1. Italian endemics: a focus on vascular flora
Passalacqua N.G., Bartolucci F., Domina G., Galasso G. & Peruzzi L.

2. …starting point from the initiative “Taxa di piante vascolari descritti per l'Italia: censimento, tipificazione ed approfondimenti biosistematici”, also called “Italian Loci Classici Census” Gruppo per la Floristica, Società Botanica Italiana, 2010

3. Working group 35 Researchers (5 Supervisors) 23 Institutions
17 Universities
4 Museums
2 Regional Centers

5. Italian endemics – 2014 starting list
1371 Italian endemics (ca. 18%) including those shared with Corsica and Malta, not considering the subspecies within the critical genera Hieracium and Pilosella.
Since 2005, we had an increase of 343 endemics, mainly due to:
-description of taxa new to science: 226
-taxonomic revisions: 117
Peruzzi et al., 2014
1371
(18%)
7550
Conti et al., 2005
1024
(15%)
6952

6. Orders, Families and Genera
Lycopodiidae: 3
Polypodiidae: 1
Pinidae: 2
Magnoliidae: 1361 (paleoherbs: 3; monocots: 222; dicots: 1139)
303 genera, 67 families and 29 orders

7. Seven genera are endemic to Italy
Rhizobotrya alpina
Castroviejoa frigida
Eokochia saxicola
Morisia monanthos
Nananthea perpusilla
Siculosciadium nebrodense
Petagnaea gussonei

8. Italian endemics at regional level
Regional endemics 14 10 5 22 15 19 5 13 59 13 44 12 20 32 6
181 60
Alpine endemics are often shared by different European countries, so that were not recorded in the database.
263

9. Italian endemics at regional level73 29 10 71 68 52 74 65
189
126
102
226
190
124
137
176
190
319
271
ca. 58% of the taxa (792) are narrow endemic, whose occurrence is restricted to just one region, and more than half of them is restricted to Sardinia and Sicily
402

10. NW Italy: 58 N Italian peninsula: 214 NE Italy: 145
Crocus etruscus
C Italian peninsula: 299
Campanula bertolae
Xerolekia speciosissima
S Italian peninsula: 387
Primula palinuri
Adonis distorta
Sardinia: 319
Sicily: 402
Linaria arcusangeli
Ptilostemon greuteri

11. Year of first descritption for currently accepted Italian endemic taxa
Most “descriptive” years
(> 19 taxa):
2009 (51)
2011 (42)
1827 (32)
1826 (30)
2001 (30)
2006 (26)
2007 (25)
2012 (24)
1904 (22)
2013 (22)
1822 (21)
1843 (21)
1980 (20)
1986 (20)
2010 (20)
Peruzzi et al. 2014b
Year of first descritption for currently accepted Italian endemic taxa
Italian Independence War
First and second World Wars

12. 2013
(1371)
2005
(1155)
1982
(897)
1900
(622)
1810
(69)
1753
(18)

13. The Loci Classici Italian database
Natura 104(1):33-38 (2014)
The Loci Classici Italian database

14. The Loci Classici Italian database

15. The Loci Classici Italian database

16. Loci classici: why?
These localities represent a very important cultural and historical heritage, being places visited, studied or described by relevant personalities in the history of botany and plant biology in general;
For many types of biosystematics studies, living specimens and samples from real populations are required, and specimens in topotypical localities ensure that the results obtained will certainly apply to a certain taxon and will be taxonomically sound.

17. Italian endemics: updating
2014
1371 endemics
2015
1400 endemics
50 new entries
21 removed:
13 not Italian endemics
5 synonyms of other taxa
4 not occurring in Italy
14 name changed
Peruzzi et al. 2015

19. Loci classici - distribution
Brundu et al. (submitted)
Loci classici - distribution
As expected, a large proportion of loci classici are on islands;
We detected a clear negative correlation between the distribution of loci classici and the distance from the coastline, i.e. many locations are located in coastal habitats;
However, a large number of loci classici is concentrated in mountain areas (690 loci are above 1000 m a.s.l.).
966 loci
841 loci

20. Loci classici - conservation
1,185 locations (out of 1,807) are inside protected areas:
347 Sites of Community Importance
329 National Parks
321 Regional / Provincial Nature Parks
Alpi Apuane 106
Gran Sasso e
Monti della Laga 43
621 are located outside protected areas, in many cases very close to protected areas.
Pollino 47

21. Perspectives – continuous updating
2015
1400 endemics
2016
1435 endemics
51 new entries
16 removed:
6 not Italian endemics
10 synonyms of other taxa
16 name changed
Peruzzi et al. 2014, continuously updated

23. Perspectives – Typification of the names

24. Perspectives

25. A number of scientific publications are being stimulated in parallel and after this collective work:

26. Perspectives New checklist of the Italian Flora (2017)
Red List assessment of the Italian endemics (2017)
Deeper biosystematic investigations of selected critical groups (work in progress)
Loci of all taxa described for the Italian territory (?)
Phytogeographical regionalisation of Italy based on comparative endemics distribution (?)

27. Thanks a lot for your kind attention!