Sáez Llorenç, Mesbah Melilia, López-Alvarado Javier, Bacchetta Gianluigi, El Mokni Ridha, Peruzzi Lorenzo, Oxelman Bengt
Systematics and Evolution of Vascular Plants (UAB) - Associated Unit to CSIC, Dept. BABVE, Autonomous University of Barcelona, ES08193 Bellaterra, Spain Autonomous University of Barcelona Bellaterra Spain.
Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre Gothenburg Sweden.
PhytoKeys. 2022 May 11;195:143-160. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.195.81370. eCollection 2022.
has been misunderstood and confused with , although several morphological characters (petal shape, calyx indumentum, hairiness of stamen filaments, seed size, seed-coat surface and shape) allow separation of these species. Moreover, (which has been considered conspecific with ) and (an alleged endemic species to south-western Sardinia) are considered here as taxonomic synonyms of and , respectively. These taxonomic conclusions are strongly supported by multivariate morphometric analyses of 21 characters.
