Stipa austroitalicaMartinovský

WFO wfo-0000901751 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Stipa austroitalica, photographed by Leonardo Ancillotto
fig. a Leonardo Ancillotto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 200072053
Stipa austroitalica, photographed by Leonardo Ancillotto
fig. b Leonardo Ancillotto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196787854
Stipa austroitalica, photographed by Leonardo Ancillotto
fig. c Leonardo Ancillotto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196769171

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Stipa austroitalica is native: Italy, Sicilia ItalySicilia
Native distribution of Stipa austroitalica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Italy ITA EUROPE
Sicilia SIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Stipa austroitalica subsp. frentana Moraldo & Ricceri
  • Stipa austroitalica subsp. theresiae Martinovský & Moraldo

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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