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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/arphapreprints.e139912</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>Plantae</subject>
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          <subject>Biodiversity &amp; Conservation</subject>
          <subject>Biogeography</subject>
          <subject>Systematics</subject>
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        <article-title>An updated inventory of the vascular flora of the Island of Montecristo (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy)</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Siccardi</surname>
            <given-names>Eugenia</given-names>
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          <email xlink:type="simple">eugenia.siccardi@unifi.it</email>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ferretti</surname>
            <given-names>Giulio</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Foggi</surname>
            <given-names>Bruno</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6451-4025</uri>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Mugnai</surname>
            <given-names>Michele</given-names>
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          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-2920</uri>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>bardaro</surname>
            <given-names>Maria Rosaria Pasqualina</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Landi</surname>
            <given-names>Marco</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Quilghini</surname>
            <given-names>Giovanni</given-names>
          </name>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zoccola</surname>
            <given-names>Antonio</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lazzaro</surname>
            <given-names>Lorenzo</given-names>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Florence, Florence, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Florence</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Florence</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Botanical Garden "Giardino dei Semplici", Florence, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Botanical Garden "Giardino dei Semplici"</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Florence</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Department of Biology, University of Florence</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Firenze</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Florence, Firenze, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Florence</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Firenze</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A5">
        <label>5</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples Federico II, 80137, Naples, Italy, Naples, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples Federico II, 80137, Naples, Italy</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Naples</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A6">
        <label>6</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Carabinieri Biodiversity Department, Siena, Via Cassia Nord 7, I-53100, Siena, Italy, Siena, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Carabinieri Biodiversity Department, Siena, Via Cassia Nord 7, I-53100, Siena, Italy</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Siena</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A7">
        <label>7</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Carabinieri Biodiversity Department, Follonica, Via E. Bicocchi 2, I-58022, Grosseto, Italy, Follonica, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Carabinieri Biodiversity Department, Follonica, Via E. Bicocchi 2, I-58022, Grosseto, Italy</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Follonica</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A8">
        <label>8</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Carabinieri Biodiversity Department, Pratovecchio, Via Dante Alighieri 41, I-52015, Arezzo, Italy, Arezzo, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Carabinieri Biodiversity Department, Pratovecchio, Via Dante Alighieri 41, I-52015, Arezzo, Italy</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Arezzo</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Eugenia Siccardi (<email xlink:type="simple">eugenia.siccardi@unifi.it</email>).</p>
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          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>22</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Eugenia Siccardi, Giulio Ferretti, Bruno Foggi, Michele Mugnai, Maria Rosaria Pasqualina bardaro, Marco Landi, Giovanni Quilghini, Antonio Zoccola, Lorenzo Lazzaro</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>We present an updated list of the vascular flora of the island of Montecristo (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy), which was last described in 1976 by Paoli and Romagnoli. The inventory has been updated based on a comprehensive bibliographical review of floristic floras and previous inventories, together with the revision of herbarium specimens already preserved in Tuscan herbaria and the implementation of survey campaigns carried out on the island between 2011 and 2024. The inventory counts 585 specific and subspecific taxa currently present on the island (including 518 spontaneous entities and 67 cultivated ones), the highest number of species ever recorded on the island. Since 2000, 71 new species have been confirmed, 43 of which are new to Montecristo Island. In addition, 28 species have been re-confirmed since the last records in 1903 or 1864. We excluded 14 taxa, 8 of which were the result of a revision of the herbarium material, which led to the correction of previous erroneous determinations or due to the description of new taxa, such as <italic>Saxifraga montis-christi </italic>Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini &amp; Viciani. The characterisation of the flora of Montecristo is consistent with the Mediterranean climate of the island in terms of life forms and chorotypes. The analysis showed that the main geographical distribution elements are Eurosiberian-Mediterranean and Mediterranean species, while the predominant life form is the therophyte. From a floristic point of view, Montecristo is the poorest island in terms of species and has the highest amount of endemism in relation to its area.</p>
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