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Xanthium orientale italicum

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Tracheophyta » Asterales » Asteraceae » Xanthium orientale italicum
Common name (English)
Rough cocklebur
Ηabitat
B1 Coastal Sand
I1 Arable
J5 Artificial (waters)
X10 Mixed landscapes
Global distribution

France (I), Portugal (I), Spain (I), Baleares (I) (Mallorca (I), Menorca (I)), Gibraltar (I), Belgium (I), Germany (I), Switzerland (I), Austria (I), Monaco (I), Italy (I), Corsica (I), Sardinia (I), Sicily (I), Slovakia (I), Hungary (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Bosnia & Hercegovina (I), Serbia & Kosovo (I), Montenegro (I), Macedonia (I), Albania (I), Romania (I), Bulgaria (I), Greece (I), Crete (I), European Turkey (I), Azores (I) (Faial (I), Flores Isl. (I), Graciosa (I), Sao Miguel (I), Sta. Maria (I), Terceira (I)), Madeira (I), Canary Isl. (I) (Fuerteventura (I), Tenerife (I)), Morocco (I), Algeria (I), Tunisia (I), Libya (I), East Aegaean Isl. (I), Rhodos (I), Anatolia (I), Lebanon (I), Israel/Jord. (I), Israel (I), Egypt (I), Sinai peninsula (I), Estonia (I), Belarus (I), Moldova (I), Ukraine (I), Crimea (I), European Russia (I), Northern Caucasus (I), Georgia [Caucasus] (I), Armenia (I), Azerbaijan (I), Korea (I), Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, La Pampa, Mendoza, Misiones, Rio Negro, Salta, Santa Fe, San Juan), S-Brazil (Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Chile (Atacama, Coquimbo, Maule, Bio Bio, Reg. Metropolitana), Uruguay (Canelones, Cerro Largo, Montevideo, Paysandu, Rio Negro, Soriano), Mexico (Tamaulipas) 188900 0

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Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Waste and cultivated ground, irrigation ditches & seashores, sea-level to 5000' - amongst the sites listed, one is for Akhelia in Division 3. 

First detection year
1930
Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant on animals (except parasites) – Con Anim
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Seed contaminant – Seed
Pathway detail

CBD pathways per EASIN (2023).

References

Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.

EASIN (2023) European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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

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