Exploration and collecting expedition on the Cheradi islands (southern Italy), 2004
2005
Laghetti, G. (Istituto di Genetica Vegetale, Bari (Italy)) | Sonnante, G. | Cifarelli, S. | Hammer, K.
In the spring of 2004, a collecting mission to the Cheradi islands (southern Italy) was carried out within an exploration cycle aimed at safeguarding autochthonous crop genetic resources still present in Italian minor islands. Nowadays, autochthonous vegetation of Cheradi is scarce because the large cultivated fields of the recent past have been abandoned. In this first and preliminary expedition, 34 taxa were found and classified belonging to 16 botanical families (e.g. Vicia ervilia, Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima, wild Daucus carota). Five populations of Cynara cardunculus var. sylvestris were also sampled and collected. Some small areas on the Cheradi islands still currently represent, botanically, very interesting places, well protected from human intervention that would merit more in-depth study
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