Distribution
Native to:
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Krym, North Caucasus, Romania, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Poland
Recorded in error in:
Spain
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Asperula nemoralis Salisb. in Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 58 (1796), nom. superfl.
- Blepharostemma taurinum (L.) Fourr. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 16: 398 (1868)
- Galium taurinum (L.) Scop. in Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 1: 101 (1771)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Asperula caucasica Pobed. in V.L.Komarov, Fl. URSS 23: 692 (1958)
- Asperula propinqua Pobed. in V.L.Komarov, Fl. URSS 23: 693 (1958)
- Asperula rubioides Schur in Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 276 (1866)
- Asperula taurina subsp. caucasica (Pobed.) Ehrend. in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 37: 248 (1979)
- Asperula taurina var. intermedia Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 8: 62 (1903)
- Asperula taurina subsp. leucanthera (Beck) Hayek in G.Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitt.-Eur. 6(1): 201 (1914)
- Asperula taurina f. leucanthera Beck in Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. 2: 153 (1887)
- Asperula taurina var. longifolia Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 8: 63 (1903)
- Asperula trinervia Lam. in Fl. Franç. 3: 376 (1779)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2007). Flora Iberica 15: 1-449. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
- Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
- Gilli, C. & al. (2020). Floristische Neufunde (376-429). Neilreichia 11: 165-227.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2007). Flora Iberica 15: 1-449. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
- Litvinskaya, S.A. & Murtazaliev, R.A. (2013). Flora of the Northern Caucasus: An Atlas and Identification Book: 1-688. Fiton XXI.
- Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images