A Willing Contribution Flora Hellenica

A Willing Contribution to Flora Hellenica Field records 2008 - Karditsa, Larisa, Trikala by Eckhard und Rita Willing Dessau January 2009 Published by BGBM Press Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, 2012 ISBN 978-3-921800-75-1 http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wfr2008 © Eckhard & Rita Willing, 2009 The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem as publisher reserves the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. The information provided is based on material identified and named by the authors. The entire collections are preserved in the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin- Dahlem, where the determinations can be reassessed. This publication should be cited as: Willing E. & Willing R. 2009: A Willing contribution to Flora Hellenica. Field records 2008, Karditsa, Larisa, Trikala. – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wfr2008 Address of the authors: Rita und Eckhard Willing Augustenhof 14 D-06842 Dessau-Roßlau Germany [email protected] 1. Introduction As in the previous years we hereby want to report on our plant collecting activities in 2007 and their results. By that we want to inform all partners and contributors to Flora Hellenica on the recently collected plant material and on the visited regions of Greece. The plant collection is now available in Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. This material will hopefully be used for an updating of the published two volumes of Flora Hellenica and for the elaboration of the future volumes. In 2008 we have been from April 6th to May 5th in Central Greece, mainly in the prefectures of Trikala, Karditsa, and Larisa, with few excursions to Grevena, Kozanis, Fthiotis and Magnisia. It was our idea to have a first look at the spring-time flora in Larisa and the Plane of Thessaly and by that to blacken a little bit some white areas in most published distribution-maps. We started in the plane of Karditsa - from the north-eastern slopes of South Pindus to the mountains of Titanos (693 m) and Fyllion Oros (533 m), the natural border between Karditsa and Larisa. The plane is mostly used for agriculture and pastures, traversed by drainage ditches. Only a few lower stony hills may be found, most of them surroundend by agricultural sites and diffcult to access but nevertheless overgrazed by sheep and goats. Therefore the most visited biotopes have been herbaceous areas between roads and cropfields or pastures, along drainage ditches and embankments. Oakwoods, pinewoods, deciduous trees are rare. In consequence, the flora ist very homogeneous, not rich of specialities and not interesting for professional botanists. But mayby the collection contains some minor varieties for splitting experts. The most time we stayed in the plane of Larisa (Thessaly) with some excursions to the valley of Xirolakkos between Higher and Lower Olympos, to the northern and southern slopes of Lower Olympos, to the southern and western slopes of Ossa and Mavrovouni in the North-East and to the hills around Farsala and Domokos in the South. Fig. 1: Localities visited in year 2008, general survey The real flat area (60-90 m) is relative small, mostly from Larisa to the South east and along the river to the North. Only some 10-20 km to the west, south, east and north of Larisa the plane is replaced by hilly structures. The top and the most slopes of these hills are used agricultury, but there are a lot of slopes unused, some of them stony with smaller Oak- and Pine-woods and most of them not or less grazed. 3 In contrary to the plane of Karditsa even the agricultural areas look very colourfull. The reason is, that nearly all roads have a 2 - 4 m broad strip between road and crop-fields not used and not very much influenced by agricultural chemicals. It looks like an official program to save by these strips the original nature between traffic and food production. Visited localities and their allocation to the road-net are shown in the following map: Fig. 2: Localities visited in year 2008, closer look 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0-50 55- 105- 155- 205- 255- 305- 405- 505- 605- 705- 805- 905- 1005- 100 150 200 250 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1105 Fig. 3: Vertical distribution of localities visited in spring 2008 Number of visited localities on heigth (m) Because of the rich and various structure of the landscape and its biotopes it seems to be absolutely appropriate and necessary nto revisit the same area four to six weeks later and in autumn. This may be very clear from the following table. 10 x 10 km-squares of UTM-squares EK, FK, EJ and FJ contain the number of species collected by us. All squares with less than 250 species have been 4 visited one time only. Squares like EJ 39 (surrounding of Kastanea in South Pindus) with 640 species have been visited 2 or three times. K E 3 E 4 E 5 E 6 E 7 E 8 E 9 F 0 F 1 F 2 F 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 K 7 134 295 7 80 0 103 183 189 77 24 0 K 6 100 173 57 51 97 104 63 102 2 0 97 K 5 10 168 102 50 99 149 207 160 150 1 87 K 4 248 99 141 16 137 186 53 218 34 66 108 K 3 286 245 80 0 31 27697 236 0 37 132 K 2 233 223 140 404 253 175 195 274 188 166 106 88 K 1 46 102 71 327 123 99 247 74 139 237 149 129 110 K 0 326 228 104 104 65 165 238 115 218 168 181 30 137 J 9 640 310 206 214 76 68 145 76 74 193 153 211 183 52 J 8 180 240 120 201 162 160 85 110 153 154 118 135 167 88 J 7 304 333 256 121 92 87 163 163 65 115 163 114 101 133 J 6 226 379 318 266 182 101 98 1 31 95 117 136 94 159 270 254 135 J 5 0 76 521 356 186 110 146 3 0 91 178 134 266 135 161 220 186 36 J 4 0 0 1023 08 248 276 199 9 6 171 200 43 253 192 7 88 J 3 4 131 0 0 168256 256 176 227 120 132 192 227 44 J 2 116 221 33 155 323 213 0 46 92 63 7 0 195 74 J 1 143 190 443 366 466 77 118 120 132 211 67 138 157 240 J 0 116 117 246 562 498 209 162 298 66 121 201 187 166 J E 3 E 4 E 5 E 6 E 7 E 8 E 9 F 0 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 F 8 Fig. 4: Number of species collected by us in the 10 x 10 km UTM-squares EK, FK, EJ and FJ. Red numbers: prefecture Larisa, blue numbers: prefecture Karditsa A still existing problem is the illegal and uncontrolled disposal of waste less in Larisa, much ore in Karditsa and Trikala. It is not allways used tyres as shown in the following picture, but mostly 5 bulky waste, especially from construction and demolition that is disposed at places not suitable for agricultural or other economical use. 23.4.08 SW Farsala We have planned our daily collection on base of 10 x 10 km-UTM-squares. Within these we selected typical topographical sites and biotopes and tried to collect all species flowering and fruiting as far as they had been seen and identified by us. At second and third collection points within the same square we tried to avoid doublings. All plants have been collected by Rita & Eckhard Willing. As in the past years we used 6 presses each of them calculated for approximately 50 plants, this means an overall capacity of 300 plants per day. Actually we collected on 19 (of 28) days between 330 and 360 plants. For optimal use of the available capacity of the six presses we had to place in each press between 8 and 12 times two plants between the corrugated cardboard instead of the normal 1 plant. This did not cause any qualitative problem. The reason is that we optimised again the used combination of C-line (3,2-3,9 mm) and B-line (2,2-3,0 mm) corrugated cardboard. Over night we used a continuous change of B- and C-line corrugated board. The drying result over night was such good, that the remaining number of slightly wet plants in the morning had been approximately 30-50 specimen only. After rainy days, having collected really wet plants, the remaining number of slightly wet plants could increase up to 100 plants. To replace dried material it is necessary to open the presses in the morning, to select dried plants, to remove tissue material for example from big-flowering Verbascum and in some cases to turn plants by 180 °. Time consumption for the morning inspection is in the range of 12-15 minutes for each press. The drier the plants the less time is needed for controll. For the further drying it is absolutely necessary to use a different combination of corrugated board using 2 B-line followed by 1 C-line and, additionally taking out one of the four infra-red lamps.

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