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Croat. 83 (2), 87-91, 2024 CODEN: ABCRA 25 DOI: 10.37427/botcro-2024-020 ISSN 0365-0588 eISSN 1847-8476 Nomenclature of the Balkan alliance Romuleion graecae (Poetea bulbosae) Massimo Terzi1*, Nenad Jasprica2, Andraž Čarni3,4,5, Vlado Matevski4, Erwin Bergmeier6, Jean-Paul Theurillat7,8 1 Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources (IBBR), National Council of Research (CNR), via Amendola 165/A, IT-70126, Bari, Italy 2 University of Dubrovnik, Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, Kneza Damjana Jude 12, HR-20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia 3 Institute of Biology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4 Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Krste Misirkov 2, MK-1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia 5 University of Nova Gorica, School for Viticulture and Enology, Vipavska 13, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia 6 University of Göttingen, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Department of Vegetation Analysis and Plant Diversity, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany 7 Centre Alpien de Phytogéographie, Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Case postale 71, CH-1938 Champex-Lac, Switzerland 8 University of Geneva, Section of Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, Case postale 71, CH-1292 Chambésy, Switzerland Abstract – The Romuleion, the only alliance of the order Poetalia bulbosae (class Poetea bulbosae) found on the Balkan Peninsula, represents Mediterranean perennial and ephemeral pastures. It has been found in several Balkan countries, from Greece to the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bulgaria. However, a revision of its no- menclature according to the fourth edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature shows that the name of the alliance was not validly published. In this paper we therefore describe the new alliance Romuleion graecae, together with the new association Plantagini lagopodis-Poetum bulbosae. Keywords: Balkan vegetation, ICPN, Mediterranean grassland, nomenclature, phytosociology, Poetea bulbosae, syntaxonomy Introduction The class Poetea bulbosae is accepted in the standard European vegetation classification (EVC), as representing the “Mediterranean and Maghrebinian seasonal perennial and ephemeroid pastures in the thermo- to oro-Mediterra- nean belts” (Mucina et al. 2016, EVS 2017, FloraVeg.EU 2023, Terzi et al. 2024). The class includes only one order, Poetalia bulbosae, and six alliances, namely Trifolio-Periballion, Plantaginion serrariae, Poo bulbosae-Astragalion, Ornithogalo corsici- Trifolion subterranei, Plantaginion cupanii, and Romuleion (FloraVeg.EU 2023, Fernández-González et al. 2023, Terzi et al. 2024). The distribution range of most of these alliances is restricted to the western Mediterranean, i.e. the Iberian Peninsula and the Tyrrhenian Islands, and to Italy (i.e. Plantaginion cupanii), while only the alliance Romuleion has been found on the Balkan Peninsula and its islands ( Preislerová et al. 2022). More specifically, the Romuleion has been reported in Greece, the Republic of North Macedonia, Croatia, and Montenegro, while its occurrence is considered uncertain in Albania, Bulgaria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Oberdorfer 1954, de Bolòs et al. 1996, Čarni et al. 2014, Škvorc et al. 2017, Preislerová et al. 2022, Stanišić-Vujačić et al. 2023, Terzi and Jasprica 2024). * Corresponding author e-mail: massimo.terzi@cnr.it TERZI, M., JASPRICA, N., ČARNI, A., MATEVSKI, V., BERGMEIER, E., THEURILLAT, J.-P. 88 ACTA BOT. CROAT. 83 (2), 2024 The Romuleion was originally placed in the class “Thero- -Brachypodietea” (Oberdorfer 1954), and then moved to the Brachypodio-Chrysopogonetea (Horvat et al. 1974), the Saginetea maritimae (Rodwell et al. 2002), and the Tuberarietea guttatae (Čarni et al. 2014). Finally, in the EVC, it has been framed within the Poetea bulbosae (Mucina et al. 2016). Although the Romuleion is the only alliance of the class Poetea bulbosae occurring in the Balkans, with a potentially rather wide distribution, its original description raises some problems from a nomenclatural point of view (see also Čarni et al. 2014). Therefore, the aim of this paper is to revise the nomenclature of the alliance and thus contribute to the stabilisation of the European vegetation system by the use of correct names. Material and methods The revision of the nomenclature of the alliance Romuleion is based on the fourth edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (ICPN, Theurillat et al. 2021), whose articles (Art.) are quoted in brackets in the text. The names of the syntaxa, which are given exactly as in the mentioned articles, are given in quotation marks (" "). In order to assess possible synonymy between some of the names of the associations involved in the validation of the alliance name, Jaccard’s similarity index (J, Kent 2012) was calculated between the phytosociological synoptic tables of some of the associations. The taxonomic nomenclature follows Euro+Med (2006- 2023), while the syntaxonomic nomenclature follows FloraVeg.EU (2023) and its updates as proposed by Fernández- González et al. (2023) and Terzi et al. (2024). To facilitate comparison with the EVC, the names of the syntaxa in the syntaxonomic scheme at the end of the dis- cussion have been supplemented with the codes already as- signed in the EVC (three digits for classes, five for orders and six for alliances). Results and discussion The “Romulion” alliance [recte: Romuleion] was origi- nally described by Oberdorfer (1954) with a diagnosis com- prising two associations. Another, the “Biareto-Poetum timoleontis”, is merely mentioned as provisional (Art. 3b) and is moreover invalid as it lacks a sufficient original diagnosis (Art. 2b). The two substantiated associations, “Tortileto- -Poetum timoleontis” and “Lagopeto-Poetum timoleontis”, are represented by a synoptic table derived from 14 and 17 relevés, respectively, from the surroundings of the city of Thessaloniki, Thessaly, Isthmus of Corinth, Attica, South- ern Macedonia and Thrace (all in Greece). However, this synoptic table contains neither Poa timoleontis Boiss. (Fl. Orient. 5: 607. 1884), nor Poa bulbosa subsp. timoleontis (Boiss.) Hayek (Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 30(3): 260. 1933), but only Poa bulbosa. Consequently, these asso- ciations were not validly published because one of the name-giving taxa is missing in their diagnosis (Art. 3f), although mentioned in the text (Oberdorfer 1954: 89, “…von Poa bulbosa beherrschten Gesellschaften”). Since all asso- ciations assigned to the diagnosis of the alliance in Oberdorfer (1954) are thus invalid, the name Romuleion Oberdorfer 1954 is also invalid for lack of a sufficient diagnosis (Art. 2b). In Horvat et al. (1974: 120-121) the two associations de- scribed by Oberdorfer (1954) within the Romuleion alliance, namely “Tortileto-Poetum timoleontis” and “Lagopeto-Poetum timoleontis”, were united under a single association name, “Poetum timoleontis”, with two subassociations (“Subass. mit Stipa tortilis” and “Subass. mit Plantago lagopus”). How- ever, the diagnosis of the Poetum timoleontis is still based on the same synoptic relevés published by Oberdorfer (1954), where the name-giving taxon Poa timoleontis is missing. Consequently, the names Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer ex Horvat, Glavač et Ellenberg 1974 (Art. 3f) and Romuleion Oberdorfer ex Horvat, Glavač et Ellenberg 1974 (Art. 2b) are still invalid names. Later, Bolòs et al. (1996) renamed the alliance “Romulion graecae Oberd. 1954 em. nom. (Romulion Oberd.)” and as- signed a new association, “Airo elegantissimae-Trifolietum dalmaticae”, from the Ionian island of Cephalonia (Greece). This association was validly published with a sufficient orig- inal diagnosis consisting of seven relevés (Table 12, on page 106). This was not so for the alliance because the name-giv- ing taxon Romulea linaresii subsp. graeca Bég. (Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 38: 325, 1907) was missing in the only valid element of the diagnosis, namely in the relevés of the new association (the two associations of Oberdorfer (1954), which were also referred to, were invalidly published). The name Romuleion graecae Oberdorfer ex de Bolòs, Masalles, Ninot, et Vigo 1996 is therefore invalid under Art. 3f. Čarni et al. (2014) provided a different interpretation on the validity of the names published by Oberdorfer (1954), considering the alliance Romuleion and the two associations “Tortileto-Poetum timoleontis” and “Lagopeto-Poetum timoleontis” as validly published. They argue that the taxon name “Poa bulbosa” given in the table on page 90 ("Liste I") in Oberdorfer (1954) is a printing error for “Poa bulbosa coll.” as written in the two other tables ("Liste II" and "Liste III") of the work on pages 92 and 94, respectively. In their view, “Poa bulbosa coll.” would include all subspecies of Poa bulbosa (or species of the Poa bulbosa aggregate), including Poa timoleontis (Poa bulbosa subsp. timoleontis), and would therefore comply with Art. 3f. The justification of this in- terpretation would be the statement made by Oberdorfer on page 88 that Brachypodium ramosum [recte: B. retusum] or Brachypodium phoenicoides, which are widespread in the western Mediterranean, are completely receding eastwards where they are replaced by various subspecies (“div. ssp.”) of Poa bulbosa. To some extent, such an interpretation might have been supported by the content of Art. 3f in the third edition of the ICPN (Weber et al. 2000), which only states that the name-giving taxon should be "indicated in THE BALKAN ALLIANCE ROMULEION GRAECAE ACTA BOT. CROAT. 83 (2), 2024 89 the original diagnosis". This interpretation is no longer valid with the present rules, as they state (Art. 3f Note 1) that the name-giving taxon must be present in the relevés belonging to the “original diagnoses of the associations that have been quoted in the original diagnosis of the alliance”. Therefore, the taxon Poa timoleontis, which is not explicitly included in the collective species Poa bulbosa, is not mentioned in the synoptic table of the two associations. Consequently, the as- sociations Stipo tortilis-Poetum timoleontis and Lagopo- -Poetum timoleontis are not validly published in Oberdorfer (1954). In considering these two association names as val- idly published, Čarni et al. (2014) also made some correc- tions. In both names, the first name-giving taxon corre- sponds to a specific epithet used without the generic name, namely “Tortileto” for “Stipa tortilis” and “Lagopeto” for Plantago lagopus. In accordance with Art. 14b, Čarni et al. (2014) corrected the former name to Stipo tortilis-Poetum timoleontis. For the latter name, where the specific epithet "lagopus" is also a validly published generic name, they retained the association name and corrected the ortho- graphic error ("Lagopo" instead of "Lagopeto"; Arts. 10a and 41b). Indeed, Lagopus arvensis Fourr. (Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon sér. 2, 17: 140, 1869) is a valid name (International Plant Names Index, https://www.ipni.org/n/32110-1, accessed 3 Oct 2023) for Plantago lagopus L., and according to the third edition of the ICPN (Weber et al. 2000) this name should be retained as the name-giving taxon. However, as L. arvensis Fourr. is an illegitimate name, this would no longer be the case with the current rules (Art. 44). Čarni et al. (2014, p. 124) also corrected the second name giving-taxon of the name Lagopo-Poetum timoleontis, namely Poa timoleontis, to Poa bulbosa, in accordance with Art. 43, because they considered the presence of the taxon Poa timoleontis in the research area to be doubtful. On the other hand, they did not make this correction for the name Stipo tortilis-Poetum timoleontis, considering that the taxon Poa timoleontis could occur where Oberdorfer had originally sampled the association. Čarni et al. (2014) provided a neotype for the Lagopo-Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer 1954 corr. Čarni et al. 2014, but the latter name was nevertheless not inciden- tally validated, as it was not reported as new (Art. 3i). As the name Lagopo-Poetum remains invalidly pub- lished, we validate it, and correct the name here based on the results of Čarni et al. (2014), namely Plantagini lagopodis- -Poetum bulbosae Čarni, Matevski, Šilc et Ćušterevska ex Terzi, Jasprica, Čarni, Matevski, Bergmeier et Theurillat ass. nov. hoc loco. The original diagnosis of the new association includes relevés 1-12 of Table 1, on page 112, in Čarni et al. (2014), and its holotypus is relevé 5 in this table, which is the same relevé selected as the neotype for the invalid Lagopo- -Poetum bulbosae. A second association, Romuleo graecae-Poetum bulbo- sae, was also validly published by Čarni et al. (2014) and classified in the Romuleion. However, the name of this alli- ance was not validated either, as it was not reported as new (Art. 3i). Recently, Stanišić-Vujačić et al. (2023) maintained the same nomenclatural interpretation for the Romuleion as Čarni et al. (2014), and they described two new associa- tions to be included in this alliance, the Romuleo bulbocodii- -Poetum bulbosae and the Ornithogalo exscapi-Poetum bulbosae. Attempts to find a neotype for the “Tortileto-Poetum timoleontis” have failed, as no adequate relevé could be found. Two relevés containing Poa bulbosa together with Stipa capensis (= S. tortilis) were published by Čarni et al. (2014) among the relevés of the Romuleo graecae-Poetum bulbosae (relevés 14 and 20, Table 1). However, the floristic composition of these two relevés appears to be more similar to the other relevés of the Romuleo graecae-Poetum bulbosae than to those in the synoptic table of the “Tortileto-Poetum timoleontis” in Oberdorfer (1954). A comparison of the synoptic table of the original diagnosis of the Plantagini lagopodis-Poetum bulbosae in Čarni et al. (2014) (relevés 1-12, Table 1) showed that it is also closer to the Romuleo graecae-Poetum bulbosae (J = 0.51) than to the relevés in Oberdorfer's synoptic table of the “Lagopo-Poetum timoleontis” (J = 0.27) or the “Tortileto-Poetum timoleontis” (J = 0.27). Conversely, a comparison between the two synoptic relevés of Oberdorfer (1954) showed that their floristic composition is very similar (J = 0.78). Therefore, the syntaxonomic interpretation by Horvat et al. (1974), which considers Oberdorfer’s two syntaxa to be two subassocia- tions of the same association seems justified, and the Lagopo-Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer 1954 could corre- spond to a different association than the Plantagini lagopodis- -Poetum bulbosae. However, in order to verify this hypoth- esis, relevés from the regions from which Oberdorfer described his two associations are essential. In terms of alliance, the Romuleion currently contains five associations (see the syntaxonomic scheme below). A sixth association (Festuco valesiacae-Poetum bulbosae) has recently been described (Terzi and Jasprica 2024), but ques- tions remain about its inclusion in this alliance. Another undescribed association may occur in Crete, according to unpublished relevés of E. Bergmeier. Those new syntaxa are not considered in the present discussion. The name of the alliance is derived from the genus Romulea Maratti (Pl. Romul. Saturn. 13, 1772), which is present with two taxa in the original diagnoses of the five described associations, (1) Romulea bulbocodium (L.) Sebast. & Mauri (Fl. Roman. Prodr. 17, 1818) and (2) Romulea linaresii subsp. graeca. Romulea bulbocodium is a widespread Mediterranean species (Euro+Med 2006-2023) whereas Romulea linaresii subsp. graeca is a Balkan-Anatolian taxon occuring in Turkey, Greece, including the Aegean islands, and some Balkan countries (e.g. Hadžiablahović and Bulić 2004, Dimopoulos et al. 2013, Raycheva et al. 2021). Since the alliance is centred in the southern Balkans, we follow the proposal of Bolòs et al. (1996) to consider Romulea linaresii subsp. graeca as the name-giving taxon, and we validate the name Romuleion graecae Oberdorfer ex Terzi, Jasprica, Čarni, Matevski, Bergmeier et Theurillat all. nov. hoc loco. The nomenclatural type (holotypus) of the new alliance is the Romuleo graecae-Poetum bulbosae Čarni, TERZI, M., JASPRICA, N., ČARNI, A., MATEVSKI, V., BERGMEIER, E., THEURILLAT, J.-P. 90 ACTA BOT. CROAT. 83 (2), 2024 Matevski, Šilc et Ćušterevska 2014 (Čarni et al. 2014, p. 125) from the southern part of the Balkans (Greece). According to Oberdorfer (1954) and Čarni et al. (2014), the character- istic species of the alliance are: Allium guttatum, Alyssum minutum, Alyssum repens, Campanula ramosissima, Gagea reticulata, Hedypnois rhagadioloides, Hypochaeris cretensis, Lagoecia cuminoides, Linaria simplex, Lotus angustissimus, Ornithogalum collinum, Ornithogalum armeniacum, Picris pauciflora, Romulea bulbocodium, Romulea linaresii subsp. graeca, Romulea columnae, Sedum aetnense, Silene graeca, Ziziphora capitata. Therefore, we propose the following syntaxonomic scheme (the author citation of the class follows Terzi et al. 2024): BUL – Poetea bulbosae Rivas Goday et Rivas-Martínez ex Navarro Andrés et Valle Gutiérrez 1984 BUL-01 Poetalia bulbosae Rivas Goday et Rivas-Martínez in Rivas Goday et Ladero 1970 BUL-01F Romuleion graecae Oberdorfer ex Terzi, Jasprica, Čarni, Matevski, Bergmeier et Theurillat all. nov. hoc loco [holotypus: Romuleo graecae- Poetum bulbosae Čarni, Matevski, Šilc et Ćušterevska 2014; synonyms: Romuleion Ober- dorfer 1954 (Art. 2b), Romuleion Oberdorfer ex Horvat, Glavač et Ellenberg 1974 (Art. 2b), Romuleion graecae Oberdorfer ex de Bolòs, Masalles, Ninot et Vigo 1996 (Art. 3f)] Plantagini lagopodis-Poetum bulbosae Čarni, Matevski, Šilc et Ćušterevska ex Terzi, Jasprica, Čarni, Matevski, Bergmeier et Theurillat ass. nov. hoc loco [syn. Lagopo-Poetum bulbosae Oberdorfer 1954 corr. Čarni, Matevski, Šilc et Ćušterevska 2014 (corr. superfl.)] Romuleo graecae-Poetum bulbosae Čarni, Matev- ski, Šilc et Ćušterevska 2014 Airo elegantissimae-Trifolietum dalmatici Bolòs, Masalles, Ninot et Vigo 1996 Romuleo bulbocodii-Poetum bulbosae Stanišić- Vujačić, Stešević, Hadžiablahović et Šilc 2023 Ornithogalo exscapi-Poetum bulbosae Stanišić- Vujačić, Stešević, Hadžiablahović et Šilc 2023 Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer ex Horvat, Glavač et Ellenberg 1974 (Art. 3f) [incl. Lagopo-Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer 1954 (Art. 3f), Tortileto- -Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer 1954 (recte: Stipo capensis-Poetum timoleontis) (Art. 3f)] Acknowledgments The authors thank Steve Latham (United Kingdom) for improving the English, and Kiril Vassilev for his help in try- ing to find a neotype for the Tortileto-Poetum timoleontis Oberdorfer 1954. Additional thanks are extended to two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. A.Č. is funded by the ARIS (P1-0236). 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