supported by the“Progetto di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale”(PRIN)“PLAN.T.S.2.0-towards a renaissance of PLANt Taxonomy and Systematics”led by the University of Pisa,under the grant number 2017JW4HZK(Principal Investigator:Lorenzo Peruzzi),by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project UIP-2017-05-2882(AmphiAdriPlant);the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation and the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education(Austria-Croatia bi-lateral project“HR17/2020”to Božo Frajman).
European wild carnations(Dianthus)are represented by a high number of taxa organized in unresolved taxonomies.In particular,taxa belonging to the Dianthus virgineus L.complex in the Central Mediterranean have been del...