Hesperis theophrasti Borbas , 1902

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

Hesperis theophrasti Borbas, 1902

Brassicaceae

Hesperis theophrasti Borbás in Magyar Botanikai Lapok 1:267 (1902). Fig. 8

Hesperis theophrasti Lectotype designated by Dvořák in Preslia 38: 62 (1996):― [GREECE, S Pindos] Pindus Tymphaeus. In silva ad monaster. Witomo, 15 May 1896, Sintenis 1896:221 (BPU 110036; isolectotypes BPU, BRNM! LD! P, PR! PRC! W!).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Dry Mt; verbatimElevation: 1430 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°49'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°53'E; Event: eventDate: 22 May 2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 3525; recordedBy: F.K. Meyer; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: south of Dry Mt, near village of Shengjergji; verbatimElevation: 1000-1300 m; Event: eventDate: 5 July 1959; Record Level: institutionCode: JE, digital specimen image!

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 5496; recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Ivani Mt; verbatimElevation: 1680 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°44'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°54'E; Event: eventDate: 29 May 2012; Record Level: institutionCode: TIR!

Ecology

Phenology

Flowering from mid-May to early June, fruiting June to July.

Habitat

At altitudes from 1000 m on Dry Mt to nearly 1700 m on Ivani Mt. The species is often found in openings of Fagus or Quercus forest, stony and rocky meadows with shallow soil or in limestone rock crevices. In Fagus forest it occurs together with Cephalanthera longifolia , Iberis sempervirens , Paeonia daurica and Viola kitaibeliana . In the other habitats, it is in association with Acanthus spinosus , Delphinium fissum , Fritillaria graeca subsp. thessala, Hypericum rumeliacum , Prunus prostrata , Prunus webbii , Valeriana montana , Viola eximia and Viola tricolor . ― Confirming Meyer’s report from Albania but outside the National Park.

Distribution

This is Hesperis theophrasti subsp. theophrasti, which occurs mainly in the central part of the Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria and Anatolia ( Parolly and Tan 2006). It was recently reported from Albania ( Meyer 2011) in a locality south of Dry Mt and outside the area of the National Park.