Salicornia perennis
Island distribution (first record)
Othonoi
Ereikoussa
Mathraki
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherCorfu (Gelmi 1889 as S. radicans)
Paxos
Antipaxos
Meganisi
Kalamos
Kastos
Atokos
Ithaka
Echinades (Iliadou & al. 2014 as Sarcocornia perennis)
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherCephalonia
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherZakynthos (Boratyński & al. 1991a as Arthrocnemum perenne)
Strofades (Yannitsaros & al. 1995 as Sarcocornia perennis)
Annotation: The identity of the East Mediterranean populations (including the Ionian ones) of the suffruticose Salicornia species group (formerly Sarcocornia: cf. Steffen & al. 2015; but see Piirainen & al. 2017) remains uncertain: Recent studies (Fuente & al. 2013, Fuente & al. 2015) reveal S. perennis s. str. to be confined to the Atlantic coasts of Europe. Appropriate investigations of S. fruticosa and its allies E of the Apennine peninsula are outstanding. According to Fuente & al. 2015 decisive characters for delimitation are to be found in seed micromorphology. However, due to late seed formation (November/December) the herbarium material currently available to us lacks mature seeds necessary for a thorough comparison. [2019-01-30]
Taxonomic references ("taxonyms")
linked to standard floras (PFB, FE, FE2, FH) and annotated checklists (AFE, VPG) giving direct reference to occurrences of plant taxa on the Ionian Islands:
PFB: | Salicornia fruticosa f. radicans |
FE: | Arthrocnemum perenne |
FE2: | Arthrocnemum perenne |
AFE: | Arthrocnemum perenne |
FH: | Sarcocornia perennis |
VPG: | Sarcocornia perennis |