HBS Newsletter

Contents of the 14th HBS Newsletter 14/2024A

• Articles in Greek
• The Atlas of the Hellenic Flora is published
• The “Flora of Greece” project
• The Flora of Greece in numbers: a 10-year journey (2013-2023)
• Τhe significance of the marine angiosperms
• New data on the Flora of Greece (year of publication 2023, continued)
• Second year of volunteering at the Botanical Garden of the University of Patras
• 66th IAVS Annual Symposium 2024 & 32nd Conference of the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey, 15-20 September 2024, Madeira
• In memoriam. Britt Snogerup (1934–2023)
• Artemios Yannitsaros (1938-2023)

Contents of the 13th HBS Newsletter 13/2023Β

• The rediscovery of Consolida samia, a rare species of the Greek flora after 61 years
• Evros megafire and the Dadia forest
• Burnt area in the Special Conservation Areas of the NATURA 2000 network from the 2023 wildland fires in Greece
• Towards a new integrated governance and fire management model in the era of climate crisis
• Alien invasive plant species of Greece in the implementation of EU regulation 1143/2014
• The role of PIN1 auxin efflux carrier in Meloidogyne incognita infected tomato roots
• Seed germination traits and conservation implications for two native woody species: the endangered Juniperus drupacea Labill. and the endemic Acer hyrcanum subsp. reginae-amaliae Orph. ex Boiss. on Mt Parnon (Peloponnese, Greece)
• New data on the Flora of Greece (year of publication 2023)
• XVII OPTIMA Meeting Palermo & Erice, September 20-23, 2023
• Successful completion of the 2nd Assessment Workshop for the Red List
• 18th Panhellenic Scientific Conference of the Hellenic Botanical Society, Thessaloniki, 2-5 October 2024

Table of Contents of the 12th edition

• Compilation of Red Lists of Endangered Species of Plants, Animals and Fungi of Greece (P. Dimopoulos, I. Tsiripidis, I. Bazos, E. Iliadou, G. Fassou)
  New European Nature Restoration Law (Ioli Christopoulou)
• ACES: A Community on Ecosystem Services International Conference – Washington DC, 12-15 December 2022 (Panayotis Dimopoulos & Ioannis Kokkoris)
• Phase A of the Project “Monitoring and Assessment of the Conservation Status of Flora Species of Community and National Interest in Greece” has been completed (Kyriacos Georghiou, Nora Skokou, Panayiotis Trigas, Christini Fournaraki, Nikos Chlykas)
• Implementation of the project for the monitoring and assessment of the conservation status of terrestrial and wetland habitat types of Community and national interest in Greece (Ioannis Tsiripidis, Fotios Xystrakis, Panayiotis Dimopoulos)
• The project “Actions to protect and promote ecosystems of the Region Notio Aigaio in the areas of the Natura 2000 network” (Elpida Karadimou, Dimitra Kemitzoglou)
• The Bug-Network in Greece (Fotios Xystrakis, Georgios Adamidis)
• Development of germination protocols for local endemic plants of Olympus - Scientific coordinators: Theodora Merou and Spyros Tsiftsis
• Plant Micro-Reserves in Northern Peloponnisos (Maria Panitsa, Panayiotis Trigas, Ioannis Kokkoris, Kostantinos Kougioumoutzis, Maria Tsakiri, Eleni Koumoutsou, Gregoris Iatrou)
• From Biodiversity to Musketry: Detection of Plant Diversity in Pre-Industrial Peloponnese during the Flora Graeca Expedition (Chrysanthi Chimona, Sophia Papadopoulou, Foteini Kolyva, Maria Mina and Sophia Rhizopoulou)
• Projects selected to be financed for the study of endemic, threatened and of national importance plant species of Greece (Ioannis Tsiripidis)
• Volunteering at the Botanical Garden of the University of Patras (Aris Zografidis & Alexian Cheminal)
• Virtual Meetings of Young Botanists – 2nd Round (Konstantina Koutroumpa)
• New data on the Flora of Greece [2022 (continued) to early 2023] (Aris Zografidis)
   

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