Ranunculus platanifolius L.

Doumas, Panayiotis, Goula, Katerina & Constantinidis, Theophanis, 2022, Thirty-two new and noteworthy floristic records from north-eastern Greece, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 81817-81817 : 81817

Ranunculus platanifolius L.

Ranunculus platanifolius L. in Mantissa 79 (1767)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: K. Goula & C. Dimadis; Taxon : scientificName: Ranunculus platanifolius; family: Ranunculaceae ; genus: Ranunculus ; specificEpithet: platanifolius; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Grevenon ; verbatimLocality: Mt. Vasilitsa , ca. 1 km on the way to Samarina after (NW of) the junction that connects Samarina-Smixi and Smixi-Vassilitsa ski centre roads; verbatimElevation: 1642 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°03′; verbatimLongitude: 21°05′; Identification: identifiedBy: K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 20 June 2020; habitat: damp meadow in Fagus sylvatica forest, serpentine; Record Level: collectionID: 3135; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

Ranunculus platanifolius is widespread in Europe, but in Greece, it is restricted to a few mountains in the north ( Dimopoulos et al. 2013, Strid et al. 2020). In the floristic region of North Pindos, R. platanifolius has been recorded from the mountains of Timfi, Smolikas and Gramos ( Strid 1986). This locality on Mt. Vasilitsa adds a new mountain massif to the distribution of the species.