Celtis australis
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Alien: Naturalized non-invasive.
By roadsides, often near old churches or monasteries; generally planted but reproducing itself naturally; 1000-4000' - listed sites are all in Divisions 1 & 2. Newly recorded as adventive and invading natural habitats, mainly forests (and margins of rivers and fields) - scattered locations.
Already present during the times of the Ottoman empire (1500-1878) (Georgiades 1995).
also as Celtis caucasica Willd. in Tsintides et al. (2002).
Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.
Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.
Hadjikyriakou G, Hadjisterkotis E (2002) The adventive plants of Cyprus with new records of invasive species. Zeitschrift fur Jagdwissenschaft 48: 59–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02192393
Tsintides T, Hadjikyriakou GN, Christodoulou CS (2002) Trees and shrubs in Cyprus. Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis—Cyprus Forest Association, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Hadjikyriakou G (2013) Contribution to the study of the flora of Cyprus 16 [Συμβολή στη μελέτη της χλωρίδας της Κύπρου 16]. Dasoponos 54: 7-10.