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. 2022 Jan 26;11(2):193. doi: 10.3390/biology11020193

Table 1.

List of Italian threatened endemic crop wild relatives, reasons of threatening.

Taxa Endemic to IT IS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. nebrodense Sicily x LC NT
Barbarea rupicola Sardinia x LC LC
Brassica baldensis Veneto x x VU
Brassica glabrescens Friuli-Venezia Giulia x x VU VUF VU NT NT II x
Brassica macrocarpa Sicily x x CR CR CR EN CR CR II * x
Brassica rupestris subsp. hispida Sicily x x NT * EN EN VU
Brassica rupestris subsp. rupestris Calabria, Sicily x x NT * LR LR LC
Brassica tardarae ** Sicily x x VU †
Brassica trichocarpa ** Sicily x x NT CR ‡
Brassica tyrrhena Sardinia x x LC
Brassica villosa subsp. bivonana Siciliy x x NT * LR LR LC
Brassica villosa subsp. brevisiliqua Siciliy x x NT * NT
Brassica villosa subsp. drepanensis Siciliy x x NT * LR VU VU
Brassica villosa subsp. tineoi Siciliy x x NT * VU VU LC
Brassica villosa subsp. villosa Siciliy x x NT * CR CR LC
Daucus broteroi Peninsula x x DD LC
Daucus carota subsp. rupestris Sicily x x LC * EN EN EN
Daucus nebrodensis Sicily x x LC
Diplotaxis scaposa Sicily x x NT
Festuca centroapenninica Appennine x LC
Lathyrus apenninus Appennine x x NT
Lathyrus odoratus Peninsula, Sicily x x NT CR M LR A,L LC
Malus crescimannoi Sicily x x DD NT
Phalaroides arundinacea subsp. rotgesii Sardinia x LC*
Vicia brulloi ** Sicily x x CR §
Vicia consentina Calabria x x NT
Vicia giacominiana Apulia x x CR CR P VU CR ° CR
Vicia ochroleuca subsp. ochroleuca Peninsula, Sicily x x LC
Vicia tenuifolia subsp. elegans Peninsula, Sicily x x VU L NT
Adapted and updated from Landucci et al. [1], Magrini et al. [14], and Perrino and Perrino [6].
** Not reported in previous works [1,6,14].
Endemic to = as reported in “An updated checklist of the Vascular flora native to Italy” [18].
IT = ITPGRFA Annex I: Taxa included in Annex I of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) [17].
IS = ISTAT: Taxa mentioned by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) for cultivated areas and yield between 2019 and 2021 (ISTAT) [26].
1: BILZ ET AL. 2011: Taxa included in the European Red List [27]: DD = Data deficient, LC = Least concern, NT = Near Threatened, VU = Vulnerable, CR = Critically endangered. * The category refers only to the species because Bilz et al. [27] do not report the subspecies.
2–4: CONTI ET AL. 1997: Taxa included in the Italian Regional Red Lists [29]; 2 = Italy, 3 = Sicily, 4: A = Abruzzo, F = Friuli-Venezia Giulia, L = Lazio, M = Molise, P = Apulia, CR = Critically endangered, EN = Endangered, VU = Vulnerable, LR = Lower risk.
5: CONTI ET AL. 1992: Taxa included in the Italian National Red Book [28]: EN = Endangered, VU = Vulnerable.
6: POLICY SPECIES: Taxa included in the Italian Red List of Policy Species [30]: CR = Critically endangered, NT = Near Threatened. ° Non-policy species.
7: ORSENIGO ET AL. 2018: Taxa included in the new Red List of the Italian endemic flora [31]: CR = Critically endangered, EN = Endangered, VU = Vulnerable, NT = Near Threatened, LC = Least concern.
8: ORSENIGO ET AL. 2021: Taxa included in the new Italian National Red List [32]: LC = Least concern.
9: OTHER IUCN CARDS = Category of risk reported in other specifics works: † = [21], ‡ = [19], § = [20]; VU = Vulnerable, CR= Critically endangered.
10: EUROPEAN COMMISSION (1995–2007) = Annex II of the Directive 92/43/EEC; (*) = priority species [34].
11: BERN CONVENTION (Council of Europe, 1979) = Appendix I of Bern Convention [33].