Two new alien fern taxa for Madeira Island (Portugal)

2020/01/01 by João Pedro Ferreira, Laura Mariana Gouveia Cabral, André Brazão +2 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Botany and Plant Ecology Studies #Fern and Epiphyte Biology #Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna

paper · pdf · doi:10.25145/j.si.2020.03.09

openalex publication_date 2020/01/01 · openalex created_date 2020/10/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

The Madeira archipelago vascular flora includes 74 pteridophyte taxa. Of these, eight are exclusive endemics, eight are Macaronesian endemics, being the vast majority, 44, native and 14 referred as introduced taxa. The total number of alien vascular plant taxa is 401 (i.e. 33% of the total flora). The recent detection of several fully naturalized alien fern taxa is a process parallel to that observed in other groups of vascular plants. The occurrence of Pteris nipponica W.C. Shieh (syn. Pteris cretica L. var. albolineata Hooker) and Goniophlebium subauriculatum (Blume) C. Presl as new naturalized plants is recorded for the first time for the island of Madeira.

Citations

• Alien plants in checklists and floras: towards better communication between taxonomists and ecologists

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