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Some light shed on stenoendemic Galium transcarpaticum (Rubiaceae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians

2026/05/29 by Andriy Novikov, Viktor Nachychko, Олександр Зіненко · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Botany and Plant Ecology Studies #Bryophyte Studies and Records #Plant Diversity and Evolution

paper · pdf · doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e201287

openalex publication_date 2026/05/29 · openalex created_date 2026/05/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

Galium transcarpaticum was described in 1979 as a stenoendemic occurring exclusively in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Since then, little has been contributed to its taxonomy and distribution, and only a few specimens have been collected. We successfully isolated DNA and amplified nuclear ( ITS ) and plastid ( trn H- psb A, atp B- rbc L, trn L (c-d), and trn L (e-f)) markers from G. transcarpaticum isotype specimens deposited at the LWS herbarium. The obtained results do not allow delimiting G. transcarpaticum as an independent species, but rather place it within G. mollugo . Hence, the new combination Galium mollugo subsp. transcarpaticum (Stojko & Tasenk.) A.V.Novikov, Nachychko & Zinenko.

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