A note on some alien species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) in Belgium

An adventive Hydrocotyle (Pennywort) that has been established in lawns inthe Antwerp Zoo since the 1980s appears to belong to H. sibthorpioides, not to H. novae-zelandiaeas originally assumed. A second Belgian locality was recently discovered in Knokke.A few years ago, a population of H. verticillata has furthermore been found in Bredene. Thisis an aggressive, subtropical lookalike of native H. vulgaris. Diagnostic features of both H.sibthorpioides and H. verticillata are briefly discussed and both are depicted. A key for theidentification of the species currently found in Belgium is presente... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Verloove, Filip
Heyneman, Geert
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides / Hydrocotyle verticillata / Belgium / Introduced species
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28556568
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4541038

An adventive Hydrocotyle (Pennywort) that has been established in lawns inthe Antwerp Zoo since the 1980s appears to belong to H. sibthorpioides, not to H. novae-zelandiaeas originally assumed. A second Belgian locality was recently discovered in Knokke.A few years ago, a population of H. verticillata has furthermore been found in Bredene. Thisis an aggressive, subtropical lookalike of native H. vulgaris. Diagnostic features of both H.sibthorpioides and H. verticillata are briefly discussed and both are depicted. A key for theidentification of the species currently found in Belgium is presented.