Information about a locality of Cephalaria gigantea, a new for Ukraine alien species, is provided. It was found in the Podillya Botanical Garden, Vinnytsia city, in July 2016 during surveys of the spontaneous flora and vegetation of the garden and park landscapes of the Middle Pobuzhzhia area. The territory of the garden is currently rather neglected. We assume that the plant material for introduction of C. gigantea was probably collected during an expedition of the botanical garden staff to the Caucasus in the 1970s. The introduced species was cultivated in the collection of medicinal plants, which was abandoned in the late 1980s. The population of C. gigantea was found at a distance of more than 300 m from the former collection site at the forest edge, in the part of the botanical garden distant from the main recreational paths. Taking into account that this species is mentioned as alien for several countries of Europe, monitoring of its further dispersal in Ukraine, particularly of its cultivation sites, is recommended.

Keywords: alien species, Cephalaria gigantea, ergasiophyte, floristic record, naturalization, Ukraine

Full text: PDF (Ukr) 2.08M

1. Bobrov E.H. 1932. Botanicheskiy zhurnal SSSR, 17(5–6): 483–505.
2. Bobrov E.H. 1957. Dipsacaceae. In: Flora SSSR (Flora URSS). Eds B.K. Shyshkin, Y.G. Bobrov. Moscow; Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, vol. 24, pp. 13–93.
3. Burda R.I., Prykhodko S.A., Kuzemko A.A., Bagrykova N.O. 2014. Kodeks povedinky botanichnykh sadiv ta dendroparkiv Ukrainy shchodo invaziynykh chuzhoridnykh vydiv. Kyiv; Donetsk, 20 pp.
4. CABI. 2019. Cephalaria gigantean. In: Invasive Species Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. Available at: https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/113099 (accessed 22 March 2019).
5. Domina G. 2017. Dipsacaceae. In: Euro+Med (2006–): Euro+Med PlantBase — the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Available at: http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetailOccurrence.asp?NameId=19362&PTRefFk=7500000 (Accessed 22 March 2019).
6. DAISIE. 2019. Cephalaria giganteum. In: European Invasive Alien Species Gateway. Available at: http://www.europe-aliens.org/speciesFactsheet.do?speciesId=24273# (Accessed 22 March 2019).
7. Gederaas L., Moen T.L., Skjelseth S., Larsen L.K. 2012. Alien species in Norway – with the Norwegian Black List. Trondheim: The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre, 214 pp.
8. Göktürk R.S., Sümbül H. 2014. A taxonomic revision of the genus Cephalaria (Caprifoliaceae) in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Botany, 38(5): 927–968. https://doi.org/10.3906/bot-1310-6
9. Güneş F., Özhatay N. 2011. An ethnobotanical study from Kars (Eastern) Turkey. Biological Diversity and Conservation, 4: 30–41.
10. Kataloh dekoratyvnykh trav'yanystykh roslyn botanichnykh sadiv i dendroparkiv Ukrainy: Dovidnykovyi posibnyk. 2015. Ed. S.P. Mashkovska. Kyiv, 282 pp. (e-edition). Available at: http://www.nbg.kiev.ua/upload/biblio/katalog.pdf.
11. Maevskiy P.F. 2014. Flora sredney polosy evropeyskoy chasti Rossii. 11^th ed. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, 635 pp.
12. Mayorov S.R., Vinogradova Yu.K. 2013. Vestnik Udmurtskogo universiteta, 2: 12–16.
13. McNeely J.A., Mooney H.A., Neville L.E., Schei P.J., Waage J.K. 2001. Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 50 pp.
14. Medvecká J., Kliment J., Májeková J., Halada Ľ., Zaliberová M., Gojdičová E., Feráková V., Jarolímek I. 2012. Inventory of the alien flora of Slovakia. Preslia, 84: 257–309.
15. Ostapko V.M. 2009. Cephalaria litvinovii. In: Chervona knyha Ukrainy. Roslynnyi svit (Red Data Book of Ukraine. Plant Kingdom). Ed. Ya.P. Didukh. Kyiv: Globalconsulting, 420 pp.
16. Protopopova V.V., Shevera M.V. 2014. Ergasiophytes of the Ukrainian Flora. Biodiversity Research and Conservation, 35: 31–46. https://doi.org/10.2478/biorc-2014-0018
17. Pyšek P., Danihelka J., Sádlo J., Chrtek J.Jr., Chytrý M., Jarošík V., Kaplan Z., Krahulec F., Moravcová L., Pergl J., Štajerová K., Tichý L. 2012. Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic (2^nd edition): checklist update, taxonomic diversity and invasion patterns. Preslia, 84: 155–255.
18. Reveal J.L. 2012. An outline of a classification scheme for extant flowering plant. Phytoneuron, 2012-37: 1–221.
19. Schmalhausen I.F. 1886. Flora of South-Western Russia, or Governorates of Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Poltava, Chernigov, and adjacent territories. Kiev: O.V. Kulzhenko Publ., xlviii + 783 pp.
20. Wallnöfer B., Strudl M., Pokorny M. 2015. Über fremdländische Arten von Cephalaria (Dipsacaceae), Gilia (Polemoniaceae), Ornithopus (Fabaceae) und Trachystemon (Boraginaceae) in Österreich. Stapfia, 103: 151–159.