A Willing Contribution to Flora Hellenica Field records 2004 by Dr. Rita Willing Dr. Eckhard Willing Dessau December 2004 Published by BGBM Press Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, 2012 ISBN 978-3-921800-79-9 http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wfr2004 © Eckhard & Rita Willing, 2004 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 publications should cited as: Willing R. & Willing E. 2004: A Willing contribution to Flora Hellenica. Field records 2004. – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wfr2004 Address of the authors: Rita und Eckhard Willing Augustenhof 14 D-06842 Dessau-Roßlau Germany [email protected] 2 1. Introduction As in the previous years we hereby want to report on our plant collecting activities in 2004 and their results. By that we want to inform all partners and contributors to Flora Hellenica what additional plant material from which regions of Greece 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 2004 we have been able to stay 29 days in Greece from April 30th to May 28th. After careful study of our own field records and the distribution maps published in the 1st volume of Flora Hellenica we concentrated on those low and middle altitude areas between the mountains of Gramos, Vernon, Voras, Vermion and Paikon close to the border to Albania and Macedonia, mainly in the Nomi of Kastoria, Florina, Pella and Kilkis. These regions seemed to be undervisited and undercollected hitherto. Localities of our collection are shown in the following map. 303 localities have been visited, 105 of them below 500 m, 101 between 500 and 700 m, 73 between 70 and 100 m and 24 above 1000 m. In consequence more than 40 % of visited localities have been farmland and surrounding biotopes. As in the previous years 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. March and April 2004 must have been very rainy in Northern Greece. May 2004 was characterized by moderate temperatures, between 12 and 16,5 °C in the morning and 22-28 °C maximum, the most days slightly cloudy and very sunny, only very few days rainy but with a lot of raining over night. Thus the conditions even on stony and eroded hillsides have been extremely good, all biotopes have been green and colourful from the broad range of well- developed plants. On many days we had to stop collecting in the mid afternoon because our presses had been overfilled. 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 3 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 board 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 board. 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. These measures are necessary to avoid negative high temperatures. Using this technique quality and especially colour of dried plants, even if they filled the whole paper surface, has been astonishing even. It has proved positively to underlay and to cover the flowers of some species like Papaver, Glaucium, Helianthemum, Verbascum, Linum with one line of tissue. These tissues should be removed after 8-10 hours drying (not really necessary for Papaver and Rosa). All plants are mounted labelled and, as far as possible, determined by ourselves. The labels contain the following informations: Sheet-No.: Family: Species: State, Nomos, Locality, Date Biotope, Altitude Short-cut of Locality, UTM, Greenwich Collectors: Sheet-Numbers of this Locality The determination helps us very much to improve the collection process. Though we are no botanists we try to determine the plants at least until level of genus including all failures an amateur is able to do. We hope to minimize determination mistakes as far as possible and hope that all users will excuse our poor knowledge. For our own quality control it is very important that our plant sheet will be gone through, confirmed or corrected by specialists. Determined species are added to our access data-base and finally delivered to the herbarium of the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. Here they are waiting for the neccessary scientific assessment. 4 2. Localities GR, Ioannina, O Eleousa, 30.04.04 Ioa 796 123.388-123.442 Ackerrand, Maisfeld, Krautfluren, 465 m DJ 89.26.13, 39°42'59''N, 20°47'30''E GR, Ioannina, NW Eleousa, 30.04.04 Ioa 797 123.443-123.463 Phrygana, Krautfluren, Straßenrand, 400 m DJ 89.38.15, 39°44'13''N, 20°48'11''E GR, Ioannina, SO Perivleptos, 30.04.04 Ioa 798 123.464-123.525 Ackerrand, Acker, 470 m DK 80.00.49, 39°45'29''N, 20°46'16''E GR, Ioannina, N Nikanor, 01.05.04 Ioa 799 123.526-123.620 Q.coccifera-Gebüsch, Krautfluren, 520 m DK 84.12.40, 40°07'43''N, 20°46'57''E GR, Ioannina, SO Pirgos, 01.05.04 Ioa 800 123.621-123.646 Laubwald, Krautfluren, Straßenrand, 500 m DK 84.34.76, 40°09'07''N, 20°48'32''E GR, Ioannina, SO Pirsojianni, 01.05.04 Ioa 801 123.647-123.696 Laubbuschwald, Krautfluren, 620 m DK 85.42.83, 40°13'16''N, 20°49'21''E GR, Ioannina, SO Vourmbiani, 01.05.04 Ioa 802 123.697-123.711 Felswand, Schutt, Krautfluren, 600 m DK 85.52.16, 40°13'26''N, 20°49'31''E GR, Ioannina, SO Plajia, 01.05.04 Ioa 803 123.712-123.770 Krautfluren, felsig, 755 m DK 95.62.34, 40°13'20''N, 20°57'25''E GR, Ioannina, SO Eptahori, 01.05.04 Ioa 8 04 123.771-123.789 Wasserüberlaufene Felswand, nasser Graben, 1055 m EK 05.32.33, 40°13'17''N, 21°02'23''E GR, Kozanis, O Pendalofo, 01.05.04 Koz 172 123.790-123.817 Felswand, Krautfluren, Schutthang, 800 m EK 14.49.35, 40°11'47''N, 21°10'05''E GR, Kozanis, O Morfi, 01.05.04 Koz 173 123.818-123.838 Eichenwald, Ackerrand, 760 m EK 15.82.60, 40°13'05''N, 21°13'09''E GR, Kastoria, O Dhispilio, 02.05.04 Kas 172 123.839-123.936 Ruderalfluren, Krautfluren, 640 m EK 28.61.64, 40°28'59''N, 21°18'49''E GR, Kastoria, O Dhispilio, 02.05.04 Kas 173 123.937-123.959 Ackerrand, Krautfluren, 620 m EK 28.72.10, 40°29'19''N, 21°19'11''E GR, Kastoria, S Mavrohori, 02.05.04 Kas 174 123.960-123.973 Krautfluren am See, Wassergraben, 620 m EK 28.74.30, 40°30'23''N, 21°19'21''E 5 GR, Kastoria, Polikarpi, 02.05.04 Kas 175 123.974-123.984 Krautfluren am See, 625 m EK 28.76.47, 40°31'53''N, 21°19'26''E GR, Kastoria, SW Fotini, 02.05.04 Kas 176 123.985-123.991 Krautfluren am See unter Felshängen, 625 m EK 28.88.04, 40°32'46''N, 21°19'52''E GR, Kastoria, S Metamorfosis, 02.05.04 Kas 177 123.992-124.004 Felsige Krautfluren, Bach, 635 m EK 28.69.81, 40°33'10''N, 21°19'01''E GR, Kastoria, SO Tihio, 02.05.04 Kas 178 124.005-124.055 Sumpfwiese, Krautfluren, Straßenrand, 640 m EK 29.50.81, 40°33'41''N, 21°18'17''E GR, Kastoria, SW Tihio, 02.05.04 Kas 179 124.056-124.097 Krautfluren, Eichengebüsch, Acker, Straßenrand, 640 m EK 29.30.64, 40°33'53''N, 21°16'44''E GR, Kastoria, SW Tihio, 02.05.04 Kas 180 124.098-124.117 Felsanriss, buschreicher Straßenrand, 650 m EK 29.30.79, 40°34'09''N, 21°16'50''E GR, Kastoria, N Kastoria, 02.05.04 Kas 181 124.118-124.139 Ackerrand, Straßenrand, Krautfluren, 630 m EK 28.29.91, 40°33'09''N, 21°16'14''E GR, Kastoria, SW Kastoria, 03.05.04 Kas 182 124.140-124.176 Ruderalfluren, Krautfluren, buschreicher, felsiger Hügel, 650 m EK 28.14.30, 40°30'23''N, 21°15'08''E GR, Kastoria, SO Lefki, 03.05.04 Kas 183 124.177-124.228 Krautfluren, Ruderalfluren, 630 m EK 18.83.83, 40°30'03''N, 21°13'19''E GR, Kastoria, NW Lefki, 03.05.04 Kas 184 124.229-124.252 Ackerrand, Straßenrand, 680 m EK 18.73.06, 40°30'11''N, 21°12'06''E GR, Kastoria, SO Mesopotamia, 03.05.04 Kas 185 124.253-124.276 Weidengrund, Weidesteppe, 660 m EK 18.52.14, 40°29'31''N, 21°10'42''E GR, Kastoria, SO Mesopotamia, 03.05.04 Kas 186 124.277-124.292 Krautiger Salix-Wald, 640 m EK 18.45.40, 40°30'59''N, 21°10'13''E GR, Kastoria, N Mesopotamia, 03.05.04 Kas 187 124.293-124.299 Ackerrand, 670 m EK 18.24.67, 40°30'47''N, 21°08'58''E GR, Kastoria, SO Aj.