Ivana Stevanoski

• PhD
• Research Assistant at University of Belgrade

Nedeljko Kosanin was one of the most important Serbian botanists from the beginning of the 20th Century. He dedicated most of his life to investigate the flora of Southern Serbia as well as Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Since he was working at the Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden in Belgrade, the majority of his col...

This paper presents new records and noteworthy data on the following taxa in SE Europe and adjacent regions: diatoms Discostella asterocostata and Stephanodiscus hantzschii f. tenuis, red alga Bangia atropurpurea, green alga Ulva pilifera, saprotro-phic fungi Didymella vitalbina and Phragmotrichum rivoclarinum, mosses Buxbau-mia aphylla, Sphagnum d...

Although the Balkan Peninsula belongs to the most mountainous regions of Europe, phylogeographic structure of its alpine flora remains insufficiently understood, especially for species distributed both in the western and eastern parts of the Peninsula. We analyzed Campanula orbelica , a Balkan endemic typical of high-mountain siliceous grasslands,...

Due to habitat loss or changes in management, populations of Adenophora liliifolia (L.) A. DC. in Europe are increasingly endangered. Therefore, this plant has the status of an endangered or extremely endangered species in most European countries. It is defined as a "target species" or a "species of European concern" whose conservation requires des...

Teucrium montanum is a species widely distributed in Europe, occurring also in North Africa and Asia Minor. Because of its wide distribution and high morphological variability, many taxa related to T. montanum have been described. In this paper we discuss and lectotypify the following six names of taxa described or reported for the Balkan Peninsula...

This paper presents new records and noteworthy data on the following taxa in SE Europe and adjacent regions: parasitic fungus Antherospora hortensis, saprotrophic fungi Loweomyces fractipes and Pholiota henningsii, stonewort Chara canescens, mosses Grimmia caespiticia and Rhodobryum ontariense, fern Woodsia alpina, monocots Aegilops triuncialis, Ep...

Southern European mountain ranges have long been recognized as important hotspots of genetic diversity and areas of high endemism. Reflecting the geographical complexity of these mountain ranges, many European high-mountain species exhibit disjunctions on a variety of geographical scales. One of the long-neglected, poorly investigated and unresolve...

The paper propose nine new nomenclature combinations and indicate eight new synonyms. There are 12 taxa (species and subspecies) of vascular flora which are new for the flora of Serbia (of which nine are autochthonous and three allochtonous plants). An old or unreliable literature records for three autochthonous and one allochthonous plant in the f...

The Mediterranean region is one of the 25 biodiversity hotspots, with several species distributed on both sides of the Adriatic Sea, i.e. on the Apennine and the Balkan Peninsulas. One of these is Euphorbia spinosa, distributed in the coastal regions of the Ligurian, Tyrrhenian, Ionian and Adriatic Seas, whereas its closest relative, E. glabriflora...

The present paper gives new records of the following taxa in SE Europe and adjacent regions, together with significant data pertaining to them: the pathogenic fungus Arthrocladiella mougeotii; the liverwort Riccia frostii; the mosses Campylopus fragilis, C. introflexus and Tomentypnum nitens; the fern Allosorus persicus; the monocots Allium atropur...

Campanula versicolor is a constituent of the Campanula pyramidalis complex, distributed in the central and southern Balkan Peninsula with a small disjunct range in SE Italy. The taxonomy of the broadly defined C. versicolor was controversial in the past due to high morphological variability of the populations across the range. We used microsatellit...

As a European endemic restricted to a few European countries, Geum bulgaricum is here treated as a “target species” or “species of European concern”. Although of great international significance, its distribution is insufficiently known. Based on several years of field studies and analyses of herbarium and literature data, we have determined that G...

Campanula versicolor is a member of the Campanula pyramidalis complex. It is distributed in the southern Balkan Peninsula, with a small disjunct range in SE Italy (Puglia and Basilicata administrative regions). Due to its high morphological variability, 17 taxa have been described (at specific and infraspecific level). However, the taxonomic status...

Old literature data together with recent field research were combined in order to present bryophyte checklist of the Sutjeska National Park. A total of 261 taxa were found within the park area, out of which 40 are liverwort and 221 moss taxa. Bearing in mind a huge lack of bryological research in Bosnia and Herzegovina during last decades, 41 speci...

We reconstructed the relationships among populations of Campanula secundiflora s.l. and closely related and geographically close populations of C. austroadriatica and C. versicolor. Based on analyses of microsatellite DNA data, the investigated populations have high overall genetic diversity and abundant allelic variation over seven investigated lo...

Campanula versicolor Andrews is one of the constituents of the Campanula pyramidalis species complex, along with C. pyramidalis L., C. austroadriatica D.Lakušić & Kovačić and C. secundiflora Vis. & Pančić. It is mostly distributed in the southern parts of the Balkan Peninsula: in Greece, Albania and Macedonia, to Kosovo in the north and Mt Konjevsk...

Microsatellite markers were identified and characterized to study the genetic diversity and structure, conservation status, taxonomy, and biogeography of subspecific taxa and populations of Campanula pyramidalis (Campanulaceae). Eleven microsatellite markers were developed from genomic libraries enriched for di- and trinucleotide repeats. A total o...

In this paper we provide the lectotypification of Campanula secundiflora, the Tertiary relict and paleostenoendemic species described by Josif Pančić and Roberto de Visiani in the first work they published jointly: Plantae serbicae rariores aut novae – Decas I (1862). All studied material is deposited in BEOU and PAD herbarium collections. The spec...

During the past few years, the isophylloid Campanula pyramidalis complex has been the subject of studies aimed at an improved understanding of the relationships within it. The center of distribution of the C. pyramidalis complex is in the Balkan Penin-sula with some smaller parts of the area located in the south Apennines. Although 21 taxa of the C...

The Balkan paleo-endemic species C. secundiflora Vis. & Pančić belongs to the Campanula pyramidalis complex which also includes closely related and morphologically similar species: C. pyramidalis L., C. versicolor Andrew. and C. austroadriatica D. Lakušić & Kovačić ). Center of the distribution of this complex is on the Balkan Peninsula while some...