Changes and additions to the Flora of Greece web (FoG web)
September-October 2018
Teucrium lamiifolium d' Urv. subsp. lamiifolium : A taxon previously believed to be endemic to Bulgaria and Turkey (Bazos & Salatellis in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)). Teucrium lamiifolium d' Urv. : New to Greece (Bazos & Salatellis in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)). Alkanna macrosiphon Boiss. & Heldr. : Formely considered to be an Anatolian endemic (Greuter & Karl in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)). Anchusa pusilla Guşul : New to Greece (Greuter & Karl in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)); native also to Turkey-in-Europe and N Anatolia. Bidens frondosa L. : This autumnal flowering xenophyte has likely become invasive in N Greece (Raus & Willing in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)). Otospermum glabrum (Lag.) Willk. : Only one record in Peloponissos (Vogt & Willing in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)); naturalization status in Greece is uncertain for this species native to W Mediterranean. Leontodon albanicus (F.K.Mey.) F. Conti : A taxon raised to species rank and reported as new to Greece (Conti 2018). Senecio inaequidens DC. : Only one record in NC (Willing & Raus in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015); a xenophyte highly invasive and fully established in NW and C Europe. Poa stiriaca Dörfl. : A species formely known from E and C Europe, extending to the South as far as Montenegro; the record from Greece (Dimitrov & Vutov in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 34)) apparently shows a disjunct distribution of the species. Asperula taurina L. subsp. taurina : New to Greece (Zografidis 2017). Asperula taurina subsp. leucanthera (G.Beck) Hayek : There are two confirmed records by Goulimis from 1960 for this taxon kept in ATH (Zografidis 2017). Asperula taurina L. : Confirmed for Greece (Zografidis 2017) Verbascum auriculatum Sm.: This name had long been erroneously regarded a synonym of V. mucronatum Lam. However, V. auriculatum is in fact conspecific with V. propontideum Murb., which represents a younger synonym (Zografidis 2018). Carex buekii Wimm. : New to Greece (Koopman et al, 2018). Lilium jankae A. Kern. : A member of the L. carniolicum W. D. J. Koch group, closely allied to L. albanicum Griseb. A sole record from Mt Titaros from 1976 represents clearly the species; other collections from N Greece are more or less intermediate with L. albanicum (Strid in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 33)). Tulipa rhodopea (Velen.) Velen. : A taxon of rather uncertain status previously believed to be endemic to a small area in SW Bulgaria (Strid in Raab-Straube & Raus 2015 (No. 33)). Dianthus aridus Griseb. ex Janka : New to Greece; restricted to NE Greece and S and SE Bulgaria (Zarkos et al. in Vladimirov et al. 2018).
1 Phelipanche orientalis (Beck) Soják : A poorly known taxon, new to Greece. It may be conspecific with Phelipanche libanotica (Boiss.) Soják. The known hosts are Rosaceae (Rätzel et al, in Raab-Straube & Raus 2018 (No. 38)). Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. : A single record from Chalkidiki (NE) corresponds to spreading individuals of a former plantation; naturalization status is uncertain (Jovanović & Raus in Raab-Straube & Raus 2018 (No. 38)). Aeschynomene indica L. : A tropical species of Asian origin, perennial to over-wintering annual herb to ca. 1 m tall. Introduced as a weed of rice fields, now well-established and locally naturalized, observed since 2010 in cultivated fields on alluvial deposits along the Strymonas river. Actually, it is not known to occur elsewhere in the Euro+Med area. Aeschynomene rudis Benth. : A xenophyte originating from Mexico to S America, now a well-established weed in rice fields and rotating maize fields along the Strymonas river. According to local growers, inadvertently introduced from c. 2000 onwards, possibly as a contaminant of crop seed. Actually, it is not known to occur elsewhere in the Euro+Med area. Petrorhagia laconica Trigas, Kalpoutz. & Kougioum. : A new species related to the widespread P. saxifraga and the Greek endemic P. gramminea (Trigas et al. 2018). Klasea cretica (Turrill) Holub : Material from Peloponissos has been found to correspond to K. moreana (Greuter 2012). Klasea moreana Greuter: This distinct taxon has been confused with K. cretica in literature (e.g. Plant Red Databook for Greece (Phitos et al. 2009)) (Greuter 2012). Pyrola media Sw. : New record of the species in NC Greece; found and documented by Thomas Giannakis at the oro-mediterranean wet meadows of Mt Tzena, 15.7.2017. Rotala ramosior (L.) Koehne : New record for NE Greece. The species was found and documented by Thomas Giannakis in running water at the bridge of river Strymon, Strymoniko, 4.9.2016. Sicyos ungulatus L. : New for Greece. Currently known from NE (Giannopolitis 2007, Tsialtas 2015, Giannakis 2016) and NC Greece (Giannakis 2018) Filago minima (Sm.) Pers. : New for Kiklades (Biel & Kit Tan in Vladimirov et al 2018) Parietaria officinalis L. : New for Kiklades (Biel & Kit Tan in Vladimirov et al 2018) Arum maculatum L. : New for Kiklades (Biel & Kit Tan in Vladimirov et al 2018) Nonea echioides (L.) Roem. & Schult.: New for West Aegean islands (Polymenakos & Kit Tan in Vladimirov et al. 2018) Capsella grandiflora (Fauché & Chaub.) Boiss. : New for West Aegean islands (Polymenakos & Kit Tan in Vladimirov et al. 2018) Iberis acutiloba Bertol.: New for West Aegean islands (Polymenakos & Kit Tan in Vladimirov et al. 2018) Centaurea orphanidea Heldr. & Sartori ex Boiss. : New for Peloponnisos (Zarkos et al. in Vladimirov et al. 2018) Sulla spinosissima (L.) B.H. Choi & H. Ohashi: New for Peloponnisos (Zarkos et al. in Vladimirov et al. 2018) Silene christodouloui-zarkosii Kit Tan & G. Vold : A new species from Peloponnisos (Nomoi Korinthias and Arkadias) which according to the authors superficially resembles S. guicciardii Boiss. & Heldr. (Zarkos et al. in Vladimirov et al. 2018)
2 Gladiolous anatolicus (Boiss.) Stapf: New record of the species in the Kriti-Karpathos region; found and documented on the Karpathos island by Heinz Kalheber. Buddleja davidii Franch. Only one record in NE; naturalization status is uncertain (Strid pers. Comm.)
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