4.0. INTERNAL ORGANISATION OF CHECK-LIST

4.1.Signs and abbreviations in the check-list

The following abbreviations are used in the check-list:

excl.- exclusive
incl.- inclusive
s.l.- sensu lato
s.s.- sensu stricto
subsp.- subspecies
ssp.div.- subspecies diversae
nom.ambig.- nomen ambiguum
nom.nud. - nomen nudum
non al. - non aliorum (auctorum)
p.p. - pro parte
sec. - secundum
s.n.- sine numero (no number in the collection?)
agg.- aggregate (see 3.5)
+- small species in aggregate (see 3.5)
- in the check-list appendix with additional bibliography (see 3.2)
Ex,E,V, R,I,K,O,nt- endangered species sign according to IUCN categorisation (see 4.1.1)
!- lat. "vidi" - author saw holotypus, lektotypus or neotypus
* - polymorphous taxa
cult.- cultivated taxa (see 3.7 B)
nat.- naturalised taxa (see 3.7 A)
?- dubiosus, dubious taxonomic status or controversial occurrence in Croatia
Z- taxa protected by the Legislature on the Protection of Nature in the Republic of Croatia
- endemic taxa (see 4.1.2)

Most of the abbreviations are common in the botanical bibliography and do not require special explications.

4.1.1. The endangered species marking according to IUCN categorisation

The Check-list includes the endangered species markings according to the IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre (1983). The basic categories are:

The check-list features the endangerment signs with the appropriate taxa on the basis of two sources: the List of rare, endangered and endemic plants in Europe (IUCN, 1983) and the Red Book of Plant Species of the Republic of Croatia (SUGAR, 1994). If the status of a species differs on the national and regional level, both IUCN degrees are given - the first one showing the national level (Croatia), and the second one the regional level (Europe). (e.g. Botrychium matricariifolium (Retz.) A.Br. ex Koch, ER).

4.1.2. Endemic species

A number of endemic species of Croatia are not included into the lists of the rare, endangered and endemic plants. The full evaluation and estimate of their status is yet to be completed. They are only listed with the pertinent marking O (chapter 4.1.). The degree of endangerment has not been given for such taxa.

The particular taxa are considered to be endemic if their geographic distribution is:

The taxa whose greater part or almost entire areal is located in most neighbouring countries and appear in Croatia only in the form of the disjunction areal or only in their areal fringes are not considered as endemic in Croatia (e.g. Ranunculus cassubicus L., JALAS et SUOMINEN, 1989). The status of such taxa in the specific cases is: a rare species on the national level (e.g. Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller, SUGAR 1994).

4.2. Organisation of the Check-list

The Check list is published successively according to a systematic sequence. The classification system above all levels of the family was infered from CRONQUIST (1981), TAKHTAJAN (1969, 1980), DAHLGREEN (1980, 1983), DAHLGREEN et CLIFFORD (1982) and HOLMES (1989). The families within a class, genera within a family, species within a genus and subspecies within a species were classified according to an alphabetic order. The comprehensive Check-list contains the alphabetic contents of the species and their Croatian names.

4.3. Taxa coding

In addition to the standard data necessary for the Check-list and in order to build a floristic data base, supplements of the unified code for the genera, species and subspecies according to one of the already existing algorhythm (EHRENDORFER 1973, PIGNATTI 1976, 1980, GREUTER et al. 1984, BOTANICAL GARDENS CONSERVATION SECRETARIAT 1987, KÖNIG 1988, BUTTLER et PAEGER 1990, WIßKIRCHEN 1994) or a new one have been provided.

4.4. Taxa treatment pattern

The basic pattern for treatment of every taxa is mostly correspondent with the extended pattern applied by EHRENDORFER (1973), and consists of the following data:


name of genus/ author of genus/ Croatian name of genus
name of species/ author of species/ first publication reference
synonym 1 -n/ author of synonym/
Croatian name of species

+ signs and abbreviations

For example:

Helleborus L. - kukurijek


atrorubens Waldst. et Kit., Descr. et Icon.Pl. rar. Hung. 2:301 (1812)
(= H. dumetorum subsp. atrorubens (Waldst. et Kit.) Merxm. et Podl.)
tamnocrveni kukurijek

Only in the cases of taxa that are significant for Croatia (first described in Croatia or other significant taxa) the above pattern is extended:


name of genus/ author of genus/ Croatian name of genus
name of species/ author of species/ first publication reference
typus/ type collected by/ number of typus in the collection/
herbarium abbbreviation with the holotypus, i.e. isotypus
synonym 1 -n/ author of synonym/
Croatian name of species

+ signs and abbreviations

For example:

Helleborus L. - kukurijek


** croaticus Martinis, Supp. Fl. Anal. Jugosl. 1: 14-15 (1973)

TYPUS: Banija, Moslavina i Slavonia, Hrvatska: Martinis Z., s.n.
HOLOTYPUS: ZA! ISOTYPUS: ZA!
(= H. purpurascens Schlosser non Waldst. et Kit.)
hrvatski kukurijek

4.5. Croatian names

The Check-list supplies the Croatian names for each taxa on the level of genera, species and subspecies. Since the same taxa may have several different popular names (e.g. Juniperus phoenicea L. is named "primorska somina", "gluhac", "gluhacusa"), instead of enumerating them all an attempt to give a unique name was made - the main basis being the very popular names. As for the taxa that do not have a popular name, they were given a new one based on their Latin name, its widespreadness, stand or a major diagnostic characteristics. All Croatian names have been compared with DOMAC (1994) to the greatest possible extent.




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