Stachys plumosa Griseb., 1844

Shuka, Lulezim & Tan, Kit, 2013, New records for Albania based on taxa from the Prespa National Park, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 1014-1014 : 1014

Stachys plumosa Griseb., 1844

Lamiaceae

Stachy plumosa Griseb., Spicilegium Florae Rumelicae et Bithynicae 2(4):139 (1844). Fig. 12

Stachys plumosa Type:― [F.Y.R. MACEDONIA] inter Komanova et Strazin (substr. trachyt.), Friedrichsthal 447 (GOET).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Prespa area, near the village Cerja and to the NW of Kapshtica village; verbatimElevation: 1170 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°37'N; verbatimLongitude: 21°01'E; Event: eventDate: 6 July 2012; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: near Zagradeci village, Lake Mikri Prespa; verbatimElevation: 880 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°51'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°57'E; Event: eventDate: 13 July 2011; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 5587; recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: northwestern slopes of Ivani Mt; verbatimElevation: 1233 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°44'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°53'E; Event: eventDate: 6 July 2011; Record Level: institutionCode: TIR!

Ecology

Phenology

Flowering at the end of May till mid-June, fruiting in June and July.

Habitat

Stachys plumosa was observed for the first time in Albania near a spring in a serpentine area near the village Zagradeci at Mikri Prespa. It occurs at altitudes between 880 and 1350 m, in dry pastures and rocky places in association with Alkanna pindicola , Buxus sempervirens , Comandra umbellata subsp. elegans, Convolvulus elegantissimus , Dianthus haematocalyx subsp. pindicola, Erodium guicciardii , Fraxinus ornus , Haplophyllum boissieranum , Helichrysum plicatum , Hyssopus officinalis and Ostrya carpinifolia . It was also recently recorded in clearings of Carpinus and Buxus on the limestone slopes of Ivani Mt and near Kapshtica village, close to the border with Greece. ― New for Albania.

Distribution

Stachys plumosa has not yet been reported from Albanian territory, although known from the F.Y.R. Macedonia and Greek parts of the PIP. It is a Balkan endemic with a wide distribution on mainland Greece (northern Greece to S Pindos), W Bulgaria and F.Y.R. Macedonia.