La biodiversitat de les plantes vasculars als Països Catalans

Abstract

This paper presents a brief synthesis of published or ongoing milestones and the most recent data on the diversity of vascular plants in the Catalan-speaking territories, aiming to provide a current snapshot that could be useful for the design of conservation policies and future research addressing identified gaps. In the Iberian-Balearic territories, which form the greater part of the area considered here, the current vascular flora includes 4,558 taxa in Catalonia, 3,325 in the Valencian Community, 2,187 in the Balearic Islands, and 1,596 in Andorra, while Alghero, the only Catalan-speaking territory geographically distant from the others, includes 830 taxa. In the future, it would be advisable to carry out new studies to update the existing data as well as aspects of no- menclature and taxonomy, allowing the development of a unique and easily accessible list of taxa from all the Catalan-speaking territories