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1848. Melissa officinalis subsp. altissima (Sm.) Arcang., Comp. Fl. Ital. ed. 2: 427 (1894)
[Bas. Melissa altissima Sm. in Sibth. & Sm., Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 423 (1809); Melissa
romana Mill.]
Uncultivated shady ground, hedges. – Sicilia (Gussone 1844); Pantano Catania e Simeto fino a
Paternò, Pantani Capo Passero (Lopriore 1900); M. S. Giuliano e M. Cofano (Ponzo 1900);
Ficuzza, Castelbuono (Lojacono 1904); Siracusa (Zodda 1929); Cassibile (Ferro & Di Benedetto
1979); Cava d’Ispica, Valle dell’Anapo (Brullo & al. 1993 a); Fiume Oreto (Traina & Marcenò
2001). – NC.
* Satureja hortensis L., Sp. Pl.: 568 (1753)
Uncultivated dry ground, walls on limestone. – Reported for Sicily by Pignatti (1982), but
condidered absent by Fl. Europ. 3: 165 (1972). Not even reported by major Sicilian and
Italian Flora! And absent from Sicilian erbaria (PAL, CAT, MS)! To be excluded from
Sicilian flora.
1849. Acinos alpinus (L.) Moench, Methodus: 407 (1794) subsp. alpinus
Mountain pastures. – Sicilia settentrionale (Pignatti 1982); M. Rose (Raimondo & al. 2004). –
C.

1850. Acinos alpinus subsp. meridionalis (Nyman) P. W. Ball [Bas. Calamintha meridio-
nalis Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur.: 589 (1881); Satureja alpina (L.) Scheele subsp. meri-
dionalis (Nyman) Greuter e Burdet; Calamintha nebrodensis A. Kern. & Strobl; Acinos
granatensis (Boiss. & Reut.) Pereda Saez subsp. aetnensis (Strobl) Pignatti]
Screes, debris, mainly on siliceous and lava rocks. – Nicolosi, Serrapizzuta, Valcalanna, Valle del
Bove, Milo, Bosco Cerrita, Cantoniera, tra Bronte e Maletto, Pizzuta (Lojacono 1904); ?D:
Monti Sicani: M. Rose, M. Pernice (Marcenò & al. 1985), perhaps referable to to A. alpinus var.
nebrodensis. – NC.
* Acinos minae (Lojac.) Giardina & Raimondo comb. nov. [ Bas. Calamintha minae
(“minaae”) Lojac., Fl. Sicul. 2(2): 220 (1904)].
Mountain pastures and stony ground on carbonate and silicious ground. Reported by Fl.
Europ. 3: 166 (1972), but never reported by previous au-thors. Probably misidentified by
Gussone with A. alpinus subsp. alpinus var. nebrodensis or with Calamintha nepeta (L.)
Savi – Northern mountains of Sicily, not occurring in the Aetna. – ?R.

1851. Calamintha grandiflora (L.) Moench, Methodus: 408 (1794) [Bas. Melissa grandi-
flora L., Sp. Pl.: 592 (1753); Thymus grandiflorus Scop.]
Broadleaf woods, mainly beech-woods. – Boschi di Caronia (Tineo) (Gussone 1834); Mistretta
bosco Amedda (Lojacono 1887 b); Valdemone, Monte Soro (Lojacono 1904). – R.

1852. Calamintha ascendens Jord., Obs. Pl. Nouv. 4: 18 (1846) [Calamintha sylvatica
Bromf. in Phytologist 2: 49 (1845) subsp. ascendens (Jord.) P. W. Ball in Bot. J. Linn.
Soc. 65: 346 (1972); C. menthaefolia auct. non Host; Thymus calamintha Guss. (1828);
C. spicata Lojac. (1904)]
Woods, hedges, uncultivated land. – Palermo, M. Gallo a Spartivento, Valdemone,
Madonie, S. Guglielmo, Piazza, Mineo (Lojacono 1904); Valloni dei Nebrodi a
Tortorici, V.ne Calanna, C.da Quararà, Cannata, C.da Acquasanta, Bosco del Flascio,
Strada tra Floresta e Maniaci, Faggete di Cutò sul versante tirrenico (Raimondo & al.
1994). – R.