Image from GBIF · CC BY-NC-SA
Species
Least ConcernItalian alder
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFagales
- FamilyBetulaceae
Native toCorse
Observations2,651
Observations recorded17,711
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 378
- With media
- 318
- Family
- Betulaceae
- Collections
- RSA, OBI, NY, SBBG, CDA, MEL
- Recorded in
- United States, Italy, France, Netherlands, Poland, Norway
Wikidata facts
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Alnus cordata
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Alnus cordata
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons gallery
- Alnus cordata
- taxon common name
- 意大利桤木
- short name
- A. cordata
- foliage type
- deciduous plant
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Alnus cordata, the Italian alder, is a tree or shrub species belonging to the family Betulaceae, and native to the southern Apennine Mountains (Campania, Basilicata and Calabria, mainly on western mountain sides) and the north-eastern mountains of Corsica. It has been introduced in Sicily, Sardinia, and more recently in Central-Northern Italy, other European countries (France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom) and extra-European countries (Chile, New Zealand), where it has become naturalised.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alnus cordata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.