Iberian Baetic endemic flora and the implications for a conservation policy Pérez García, Francisco Javier Medina-Cazorla, José Miguel Martínez Hernández, Fabián Garrido-Becerra, Juan Antonio Mendoza Fernández, Antonio Jesús Salmerón Sánchez, Esteban Mota Poveda, Juan Francisco Endemic flora Conservation policy Iberian Peninsula Much of this research was financed by the project “Edaphic and nutritional profile of the vegetation and flora growing on dolomite substrates 5468 in the Baetic Ranges and relationships with other environments rich in magnesium (EU priority habitats)” granted by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (CGL2007-63563) and by the excellence project Conservación de la diversidad genética y florística de los afloramientos de yeso en Andalucía: el reto del desarrollo sostenible en un archipiélago edáfico explotado por la minería, granted by the Consejería de Economía, Innovación y Ciencia of the Junta de Andalucía (P07-RNM-0321). The authors appreciate being able to consult the data from the project Estudios sobre Flora andaluza, provided by the Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucía. The contribution of two of the authors (FJPG and JAGB) was financed by the labour recruitment programmes for support technicians in research and development centres (technical support staff and Torres Quevedo PQT 10 subprogramme) of Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, for the development of the Germplasm Collection of the University of Almería (GERMHUAL), and for the promotion and implementation of the research in industry. The Baetic ranges in the Iberian Peninsula are extremely rich and outstanding in biological terms. Based on the existing literature, herbarium sheets and our own field research, we provide a checklist of the endemic flora growing in the Baetic chorological province. The checklist includes 418 taxa belonging to 43 families, with the species pool concentrated within large families. The highest number of endemic species is recorded in the altitudinal range of 1300–1500 m a.s.l. Hemicryptophytes represent the most frequent life form (45.5%). Conservation priorities should concentrate on non-woody life forms (particularly on hemicryptophytes), and on high mountain areas. Most of the taxa can be ascribed to serial shrublands (36.87%), or rock- or scree-dwelling formations (26.25%), with climactic forest formations playing a minor role (3.24%). This successional position has important implications for conservation programmes. Therefore, a clear distinction should be made between serial or plagioclimactic formations (e.g. dolomite thyme-scrub communities) and degraded communities of little interest for the preservation of biodiversity (e.g. synanthropic vegetation). Astragalus nevadensis subsp. andresmolinae (Díez-Garretas & Asensi) Mota & F.J. Pérez-García is proposed as a new combination. 2026-02-17T10:00:03Z 2026-02-17T10:00:03Z 2012-04-26 journal article Pérez-García F.J., Medina-Cazorla J.M., Martínez-Hernández F., Garrido-Becerra J.A., Mendoza-Fernández A.J., Salmerón-Sánchez E., Mota J.F. (2012) Iberian Baetic endemic flora and the implications for a conservation policy. Annales Botanici Fennici, 49 (1-2), pp. 43 - 54. DOI: 10.5735/085.049.0106 0003-3847 1797-2442 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111076 10.5735/085.049.0106 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Finnish Zoological Botanical Publishing Board