Abstract
AbstractSenecio fontanicolais endemic to black-bog-rush fens of southern Austria, northwestern Slovenia and north-eastern Italy. It is characterized by oblanceolate leaves, a low number of supplementary bracts and glabrous achenes and it grows in marshy spring areas, fens and reed beds, between elevations from 20 to 850 m. The species was never described with molecular traits and during the last decades,S. fontanicolashowed a dramatic decline due to land reclamation for agriculture. Therefore, the present study aims to characterizeS. fontanicolausing the molecular barcoding technique and to updated its distribution to propose a global risk category for the species, based on IUCN criteria. The three molecular markers used in this study (trnH-psbA,rbcL, and ITS) clearly distinguishedS. fontanicolafromS. doria.s.s. and the revised distribution allowed the definition of the conservation status of the species, that isEndangered-EN B2ab(i, ii, iii, iv) following the B criterion of the IUCN guidelines.
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