HBS Newsletter

Table of Contents of issue 11/2022B

• Special Issues – Upcoming confereneces
• 8th Balkan Botanical Congress
• Floristic diversity of Greece: October 2013 - July 2022
• Artemios M. Mpozampalidīs
• Vernon Heywood
• Virtual meetings of young botanists
• New data on the Flora of Greece (2022) 
  
   

Contents:

• 4th ESP Europe Conference
• Virtual meetings of young botanists researching the Greek flora
• Afterword for HELECOS 10
• 3rd Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week successfully completed in Greece
• New data for the flora of Greece (year of publication 2021)
• Climate-Change Impacts on the Southernmost Mediterranean Arctic-Alpine Plant Populations
• Operation of a new research unit "Phylogeny and Taxonomy" at the Laboratory of Botany, Department of Biology, University of Patras
• UPA Herbarium: A new scanner to digitize its plant specimens
• Conferences to come

Contents:

• Drafting the Red Data Book for the vascular plants and fungi of Greece (starts in autumn 2021)
• 17th Panhellenic Scientific Conference “HELECOS-10 - Ecology and Nature Conservation: progress and challenges in a time of crisis”
• Vascular flora of Greece: floristic diversity (2013-2021)
• Guide to the Alien Plants of Greece and the NATURA 2000 Network of Protected Areas and and an online platform for the alien plants of Greece (www.alienplants.gr)
• Seminar on habitat types and plant species monitoring
• 3rd Biogeographical Natura 2000 seminar for the Mediterranean region
• Plant Endemism Centres and Biodiversity Hotspots in Greece
• Extinction Risk Assessment of the Greek Endemic Flora
• Linking Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Functional plant diversity with Ecosystem Services of cliffs and screes in Greece
• A new edition on the "Flora in Art and Culture
• New findings for the flora of Greece
• Plant of the month: January – June 2021

HBS Newsletter 8/2020Β

• Hellenic Botanical Society, 40 years of history: 1980-2020
• Dr. Ioannis Tsekos Obituary
• Pinelopi Delipetrou
• 3rd Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week, Plant Conservation Strategies: from Science to Practice, 15-19 March 2021
• 8th Plant Micro-Reserve added to the Micro-Reserve Network for threatened plants of Crete
• The Herbarium of the Goulandris Museum of Natural History (ΑΤΗ)
• Taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity patterns in the Northern Sporades islets complex (West Aegean, Greece)
• Plant Diversity Patterns and Conservation Implications under Climate-Change Scenarios in the Mediterranean: The Case of Crete (Aegean, Greece)
• New book on the flora and vegetation of the Prespa National Park
• Plant of the month: January – June 2020

HBS Newsletter 7/2020A

• The project on the Flora of Greece and the publication of the 1st volume – September 2021
• Τhe 8th Balkan Botanical Congress in Athens, Greece, in 2021
• Seminar on Diversity patterns of the Flora of Greece with applications in R
• The 16th OPTIMA Meeting
• Summarizing the workshops on the identification-interpretation of habitat types and the determination of favourable reference values for their area and range in the framework of Biogeographic Seminars for the Mediterranean region
• The Herbarium of the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (TAU)
• Plant of the month: January – June 2019
• Mountain ecosystems and Wind Parks: Biodiversity and approaches for the conservation of the natural environment
• Island ecosystems and Wind Parks: the case of the Aegean rocky islets and islands
• New taxa for the Greek flora
• 16th Conference of the Hellenic Botanical Society, Athens October 10-13, 2019.

HBS Newsletter 6/2019B

• The 1st volume of the Flora of Greece
• Greece, the country with the highest tree species diversity in the Mediterranean
• The flora of Greece: October 2013/2016 – August 2019
• Capparis spinosa
• Plant of the month: January – June 2019
• New taxa for the Greek flora
  • Hieracium pangaeum Szeląg & Vladimirov
  • Salix kaptarae a new species of willow from Crete
• New findings on the Greek flora
  • Tulipa rhodopea (VELEN.) VELEN
  • Genista willingii Kit Tan & Ziel.
• Typification of Verbascum undulatum (Scrophulariaceae)
• What is Allium achaium Boiss. & Orph.? Disentangling the taxonomy of a Greek mountain species

HBS Newsletter 5/2019A

• 16th Panhellenic Scientific Conference of the Hellenic Botanical Society, Athens, 10-13 October 2019
• The 7th Balkan Botanical Congress in Novi Sad (Serbia) – Meeting of the old and the new generation of botanists at the place where Balkans meet the Pannonian Plain
• On Nature of Mount Olimbos
• Plant of the month: July-December 2019
• New taxa for the Greek flora
  • Hypericum cycladicum Trigas
  • Silene christodouloui-zarkosii Kit Tan & G. Vold
• Greek Flora New findings
  • New records of Hieracium and Pilosella species
• Savvas Haritonidis, 1938-2019 - Obituary

HBS Newsletter 4/2018B

• The floristic diversity of Greece: October 2013 - June 2018
• 2018: 2nd edition of the Flora of Greece web site
• The Herbarium of the Botanical Museum National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• The Balkan-Aegean Dendrochronology Project: Tree-Ring Research for the Study of SE-European and East Mediterranean Civilizations
• Endemic Plants of Greece: Amorgos
• Illustrated Flora of Cyprus
• Atlas Florae Europaeae, volume 17, Rosaceae, Sorbus s.l
• 2nd Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week
• Plant of the month: January-June 2018
• Greek Flora New findings
  • Resurrection of Verbascum auriculatum, a long-disused name in Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana
  • Carthamus caeruleus L. (Cardueae, Asteraceae), a new record for Rodos Island, Greece
  • Contribution to the flora of Tilos Island
  • Petrorhagia laconica Trigas, Kalpoutz. & Kougioum.
  • Hypericum icaricum Kit Tan
  • Cymbalaria spetae Carnicero & al.
  • Ornithogalum insulare Kypriotakis, Antaloudaki & Tzanoudakis

HBS Newsletter 3/2018A

• 2nd Meeting of the Steering and the Scientific Committee for the “Flora of Greece” project, Patras 15-16 December 2017
• From the 1st to the 2nd edition of the website “Flora of Greece web” - June 2017 / February 2018
• Getting acquainted with the Greek Botanical Museums-Herbaria
• The Botanical Museum - HERBARIUM of the Department of Biology, University of Patras (UPA)
• Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana – Popular Edition
• Atlas of the Greek Orchids
• New taxa for the Greek flora
  • Campanula kamariana
  • Silene marschallii subsp. guicciardii
  • Fritillaria phitosia
  • Ornithogalum naxense
  • Verbascum corinthiacum
  • Phelipanche hedypnoidis
  • Genista willingii
• Plants of the month: July – December 2017

HBS Newsletter 2/2017B

• The event of the Hellenic Botanical Society for the presentation of the “Flora of Greece project”
• Flora of Greece Web
• Allium symiacum (Amaryllidaceae), a new species from Symi Island (SE Aegean, Greece)
• Allium iatrouinum and A. pycnotrichum: Two new Allium (A. sect. Cupanioscordum, Amaryllidaceae) species from Greece
• Revision of Verbascum daenzeri group
• New record for Iris hellenica Mermygkas, Kit Tan & Yannitsaros
• First confirmed record of Elodea canadensis Michx. in Greece
• Plants of the month: January - June 2017
• Arne Strid Honorary Doctor to the Faculty of Biology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• CARE-MEDIFLORA – Conservation Actions for Threatened Mediterranean Island Flora: ex situ and in situ joint actions.
• 15th Panhellenic Scientific Conference of the Hellenic Botanical Society
• 15th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants Queenstown, New Zealand
• 8th European Congress of Botanic Gardens EuroGard VIII, Lisbon 7-11 Μay, 2018
• 18th Panhellenic Forestry Conference
• «Painting by numbers» and Flora Graeca
• Grammos: The neglected giant

First issue of the HBS Newsletter (1/2017A)

• Annual Action Plan of the new Board of the Hellenic Botanical Society (HBS) (October 2016 - September 2017)
• Description of new taxa for science
• Actions of the new Board of the Hellenic Botanical Society (October-December 2016)
• 8th Congress of the Hellenic Ecological Society
• 2016: anniversary Aristotle’s year (2400 years since Aristotle’s birth)
• New publications on the Greek flora
  • Brullo S. & Erben M. (2016). The genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in Greece, Phytotaxa 240 (1)
  • Dimopoulos P, Raus T, Bergmeier Ε, Constantinidis Th, Iatrou G, Kok­kini S, Strid A, & D Tzanoudakis (2016). Vascular plants of Greece – an annotated checklist. Supplement. Willdenowia 46(3): 301 - 347.
  • Gkelis S, Ouralidis I, Panou M, Pappas N (2016). Cyanobacteria of Greece: An annotated checklist. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e10084.
  • Kleinsteuber A., Ristow M. & Hassler M. (2016). Flora von Rhodos und Chalki, Band 1.  
    Strid A. (2016). Atlas of the Aegean Flora. Part 1: Text & Plates. Part 2: Maps. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. Englera 33 (1 & 2).
  • European Habitats under threat: First ever Red List of all habitats on our land and in our seas