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FIGURE 16.2
The climadiagram of the region of hazelnut introduction.
Nowadays, “Sofi yivka” is not only the “Historical garden” but also the scientifi c
research institution of the National academy of Science of Ukraine, the center of intro-
duction, mobilization, and acclimatization of plant biodiversity in the Right bank For-
est Steppe zone of Ukraine, the teaching and educational base, the tourist's institution,
and the museum of landscaping art. Nearly 3,500 species, forms, sorts, and hybrids of
trees and grassy plants are collected here, including the collection of the genus
Corylus
L. [5-7].
16.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The genus
Corylus
L. (hazelnut) is a member of the family
Betulaceae
S.F. Gray,
subfamily
Coryloideae
[8]. Some time earlier, a lot of authors considered it reasonable
to mark out
Coryloideae
as an independent family
Corylaceae
Mirb. [9, 10], and we
also supported this opinion [1], taking into consideration the morphological marks and
well-known suggestion as for the removal of genera
Carpinus
,
Corylus
, and
Ostrya
from
Betulaceae
, so that to consolidate them in the family
Corylaceae
[11]. Scientists
from Cornell University (USA) and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew (Great Britain)
wrote a common monograph and described botanical names and synonyms of tribes
and genera
Magnoliidae
; the name
Corylaceae
is given as one of the synonyms of
Betulaceae
[12].
At the joint catalogue The Plant List by the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and
Missouri Botanical by 2010 [13], 138 Latin names for the representatives of the genus
Corylus
are indicated: 26 were recognized (17 specifi c and 9 interspecifi c taxons). On
July 2011, 134 names (74 species and 60 interspecifi c taxons), so as 27 recognized
names (17 specifi c and 10 interspecifi c taxons) were included in the Catalogue Royal
Botanical Gardens Kew, Richmond, Surrey [14].
At the beginning of 2011, the collection of NDP “Sofi yivka” counted 33 taxons of
the genus
Corylus
[15], 17 of which are in the class of species.
Having analyzed the
collection according to the morphological features, we cleared up that only 11 species
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