Exotic species in the Erbario Estense: new plants from the world to sixteenth-century Italy

IF 2.1 4区综合性期刊 Q2 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche E Naturali Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI:10.1007/s12210-024-01222-3

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Renaissance herbaria may provide precious information on exotic plants known or even introduced in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD. In the Erbario Estense, preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Modena (northern Italy), there are 14 species considered as allochthonous neophytes or not present in the Italian flora. First, we accurately verified the taxa identification; then, we searched for the same species in the other coeval Italian Renaissance herbaria and collected the information present in the written sources of the second half of the 1500s (concerning, above all, the use of these species as medicinal plants); finally, we paid attention to their current uses in ethnobotanical tradition and their market value. For 12 taxa, we could confirm the former identification; whereas for 2, we came to a different conclusion; the comparison with other Renaissance herbaria, particularly Aldrovandi’s, greatly helped this evaluation process. The species treated here are not placed according to a precise order nor do they have particular medicinal values in common: probably, the specimens were simply added to the existing nucleus, as the species were known or were proven to be rather useful. We shall be able to gain further knowledge when it shall be possible to study all the remaining species. In any case, the Erbario Estense is an important testimony for sixteenth-century botany, that contains some of the most ancient specimens of exotic species that are of common use in large parts of the world today.

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埃尔巴里奥岛的外来物种：十六世纪意大利的世界新植物

摘要文艺复兴时期的标本馆可以提供有关公元 15 世纪和 16 世纪意大利已知甚至引进的外来植物的珍贵信息。在保存于摩德纳国家档案馆（意大利北部）的 Erbario Estense 中，有 14 个物种被认为是外来的新物种，或者是意大利植物区系中没有的物种。首先，我们对分类群进行了准确的鉴定；然后，我们在其他同时期的意大利文艺复兴时期植物标本馆中寻找相同的物种，并收集 15 世纪下半叶书面资料中的信息（主要涉及这些物种作为药用植物的用途）；最后，我们关注了这些物种在民族植物学传统中的当前用途及其市场价值。对于其中的 12 个分类群，我们确认了前者的鉴定结果；而对于其中的 2 个分类群，我们得出了不同的结论；与文艺复兴时期的其他标本馆（尤其是阿尔德罗万迪标本馆）进行比较极大地帮助了这一评估过程。这里介绍的物种并没有按照精确的顺序排列，也没有共同的特殊药用价值：这些标本可能只是被添加到现有的核心中，因为这些物种是已知的或被证明是相当有用的。当有可能对所有剩余物种进行研究时，我们就能获得更多知识。无论如何，Erbario Estense 是十六世纪植物学的重要见证，其中包含一些最古老的外来物种标本，而这些物种在当今世界的大部分地区都很常见。图表摘要

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Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche E Naturali MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES-

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期刊介绍： Rendiconti is the interdisciplinary scientific journal of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Italian National Academy, situated in Rome, which publishes original articles in the fi elds of geosciences, envi ronmental sciences, and biological and biomedi cal sciences. Particular interest is accorded to papers dealing with modern trends in the natural sciences, with interdisciplinary relationships and with the roots and historical development of these disciplines.