Vivienne Spadaro

• 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.

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• Biodiversity Journal, 3 (4): 337-342

  Gianniantonio Domina, Pasquale Marino, Vivienne Spadaro & Francesco Maria Raimondo
  Vascular flora evolution in the major Mediterranean islands

  ABSTRACT
  Characteristics of Mediterranean island floras are analyzed with stress on endemic units. On these bases the main relationships between the major Mediterranean areas and the inland territories with the strongest floristic affinities are analyzed. Finally the role of aliens in Mediterranean island floras and threats are discussed.

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