@article{Iamonico_Wolf_Sciuto_Sfriso_Argenti_2022, title={Blitum venetum (Chenopodiaceae), a new species from north-eastern Dolomites (Italian Eastern Alps)}, volume={81}, url={https://www.abc.botanic.hr/index.php/abc/article/view/3526}, DOI={10.37427/botcro-2022-009}, abstractNote={<p>A new species of <em>Blitum</em>β€”<em>Blitum venetum </em>Iamonico, Argenti, Sciuto & Wolf β€”is described from the Dolomites massif (North-Eastern Italy) on the basis of molecular analyses (nuclear ITS and plastid <em>trn</em>L-F regions) and morphological investigation. The new species is similar to <em>B. bonus-henricus</em> and <em>B. californicum</em>, but it differs from these taxa by characters of leaves (width, hairiness, and margins), inflorescence (occurrence of bracts), perianth segments (colour) and seeds (diameter, colour, and seed ornamentation). Moreover, in phylogenetic reconstructions <em>B. venetum</em> results clearly separated from the other species of the genus; this finding was further strengthened by the the nucleotide divergences calculated between the sequence of the type specimen and other <em>Blitum</em> taxa, which are comparable with the interspecific divergences calculated inside this genus.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Acta Botanica Croatica}, author={Iamonico, Duilio and Wolf, Marion and Sciuto, Katia and Sfriso, Adriano and Argenti, Carlo}, year={2022}, month={Sep.}, pages={121–128} }