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Oxybasis rubra

(L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Tracheophyta » Caryophyllales » Amaranthaceae » Oxybasis rubra
Ηabitat
J5 Artificial (waters)
Global distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, England, Bulgaria, ?Corsica, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, W-, N-, C- & E-European Russia, Crimea, Belarus, Ukraine, Afghanistan (Balkh, Helmand, Kabul), Northern Caucasus, Georgia [Caucasus], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Siberia (W-Siberia, C-Siberia), Russian Far East, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Egypt (Nile Delta), Iran (E-Iran, NE-Iran: Mts., Iranian Aserbaijan, S-Iran), Israel (Rift Valley), Lebanon (Antilebanon), Sinai peninsula (N-Sinai), Syria (C-Syrian Desert), ?Azores, Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, N.W.T., Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), Alaska, USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming) 130052 0

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Habitat detail

"+ Division 2: Agridia reservoir, 7.10.2016, Y. Christofides, conf. R. Hand (B). + Division 3: Akrounta, W margin of Germasogeia reservoir, level of conspicuous road bend, dry bottom of reservoir, a few m above water level, alt. 67 m, 20.6.2018, R. Hand 9036 (B); ibid., 24.12.2018, R. Hand 9207 (B). First records for Cyprus. C. rubrum belongs to a group of hygrophilous taxa and water plants that have colonised the reservoirs of Cyprus in recent decades. It appears rather probable that it was introduced by migrating or wintering waterbirds. The species is known to occur in most parts of Europe and from SW Asia to Siberia as well as in parts of N America; it is rather rare in the Mediterranean region (Uotila 2001). Currently, to be classified as non-invasive alien" (Hand 2019).

Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Naturalized non-invasive.

First detection year
2016
Impacts
Neutral
Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant on animals (except parasites) – Con Anim
Other notes

as Chenopodium rubrum in Flora of Cyprus (Hand et al. 2011-).

References

Hand R (2019) Further noteworthy records of vascular plants in Cyprus (1997–2018) and some status clarifications. Cypricola 12: 1-17.

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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