Summary
Included here is mainland Italy. Endemics of Italian islands can be found on other web pages.
Of the endemic vascular plants so far recorded there are about 543 species in 178 genera and 53 families. There are 3 endemic genera (marked red) but no endemic families.
References
An annotated checklist of the Italian vascular flora. 2005. Editors: Fabio Conti, Giovanna Abbate, Alessandro Alessandrini and Carlo Blasi. Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio – Direzione per la Protezione della Natura, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
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