Dániel Pifkó

National Educational Library and Museum of Hungary

The present part of the series provides miscellaneous new records of six lichenforming, two lichenicolous and six flowering plant species from Hungary, Romania and Serbia. New Hungarian chorological records for the flowering plants are: Juncus sphaerocarpus new for the Putnok Hills and Sorbus semiincisa for Mezőföld. The second recent occurrence of...

György Szollát, a Hungarian biologist and botanist, was working in the vascular plant collections of the Department of Botany in the Hungarian Natural History Museum from 1978 to 2007. His main fields were exploring and monitoring the flora and vegetation of the national parks and protected areas in the surroundings of Budapest, in the Gerecse Mts,...

On the basis of critical study of Chamaecytisus aggregatus (Schur) Czerep. (= Cytisus aggregatus Schur), including materials from CHER and LW Herbarium and the type specimens as well, we are considered that the species should be excluded from the Ukrainian flora. It was defined what two known specimens from Bukovyna which noted in “Flora of Uk. RSR...

Type specimens of species of genus Cytisus Desf. s. l. sect. Tubocytisus DC. (= Chamaecytisus Link): topotypes of C. heuffelii Wierzb. var. romanicus Prod., C. austriacus L. var. virescens Kovács ex Neilr., and topotype of C. po-dolicus Błocki, deposited in the Herbarium of Y. Fed'kovych Chernivtsi National University (CHER) are presented.

Elvira Valentini was the first female assistant professor of scientific universities in Hungary. Valentini grew up in a wealthy family of Kolozsvár. Having finished the upper girl’s school of Kolozsvár, she graduated in 1902, and then she started her university studies in the Royal Hungarian Ferenc Joseph University (Kolozsvár) in the same year. Du...

The Pannonian swallow-wort (Vincetoxicum pannonicum (Borhidi) Holub) is endemic to the Pannonian biogeographical region, occurring only in the Buda and Villány Mts in Hungary. Current distribution and population size of this rare plant species is surveyed. The species is recorded from the following localities: Budajenő: Községi erdő, Budaörs: Szekr...

The present part of the series provides new records of 14 taxa of which 8 are native and 6 introduced in Europe. Three vascular plants are newly reported from Kosovo (Corrigiola litoralis, Dysphania pumilio, Equisetum pratense) and one (Chamaecytisus purpureus) from Northern Macedonia. The occurrence of one species (Corydalis pumila) is confirmed i...

Lectotypes are designated for D. plumarius, D. lumnitzeri, D. lumnitzeri subsp. pseudopraecox, D. praecox, D. serotinus (superseding a previous lectotypification) and D. serotinus subsp. kitaibelianus. Epitypes are designated for D. plumarius, D. hungaricus and D. praecox, and a neotype is designated for D. serotinus var. regis‐stephani. The applic...

Farkas, E. (2020): Taxonomical and chorological notes 12 (126-136).-Studia bot. hung. 51(1): 77-98. Abstract: Th e present part of the series provides new records of 11 taxa, among them fi ve lichen-forming fungi and six bryophytes. One lichen-forming fungus was discovered as new species in Hungary (Parmeliella triptophylla), however it was collect...

Molnár, Cs., Csathó, A. I., Molnár, Á. P. & Pifkó, D. (2019): Amendments to the alien flora of the Republic of Moldova.- Studia bot. hung. 50(1): 225-240. Abstract: In this paper, eleven alien plant species are presented, two of them are reported for the first time in the Republic of Moldova (Euphorbia maculata, Gaillardia pulchella), one of them h...

Prior to the dualistic era, among the contemporary cultural institutions, “fulltime” botanist was employed in the Hungarian National Museum only, and scientific institutes dealing with botany did not exist at all in Hungary at that time. In the early period of dualism, the education of botany underwent a remarkable development, and the trend contin...

Edit Farkas and László Lőkös are internationally well known and respected Hungarian lichenologists. They did their best to maintain and to develop several aspects of the Hungarian lichenology, including biodiversity research on lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi, taxonomic revisions based on morphological, chemical and molecular methods, ecolog...

János Xántus, an outstanding personality of Hungarian scientific life, was forced to emigrate after the freedom fight of 1848–49. From 1851 Xántus lived in the USA where he collected animal and plant specimens in California from 1857 onwards, as commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution. From his herbarium collected in North America certain dupli...

This work includes all names of higher plants reported or collected in the present territory of Albania. The records are critically evaluated; the origin of them was tracked down and possible vouchers were searched for, revised and evaluated. Altogether, 6,419 basionyms were identified with 5,480 recently accepted taxa and their nativity status wer...

Jávorka Sándornak a Magyar Természettudományi Múzeumban őrzött hagyatékából került elő egy 12 oldalas gépelt kézirat, amelynek címe „Határozókulcs a magyar flóra területén működő ama botanikusok felismerésére, akik az Album Kleinianumban ábrázoltattak. Budapest 1912. szeptember hó 25.-én”. A munka ötven botanikus frappáns leírását tartalmazza határ...

Carex markgrafii is a species described from Albania and known only from a single locality (Shen Ndue) in the central part of the country. The type specimen was destroyed during the World War II, and to date there was very little additional information about this taxon. During the fieldwork on the type locality, a small population of this species w...

A sudden economic, social and cultural change in Hungary during the dualistic era (1867-1918), resulted in a considerable improvement in the education of botany. Two new universities were founded with botanical departments. Together with these, three universities conducted botanical education at that time. During the 50 years of the dualistic era,...

Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium is a group of 30 species ranging across northern Eurasia in various open habitats from dry steppe to swamps. It includes several horticulturally important species that have been crossed in the past. As such, it exemplifies a group with long taxonomic tradition, exemplified by more than 600 valid names, which also...

Order information: https://buki-konyv.hu/en/webshop/distribution-atlas-of-vascular-plants-in-albania/10154/ http://commerce.nhmus.hu/?q=productdisplay/distribution-atlas-vascular-plants-albania This volume is the first attempt to present the distribution of all vascular plants in the territory of Albania. Previously, no similar work has been publis...

This volume is the first attempt to present the distribution of all vascular plants in the territory of Albania. Previously, no similar work has been published. Moreover, distribution data of single species from Albania are hardly available – not even Albanian flora works provide chorological information or remarks on the frequency of taxa. Distrib...

Gymnospermium is a genus of early spring-flowering tuberous herbaceous plants including c. 12 species distributed from south-eastern Europe to East Asia. For the European and Caucasian populations, different taxonomic concepts have been proposed, ranging from two to five species. We used AFLP and nuclear and plastid DNA sequences (internal transcri...

Margittai Antal a Munkácsi Gimnázium tanára, kiváló botanikus volt, aki a Kárpátok flóráját kutatta. Mint amatőr botanikus, az évek során vált Európa szerte ismert flóraszakértővé, a rendszertan és a kárpáti régió flórájának avatott ismerőjévé. Margittai Antal az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia területén született, Munkácson. Miután Turóc vármegyében több...

A revision of Bruno Schutt’s herbarium is here discussed, and a reconstruction of the routes of his collecting trips in Albania between 1927 and 1939 is presented. Schutt’s herbarium was not available to the public until recently. However, a manuscript, compiled by him, including the records of collected taxa, was used to outline their distribution...

Az első szerző 2009 nyarán a Hortobágyon található Ágota-puszta délkeleti részén megtalálta az egyvirágú here (Trifolium ornithopodioides) vegetatív állapotú egyedeit. A növény a megtalálás helyén egy ősmedervonulat szikfok-zónájában él. A faj másik állományát 2016-ban a második szerző találta a karcagi Ecse-zugban, kiszáradt, legelt ecsetpázsitosb...

Two new species, Chamaecytisus korabensis and Ch. pseudojankae, both from Albania, are described and illustrated here. The relationship of the new taxa to Ch. ratisbonensis and Ch. eriocarpus agg. is discussed. Ch. korabensis is an endemic species of eastern Albania and related to the Eastern European Ch. ratisbonensis agg. Ch. pseudojankae is an e...

We aimed to clarify the taxonomic position of the poorly known Scilla albanica, described Albania ca 80 years ago in which completely fell into oblivion because of the lack of any confirming records of the taxon. Morphological, cytological and ecological comparisons with supposedly related taxa are presented based on collected living and herbarium...

The results of biographical investigation of Lajos Vágner, amateur naturalists and researcher of Carpathians flora, are presented.

Lajos Vágner (Wagner, Vagner - Ludvig, Ludwig, Lajos) worked in the middle of the 19th century, studying the flora of one of the largest though the least studied counties of the Hungarian Kingdom – Maramoros (now Ukraine and Roumania). The researcher collected plants all his life. The most valuable heritage of the indefatigable toiler researcher of...

Rubus armeniacus is reported as an alien invasive specis new for Bosnia-Hezegovina. The occurrence of Rubus bifrons is reconfirmed in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Th e fi rst part of the newly launched series includes miscellaneous new records from fungi to vascular plants. New chorological records of 14 fungi taxa are provided here: two new (Hypoxy-lon ticinense and Amylostereum laevigatum) and one confi rmed (Sarcodontia crocea) for Hungary; one new for Kiskunság and Bükk Mts (Pholiota squarrosoides); fi v...

Morphometrical studies on three population's of two closely related taxa of Gymnospermium, G. scipetarum and G. maloi, have been carried out. Altogether 10 morphometric characters of 21 distinguishing characters listed in the description of G. maloi have been studied and the significance of 3 additional characters are discussed. In 4 cases, no sign...

During several botanical expeditions in the Republic of Serbia (Mts Šar-Planina and Mts Homoljske Planine), two species of the genus Viola (V. sect. Viola) were found as new for the flora of Serbia: Viola chelmea Boiss. & Heldr. in Mt. Ošljak and V. jooi Janka in Mt. Vukan. The last taxon represents a new species also for the flora of the Balkan Pe...

Abstract: Lajos Vágner, amateur botanist, was born 200 years ago. He was living and working in Máramaros. His scientific heritage including approximately 40,000 herbarium specimens is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. As he had very few publications, the herbarium itself represents the most important part of his scientific work is....

A complete list of vascular plant taxa, described by Antal Margittai is given here containing 64 varieties, forms, and hybrids, with typifi cation of 9 taxa, whose type specimens are deposited in BP. Th is material thus includes 8 lectotypes hereby designated, along with 7 isolectotypes and 16 original specimens that are here recorded.

The first synthesis of the alien flora of Albania is presented here. In order to be able to compare with other published studies, the categories of the aliens are described using widely accepted terms. However, additional terms are also introduced in the text. Altogether, 196 alien species occur outside cultivation, including 81 naturalised and 16...

The first synthesis of the alien flora of Albania is presented here. In order to be able to compare with other published studies, the categories of the aliens are described using widely accepted terms. However, additional terms are also introduced in the text. Altogether , 196 alien species occur outside cultivation, including 81 naturalised and 16...

Altogether 70 taxa are discussed in this contribution towards a critical floristic checklist of the Albanian flora. Of these, 21 taxa are reported as new for the country based on the authors' own field observations and collected specimens and on the revision of relevant material in European herbaria; 17 taxa are deleted from the flora and the reaso...

The flora of Albania is rich in vascular plants, comprising about 3250 species which are included in ‘Flora e Shqipërisë’ (Flora of Albania Vols 1– 4). However, several hundred taxa mainly reported by foreign authors were not included. Some of them can be found in the ‘Flora ekskursioniste e Shqipërisë’ (Excursion flora of Albania) and also have b...

Altogether 32 angiosperm taxa (species or subspecies) and two pteridophytes are reported and discussed, of which 24 taxa are new for the flora of Albania, one is also new for Kosovo (Carex michelii), and one is new even for the Balkan Peninsula (Evax asterisciflora). Ten other species, which had been reported previously but were neglected in recent...

Barina Z. & Pifkó D.: Contributions to the flora of Albania, 2. — Willdenowia 41: 139–149. — Online ISSN 1868-6397; © 2011 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem. doi:10.3372/wi.41.41118 (available via http://dx.doi.org/) Altogether, 34 vascular plant taxa of the flora of Albania are discussed, of which 22 are new records of species for the territory of Albania and 12...

The Proceedings of the Conference include scientific reports on the history of botanical studies and environmentalism in the Carpathian region; lives and careers of experts and amateurs studying the vegetation cover of the Carpathians; herbarium collections.

Antal Margittai - botanist, explorer of the Carpathian flora, professor of Mukachevo High School

The results of Antal Margittai, outstanding botanist and researcher of the Carpathian flora, biographical investigation are presented.

Six new species for the flora of Albania ( Convolvulus siculus, Gagea amblyopetala, Gagea bohemica agg., Ptilostemon chamaepeuce, Spergula pentandra and Stachys canescens ) were collected during the 2010 March field trip and are discussed here. Additionally, the occurrence of Ceratocephala falcata in Albania is confirmed and contributions to the di...

The book comprises scientific works of outstanding botanist, researcher of the Carpathian flora Antal Margittai who was one of the best connoisseurs of the Transcarpathian vegetation. His works published in scientific journals of Hungary and the Czechoslovak Republic in the early XX century today remain little known for the greatest part. The works...

Floristic results of our botanical explorations in Albania between 2005 and 2008 are presented. The studied area covers almost the whole territory of Albania, except for the NE part of the country. Altogether 18 angiosperm taxa are reported and discussed, 11 are species new for the flora of Albania and 7 are rather rare species that had been report...

Floristic results mainly of four field trips to Albania in 2007 are presented. The trips touched the surroundings of the towns Vlorë, Gjirokastër and Korçe, the region Dumre as well as Thatë, Vallamarë and Korab Mts. Altogether 24 angiosperm taxa, of which 9 are new for the flora of the country, are reported and discussed. Several taxa of rare or q...

In the framework of the botanical and zoological expeditions of the Hun - garian Natural History Museum to the Balkans, a specimen of Vipera ursinii graeca was observed in the southern Nemerçke Mountains of Albania. It is the first record of the subspecies outside Greece, but zoogeographically it belongs to the northern Pin -

In this paper new records of 9 vascular plant species are discussed, 7 of which are new for the flora of Albania and 2 species are less known. Orobanche lavandulacea and Teline monspessulana were found near the Adriatic Sea, Verbascum orientale and Lathyrus saxatilis far from the sea at lower altitudes, while Corydalis pumila, Stellaria holostea, A...

The Hungarian Red Data Book (NÉMETH 1989) represents the threatened vascular plants of Hungary; however, it was published nearly 20 years ago. To date, our know-ledge is greatly broadened on the flora of the country, so the former Red List is already obsolete. The authors have elaborated a new variant of the Red List of the threatened Hungarian vas...

Eighty type specimens of 30 Cytisus taxa, described from the Carpathian Basin, have been localised and designated by the author: one holotype, 22 lectotypes, 19 isolectotypes, 36 syntypes, and two topotypes. A taxonomic revision was also carried out. Cytisus prolifer was synonymized with Chamaecytisus albus; Cytisus pannonicus with Chamaecytisus su...

The authors publish a new occur of the rare Carex hartmannii Cajander at Tornense in North Hungary. They summarize of the details especially about the mountain species among whom Coeloglossum viride (L.) Hartm., Galeobdolon montanum Pers. ex Rchb., Parnassia palustris L., Primula elatior (L.) Grufbg., Traunsteinera globosa (L.) Rchb.are new. We can...

A revision of all data found under the genus name Cytisus in the 229 articles and travel notes, and 86 herbarium specimens of Pál Kitaibel (1757–1817), mostly from the Carpathian Basin, is given. The material discussed contains the species described by Kitaibel as well as several other taxa described later by him, but published in other works. A ne...

During a taxonomic revision on the higher plant collection of Ferdinand Schur (1799–1878), deposited in Lviv (Herbarium of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (LW)), more than 100 specimens of Cytisus were identified and annotated with the names used by Schur in his publications or on his specimens. In addition, 10 lectotypes of taxa, de-scribe...