"First record for Cyprus. As in many other species restricted to dams that have been constructed in the last decades, probably introduced and to be classified as a casual. Polygonum arenarium is known to occur in several neighbouring countries (for its taxonomy see also Snogerup & Snogerup 1997). + Div. 6: Magglis dam Lefkosia, margins of the dam, c. 200 m, 9.6.1999, Christodoulou in Hadjikyriakou 4628 (duplicate CYP 4128)" (Hand 2009).