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Species identification within the species complex
of Q. pubescens is a well-known taxonomic challenge
among European botanists. Some of the specific
pubescent oak binomials currently accepted in various
European floras and checklistswere originally described
in Sicily and southern Calabria. As a consequence,
several species belonging to the pubescent oaks group
(Q. pubescens, Q. amplifolia, Q. congesta,
Q. dalechampii, Q. leptobalana and Q. virgiliana) are
reported in the taxonomic and phytosociological literature.

Edraianthus (Candolle 1830: 130) Candolle (1839: 149) (Campanulaceae Juss.) is a genus of 10–14 species with a centre of
distribution in the Balkans, while disjunctions occur in the central and southern Apennines (peninsular Italy), Sicily, and the
southern Carpathians (Stefanović et al. 2008).
Four species complexes were recognized by Stefanović et al. (2008) and Surina et al. (2009), i.e. “E. tenuifoliuscomplex”,
“E. pumilio-complex”, “E. serpyllifolius-complex”, and “E. graminifolius-complex”. The same authors (Stefanović

Melittio-Quercion frainetto and Melittio-Quercion confertae are two alliances, which were proposed
about simultaneously 40 years ago through two different papers regarding southern Italy and southern
Greece, respectively. The aims of this paper are to establish valid name, nomenclatural type and distribution
range of these two alliances and to verify whether they display a sufficient degree of syntaxonomic
autonomy when compared to the ecologically and geographically neighbouring alliances. A

The census of the loci classici of 1,227 native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy is here presented and described. The effective place of publication of accepted names, basionyms and homotypic synonyms were identified and critically verified. The geographic information on the loci classici was excerpted from the protologues, as well as information on typification for the taxa described before 1 January 1958. The names without a holotype are 1,165.

Research into bone marrow adiposity (BMA) has expanded greatly since the late 1990s, leading to development of new methods for the study of bone marrow adipocytes. Simultaneously, research fields interested in BMA have diversified substantially. This increasing interest is revealing fundamental new knowledge of BMA; however, it has also led to a highly variable nomenclature that makes it difficult to interpret and compare results from different studies. A consensus on BMA nomenclature has therefore become indispensable.