biennial (Bremer, 1994; Vallès andMcArthur, 2001).In 'Flora Europaea' Artemisia genus contains 57species, and the Illustrated Flora of Romania itis mentioned the presence of 16 species(Ciocârlan, 2009), five of which are consideredrare. In Romania there are few studies on rarespecies of the genus Artemisia (Badea, 2011).Holobiuc and Blidu (2007) and Dihoru andNegrean (2003) realised a distribution maps ofsome rare species usingUniversal TransverseMercator (UTM) system.Artemisia lerchiana species was cited by Borza(1947) as being present in Dobrogea andMoldova. Concerning A. tschernieviana species(syn. A. arenaria) Borza (1947) cites thepresence in Moldova and Dobrogea (FRE2294) also mentioned that the dunes raremarine species from the Black Sea, Constantato Mamaia from Tannery (Prodan, 1925).The main objective of the present study is toadd new and original chorological points and todocument the geographic distribution of the A.alba, A. lerchiana, A. tshernieviana species inRomania using GEOCOD system.MATERIALS AND METHODSThe chorological distribution of the speciesusing UTM coordinates is expressed in Figures4, 5 and 6. Descriptions and details ofdistribution of Artemisia are based oncollections from Herbaria: BUAG-Herbaria ofU.S.A.M.V. Bucharest, BUC-Herbaria ofUniversity of Bucharest, BUCA-Herbaria ofInstitute of Biology Bucharest, CL-Herbaria ofUniversity “Babes-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca,CRA-Herbaria of University of Craiova, I-Herbaria of University “Al. I. Cuza” Iasi(according codes with Index Herbariorum, N.H. Holmgren). The chorological map ofArtemisia alba, A. lerchiana, A. tschernievianais based on the cited sources above and newpersonal records obtained during research, ordifferent databases / scientific publicationswhere this species was referred. Thechorological maps of Artemisia alba, A.lerchiana and A. tschernieviana included in thiswork were made by taking in account the153