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Data about floristic composition of an olive plantation in traditional use on the lonian cost of Calabria (South Italy) are presented. The area under study consist of 14 Ha, the basic rocks are granodiorits. Region belongs to Meso-Mediterranean thermoclimatic belt The plantation was created in 1920s and since 1986 the mai n agricultural applied technique are pruning and buming of cut branches, ploughing and collecting fruits using traditional techniques and mechanistic, without use of any chemicals. The flora under study consists of 274 species and subspecies. Taxonomic spectra show dominance of Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Poaceae to which families belongs almost half of the species. The most of the species are Therophytes followed by Hemycriptophytes and Geophytes. Phanerophytes are presented in hedges by Mediterranean shrubs. The most of the species have Mediterranean and Sub-Mediterranean distribution and together with Cosmopolits (s.i.) form more then 60%.