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Francesco Maria Raimondo

  • Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 215-218 - MONOGRAPH

    Angelo Troìa, Francesco Maria Raimondo & Werner Greuter
    Lycopodiidae for the “Flora Critica d’Italia”: material and methods
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress “Speciation and Taxonomy”, May 16th-18th 2014, Cefalù-Castelbuono (Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    Procedures are presented that were followed during the preparation of the first pteridophyte family treatments for the “Flora Critica d’Italia”: Lycopodiaceae, Isoetaceae, Selaginellaceae. The work was mainly based on the study of literature and herbarium specimens. In some cases SEM observation of spores has proved useful. Data collected from herbarium specimens and other verified sources were loaded into a database, from which a distribution map was prepared for each taxon. Several preliminary papers have been published, and for each family a taxonomic conspectus, with type designations, maps and an identification key, has been prepared. The treatment of these three families for the “Flora Critica d’Italia” (in Italian) is about to be published or (Isoetaceae) has already been published.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 205-214 - MONOGRAPH

    Emilio Di Gristina, Francesco Maria Raimondo & Pietro Mazzola
    Diversity in the genus Hieracium Linnaeus s. str. (Asteraceae) in Sicily
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress “Speciation and Taxonomy”, May 16th-18th 2014, Cefalù-Castelbuono (Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    The present taxonomic and floristic knowledges on Hieracium L. s. str. in Sicily are commented. In total, 11 taxa occur in this island, 10 of which are endemic and 1 has a wider range. For each of these taxa, biological form, phenology, distribution, ecology, chromosome number, conservation, and taxonomy are taken in consideration. A key to the taxa is also provided.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 193-196 - MONOGRAPH

    Francesco Maria Raimondo & Vivienne Spadaro
    Diversity in the population of Brassica incana Ten. (Cruciferae) in Sicily
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress “Speciation and Taxonomy”, May 16th-18th 2014, Cefalù-Castelbuono (Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    Phenotipic diversity in Sicilian populations of Brassica incana Ten. (Cruciferae) is here analyzed in comparison with the only one known population of B. raimondoi Sciandrello et al., taxonomic close species recently described from the coastal relief of eastern Sicily. The analysis of diagnostic characters of these two taxa does not reveal significant differences that justify a treatment at species level of the population of B. raimondoi. On this base, the authors deemed to include this taxon in the infraspecific variability of B. incana and consider most appropriate the rank of subspecies. Therefore is here proposed the establishment of the trinomial combination B. incana subsp. raimondoi.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 3 (4): 265-266
    Francesco Maria Raimondo
    Preface. Flora and insular diversity